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Grand Slam champion Emma Raducanu will compete in this year’s Transylvania Open WTA 250, the tennis tournament held in Cluj-Napoca, in western Romania, the organizers announced. The British tennis player with Romanian roots will compete in the Cluj event for a second time. The main draw will also feature Romanian players Sorana Cîrstea, Jaqueline Cristian,…

President Nicușor Dan published the recording of the conversation between the Zurich control tower and the pilot of the Spartan aircraft that brought him from Paris to Bucharest on Thursday, January 8. The recording was released after critics questioned whether the F-18 fighter jet escort over Switzerland was really a sign of gratitude for the…

The Bucharest office real estate market is set for a recovery in 2026, with developers expected to deliver more than 100,000 sqm of modern office space after two years of near-standstill, according to data cited by Ziarul Financiar, reported on January 9. Vastint, PPF Real Estate, and One United Properties are planning to complete new…

The Bucharest Stock Exchange entered 2026 on the same trend it ended last year, with rapid stock appreciation and new historical highs, in a context in which fiscal changes did not temper risk appetite, and investors seem to have returned to the market after marking profits at the end of 2025, Ziarul Financiar reported. In…

Romanian telecommunications operator Digi Communications (BVB: DIGI) remained the leading player in Spain’s mobile market by net customer gains through number portability in 2025, marking its fifth consecutive year at the top, according to an analysis by Profit reported on January 8. Digi Spain recorded a net gain of almost one million mobile lines last…

The number of employees in Romanian public institutions and authorities decreased by some 25,000 since the Government of Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan took office, according to data published by Profit and confirmed by the Ministry of Finance.  While 21,685 positions were eliminated from the central administration, institutions controlled by the Government, thus reaching 815,556, 3,348…

The Justice Ministry has begun the process to select the country’s prosecutor general, as well as the prosecutors and deputy prosecutors who will lead the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) and the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), Hotnews.ro reported. The mandates of Alex Florența, the prosecutor general, and of Marius Voineag, the head…

Romania could acquire H225M Caracal helicopters from Airbus, but it is not clear whether they will be assembled in the country, according to French publication Zone Militaire. France and Romania have longstanding ties in defence, and the purchase would confirm the relationship. Airbus Helicopters and Aeronautica Română, or IAR, established ties in the 1970s, when…

Romanian deep-tech company .lumen has won the CTA Foundation Pitch Competition for Accessibility at CES 2026, receiving an award of USD 10,000. The award recognizes lumen’s glasses for the blind, an AI-powered wearable that applies self-driving technology to the pedestrian world. Using real-time computer vision, spatial perception, and on-device AI, the system understands 3D space…

The Romanian branch of the Greek group Public Power Corporation, or PPC, plans to build a battery energy storage system for electricity produced from renewable sources at its transformer station in Căciulați (Ilfov). This is part of the company’s plan to install storage facilities in the distribution networks it operates in Romania. The new electricity…