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The Romanian Parliament approved a draft law that increases the amount of punishment for unauthorized operations with pyrotechnic articles on Wednesday, May 7. Initiators of the bill say that every winter hundreds are injured due to firecrackers, most of them children. Mihai Weber, the Social-Democratic Party ()PSD) member of Parliament who initiated the bill, says…

OMV Petrom, a major energy provider in Romania, announced the opening of the largest electric vehicle charging hub in Romania on the A1 motorway, at Miercurea Sibiului. It features a total of 34 fast-charging points: 17 in each direction, 16 for electric cars and 18 for electric trucks. The charging stations are high-capacity: each charger…

The Romanian airline Dan Air recently announced that it will begin operating regular flights to Damascus from cities such as Bucharest, Frankfurt, Berlin, and Stockholm. The company is the only one from the European Union currently operating commercial flights to Syria. The flights will begin on June 15, and tickets are already available. The routes…

Dagmara Chudzińska-Matysiak has been appointed country manager of recruitment firm Randstad Romania beginning May 2025. This marks “a new phase in the evolution of the local business toward delivering specialized, digital-first talent solutions aligned with local environment needs and global strategy,” the company said. She brings over two decades of experience at Randstad Poland, where…

This year’s edition of the Night of the Nightingales will feature a charity concert performed by violinist Alexandru Tomescu, the bird conservation non-profit Romanian Ornithological Society (SOR) announced. The funds raised from donations will be used to support SOR’s educational projects. The event takes place in the dendrological park and botanical garden on the campus…

Romania’s Ministry of Internal Affairs recently announced that the new, smaller Electronic Identity Card is available in Brașov, Constanța, Iași, Oradea, Ploiești, and Timișoara. “Starting tomorrow, May 8, 2025, at 10:00 AM, the Electronic Identity Card will also become available to citizens over the age of 14 with domicile in the municipalities of Brașov, Constanța,…

Since the interim Government that manages the public administration in Romania after the resignation of PM Marcel Ciolacu is not entitled by the law to endorse emergency ordinances, the restrictive fiscal package expected by the European Commission under the Excessive Procedure (EPD) cannot be passed by the Romanian authorities. For this reason, the European Commission…

Oradea Airport inaugurated its new cargo terminal on May 6 with the arrival of the first dedicated cargo flight, signaling the facility’s ambitions to become a key logistics hub in western Romania, eBihoreanul.ro reported. The flight, operated by Turkish carrier MNG Airlines using an Airbus A321-200P2F, arrived from Istanbul and carried parcels for customers of…

Swiss industrial real estate developer Artemis Group announced that it had started construction on a EUR 8 million factory for window and door manufacturer Mondo Style, according to Ziarul Financiar. The factory is being developed in the Sânandrei industrial park in Timiş County. “We have obtained authorization for a new industrial investment in Sânandrei. The…

Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze, a cable manufacturer for the automotive industry, will lay off 676 of its 1,712 employees at its factory in southern Romania (Drobeta Turnu Severin), according to the regional labor bureau AJOFM quoted by Economica.  The move is in line with the group’s shrinking workforce in Romania and Bulgaria, where it closed a…