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Romanian swimmer David Popovici has won the 100m freestyle race at the European Aquatics Championships in Paris, his third consecutive European title in this event after wins in Rome (2022) and Belgrade (2024). The 21-year-old world and Olympic champion clocked in a time of 46.56, a new championship record, 0.16 off the record he had…

The plenary of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies adopted on Wednesday, August 12, a bill establishing the mechanism for the negotiation, approval and conclusion of transactions by the state.  According to the new regulations, transactions concerning immovable property belonging to the state with a value greater than RON 500,000 (EUR 95,000) will have to be…

Romania’s Environment Ministry has exceeded the targets assumed through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) for afforestation, reforestation, urban forests and the development of capacities for producing forest reproductive material, according to a press release. At the national level, 20,716 hectares of afforested and reforested land have final acceptance reports and have been verified by…

Bucharest’s office market is seeing a recovery in occupier demand driven by new lease transactions and expansions, against a backdrop of limited new supply. Net take-up accounted for 73% of the total leasing activity in H1 2026, up from 53% during the same period of 2025, according to the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox Marketbeat Office…

Cultivators of Life: Growing Seedbeds of Knowledge, an artistic research and production program carried out by tranzit.ro/Bucharest in partnership with the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts in Debrecen (MODEM), will be on view at MODEM starting September 5. The project brings together artists, researchers and practitioners in an exhibition “that explores the garden as…

Romanians will be able to travel directly to the People’s Republic of China starting on September 4, after the official inauguration of the air route between Beijing and Bucharest, operated by Air China, according to an official press release published on Tuesday, August 11. The new round-trip air route operated by Air China, connecting Beijing…

Franțuzisme, a Romanian artisanal dessert brand founded by Cătălina Clément, is launching following a EUR 66,000 investment made through the Bucharest-Ilfov Regional Program 2021–2027. The investment covered the fit-out of the pastry workshop, the acquisition of professional equipment and the development of the brand. The project functions as a social enterprise. The founder trained in…

Romanians are among the least wanted immigrants in the United Kingdom, according to a YouGov survey published on Monday, August 10.  Roughly 47% of respondents in the survey said that they would like to see fewer immigrants from Romania, down from 51% in 2016. Still, the figure placed Romanians in fifth place, tied with immigrants…

Two Gerbera-type drones were destroyed on Tuesday, August 11, by divers of the Romanian Army in the exclusive economic zone, approximately 90 nautical miles (around 165 kilometers) from Constanța, in the Neptun Deep exploitation area, according to interim defence minister Radu Miruță.  The drones were observed around 8 AM by one of the vessels carrying…

The annual inflation rate in Romania fell by 2.2% for the first time in the last twelve months and reached 8.2% in July, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics.  In June 2026, the annual inflation rate had fallen slightly, to 10.4%. In May 2026, the rate was 10.9%, after the indicator had…