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Director Cristian Mungiu, this year’s winner of the Palme d’Or for Fjord, is a guest of the Festival La Rochelle Cinema (FEMA), which will present a retrospective covering his complete filmography, from Occident to R.M.N.. The filmmaker returns to La Rochelle nearly twenty years after winning his first Palme d’Or for 4 Months, 3 Weeks…

Romania is in the final stages of closing its old orphanages, a process which began in the 1990s, when more than 100,000 children were living in such institutions.  At this moment, there are only 7 such centers still operating in the country, housing 165 children, after nearly three decades of reforms in the child protection…

Romania’s David Popovici met Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, June 25, in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace in Rome during an event that included the Italian Swimming Federation and the participants in the 62nd edition of the Sette Colli Trophy competition. When he arrived in front of the Pope, David exchanged a few…

Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), held every year in Cluj-Napoca, will screen a selection of films from this year’s program in Bucharest. The public in Bucharest can see Carlos Saiz’s Lionel, the winner of the Transilvania Trophy, alongside György Pálfi’s unconventional feature Hen, one of the audience favorites at the Cluj festival. The selection also…

North Bucharest Investments has been awarded the “Investment Champion of the Year” distinction at the EBL Summit – Access to Capital, recognizing the company’s outstanding performance and its contribution to building a business model centered on specialized advisory services, technology, and innovation in the residential real estate sector. The award comes at a time of…

The National Liberal Party (PNL), the Save Romania Union Party (USR), and the minority Hungarian party UDMR put forward Liberal member of the European Parliament Siegfriend Mureșan as prime minister of Romania after meetings held on Friday, June 26.  According to a PNL press release, the proposal aims to meet several urgent problems facing the…

Emilia Dumitrescu has been appointed managing director of the Deloitte Technology Delivery Center, which provides IT services to Deloitte clients across EMEA and other regions. She has also been promoted to Deloitte Partner and succeeds Marcus Williamson, Partner, Deloitte UK, upon the completion of his three-and-a-half-year mandate. She has been part of the center since…

The international movement of highly skilled professionals fell sharply in 2025, with cross-border relocations dropping from 3.7 million to 3.3 million, a decline of 11.6% and roughly 430,000 fewer movers than the year prior, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) said in its latest talent survey. Romania performed the worst among Central and Eastern European countries in…

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) announced on Wednesday, June 24, that it had filed an indictment against the president and the vice-president of a Romanian association, following an investigation into six Erasmus+ projects. The body led by Romanian prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi noted that the defendants submitted false documentation to divert funds that were…

Romanian president Nicuşor Dan said during a press conference in Poland that “it is important to have a government as soon as possible, preferably by next Tuesday (June 20).” This is because of the tight calendar of the recovery and resilience plan PNRR, with the reforms having to be met by the end of August,…