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Dacia Foundation for Romania (FDpR), an autonomous non-profit organization sponsored by carmaker Dacia, announced the winners of the second edition of the “Mobilitatea contează” (“Mobility Matters”) grant program, which had a budget of up to EUR 1 million for projects that facilitate access to education, the labor market, and culture. In total, 28 non-governmental organizations…

From healthcare financing in 2027 and hospital modernisation to access to medicines and crisis preparedness, the transformation of the healthcare system highlights the need for predictable resources, more effective services and better coordination between institutions. For patients, the stakes are tangible: more accessible care, timely access to treatment and continuity of healthcare services when they…

Four in ten Romanians (37.8%) cannot afford an unexpected financial expense, according to Eurostat data published on Sunday, October 11, for the year 2025. Romania had the fifth-highest share of citizens who could not face unexpected expenses if necessary in the EU, after Greece (50.5%), Latvia (43.7%), Bulgaria (42.4%) and Lithuania (41.1% – provisional data).…

VoicePatrol, a startup that developed an AI-powered voice moderation technology enabling gaming studios to detect and address extreme voice-chat toxicity, has raised USD 3.4 million in an investment led by GapMinder, a venture capital firm investing in technology startups from Romania and Eastern Europe. The VC is investing alongside Impact Ventures, Ollin Ventures, and The…

The General Prosecutor’s Office announced on Monday, October 12, that it indicted 16 Russians for using forged citizenship certificates to obtain Romanian identity documents. The defendants, citizens of the Russian Federation, repeatedly used false citizenship certificates that falsely attested to their status as Romanian citizens to obtain Romanian identity documents, according to the authorities. Specifically,…

Gregory Meeks, the leading Democrat on the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, officially requested on September 30 that the State Department, led by secretary Marco Rubio, confirm whether the US government was involved in the fall of the Ilie Bolojan government in Romania. The congressman’s letter is only the latest episode in the scandal surrounding…

Romania ranked fourth among the European countries with the lowest housing prices in 2025, behind Turkey, Serbia, and Albania, according to Deloitte’s Property Index 2026. The national average reached EUR 1,917 per sqm, up 14.4% year-on-year. This was the largest increase among the countries analysed, followed by Croatia at 14.3%, Slovakia at 12.5%, and Hungary…

When the non-profit Tășuleasa Social launched the project of Via Transilvanica, it was looking at a ten-year time frame to have the first long-distance trail in the country completed. Instead, the trail was inaugurated in 2022, after four years of work involving local communities and over 10,000 volunteers. It was in keeping with the project’s…

An exhibition featuring 33 rare photographs taken by Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși will open at Pavilion Art 360 in Târgu Jiu on October 22. Titled Brâncuși. Photography. The Invisible Studio, it will remain open until December 16. Presented in Târgu Jiu for the first time, the photographs come from the collection of British collector David…

Dacia, the Romanian car brand owned since 1999 by Renault, unveiled new-generation car models at the Paris Motor Show, which is taking place from October 12 to 18. Two models, the second generation of the electric Spring and the Striker, a C-segment crossover, were presented for the first time globally, according to Economedia. Second-generation Spring…