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Anul Nou Care N-a Fost/The New Year That Never Came, directed by Bogdan Mureșanu, was the big winner at the 2025 Gopo Awards, Romania’s top film honors. The event took place Tuesday night, April 29, at the National Theatre in Bucharest, celebrating the best in Romanian cinema from the past year. Bogdan Mureșanu’s film won…

Dacia is the most valuable Romanian brand, despite a 5% decrease in brand value, according to a new report by Brand Finance. The car maker’s brand has a value of EUR 1.1 billion. In second place is electronics and goods marketplace eMAG, which recovered after two consecutive years of decline, with an 8% increase in brand…

Romania’s Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP), in collaboration with the Romanian Association of the Blind, organized on April 29 a simulation of the voting process for the first round of the 2025 presidential elections, specifically designed for people with visual impairments. The test focused on a special ballot template developed by AEP that enables visually impaired…

An engineering consortium led by Romanian group Enevo announced that it has delivered to Danish Eurowind a positioning solar park with a capacity of 69 MW in Teius, Alba County (central Romania) under a EUR 24.3 million engineering, procurement, and construction contract that also included a 110/20 kV station and an 80 MVA transformer. The…

The yields paid by Romania’s Treasury on the bonds sold to households under the Fidelis issue (bonds not listed at the Bucharest Exchange but with a put option) increased again in the May issue after they had declined for two consecutive months in March and April from a peak level reached in February. The Treasury…

Interim president Ilie Bolojan emphasized connectivity and energy as Romania’s main priorities during his statement at the end of the Three Seas Initiative Summit, held this week in Warsaw, Poland. Speaking to the press, the Romanian leader highlighted the progress made over the past decade to bridge the development gap between Central and Eastern Europe…

Romania’s state-controlled hydropower group Hidroelectrica (BVB: H2O), in a Q1 operational update published on April 29, announced that its gross electricity output plunged by 38% y/y to 2.735 GWh in the first three months of the year. The note was published after the trading session, where the company’s shares rose by 1.25%.  On the same…

The Romanian subsidiary of the French utility group Engie announced that it completed the acquisition of a 54 MW ready-to-build wind project in Mereni, Constanța County, on April 29. The project, located in a region known for strong wind resources, comes with all necessary permits, allowing construction to begin later this year. Commissioning is expected…

  The company ended 2024 with €27.5 million in revenue and projects a further 15% growth in 2025. Major investments planned for the coming years, focusing on enhanced customer experience through automation, digitalization, portfolio expansion, international growth, and sustainability. From Romania to Western Europe: local production, international expansion. METIGLA, one of the leading manufacturers of…

Poenari Fortress, also known as Vlad the Impaler’s Fortress and one of the most popular tourist attractions in Argeș County, has been temporarily closed after a bear broke through the electric fence and entered the tourist access area on Monday, April 28, the county authorities announced.  The fortress, which attracts over 100,000 visitors each year,…