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Developer Skanska announced on Wednesday, January 28, that it sold the second building of the Equilibrium office complex in Bucharest to Magyar Posta Takarék Real Estate Investment Fund (MPTIA), a public real estate fund managed by Gránit Asset Management. The deal comes roughly a year after Gránit also purchased Equilibrium 1 in April 2025 for…

Lolita Cercel, a singer created with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), has gotten traction on Romanian social media in recent weeks. Still, her success has attracted criticism from artists and Roma activists.  Cercel’s seven songs gathered millions of views in around a month, and her look has received praise on Romanian TikTok. Her persona…

Romanian military personnel discovered a naval mine washed ashore on a beach near the Midia firing range on Wednesday morning, January 28, the Ministry of National Defense (MApN) said. A team of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) divers from the 39th Divers Center has been deployed to identify and neutralise the device. The mine was found…

The European Commission, the executive branch of the EU, is still collecting “facts and data from all parties involved” in Romania’s cancelled 2024 presidential elections. The Commission originally opened the investigation into TikTok’s interference in the elections, and forced the platform to make some changes. The investigation is now more than a year old, and…

A new Obesity Management Center is to be set up within the “C.I. Parhon” National Institute of Endocrinology in Bucharest, health minister Alexandru Rogobete announced. According to him, the new facility will be dedicated to patients who require a structured, long-term medical approach to obesity. “Obesity is one of the most serious medical challenges of…

Romanian business confidence has deteriorated sharply, with the latest CONFIDEX index pointing to a growing sense of caution across the private sector, according to a new survey released on Tuesday, January 27. The CONFIDEX index fell to 47.2 from 51.3 in the previous edition, marking the largest single-edition decline since the study was launched in…

RoPower Nuclear, the company developing the first small modular reactor (or SMR) power plant in Romania, has joined the American Nuclear Society, or ANS. The society is 72 years old and reunites renowned companies in the nuclear field, and acts as a hub of expertise made up of 12,000 nuclear engineers, researchers, scientists, as well…

Romanian prime minister Ilie Bolojan said he would vote in favour of unification with the Republic of Moldova if such a referendum were held, expressing solidarity with the neighbouring country amid renewed public discussion on the issue. In an interview with RFI, Bolojan was asked to comment on a recent statement by Moldovan president Maia…

Eurostat data show that, in 2024, only 28.1% of adults aged 25 to 64 in the European Union participated in education and training in the last 12 months, up 3.1 percentage points compared to 2022, Ziarul Financiar reported. Romania is in the group of states where all regions are below the EU average, along with…

Romania is assessing whether the mandate envisaged for the Board of Peace could extend beyond the mission assigned by the United Nations to manage the Gaza Strip settlement, foreign minister Oana Țoiu said, cited by Hotnews.ro. The assessment also covers political and geostrategic dimensions, she added. “The analysis does not only have a legal component;…