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Foundation Conservation Carpathia, which has been working since 2009 on the long-term goal of establishing a world-class nature reserve in Romania’s Făgăraş Mountains, is looking to reintroduce the vulture in a bid that is meant to benefit both the ecosystem and the local communities. Meanwhile, it moving forward with constructing the ecotourism infrastructure needed for…

Roughly 4,000 troops and 913 military vehicles from ten NATO countries will take part in the multinational exercise Dacian Spring 2025 (DASP 25), scheduled to take place in Romania between May 5 and 23. The participating countries include Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Spain. The exercise is planned and…

Award-winning films or selections from the most important festivals of 2024-2025 will be shown in premiere in Romania at the 24th edition of the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in Cluj-Napoca between June 13 and 22. Some of the productions were shown at festivals like the ones in Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Venice, San Sebastian, Sundance,…

Romania had in 2024 the highest share of emigrants among EU states, with 24% or 4.6 million people living abroad, as well as one of the highest volumes of remittances relative to GDP, namely 2.8% in 2023, according to an analysis by Alpha Bank. Romanians who left the country sent back around RON 13 billion…

George Simion, the leader of far-right party Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) and Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan, who is running as an independent, are the main favorites to win the upcoming presidential election, according to an IRSOP poll. George Simion would be voted by 31% of Romanians, while Nicușor Dan would receive 28%…

The third edition of the LYNX Festival, Romania’s first event dedicated exclusively to nature documentaries and photography, will open on June 4 in Brașov with the Romanian premiere of Europe – One Continent, Five Worlds, a sweeping nature series filmed over more than 1,000 days across 30 countries. The festival will run from June 4…

The Chinese car company with the largest international presence, Chery, will officially begin selling cars on the Romanian market this year, Profit.ro reported. Its local catalog is to include the Tiggo 8 SUV, the first model officially approved in the European Union, which will soon be followed by two other SUVs, Tiggo 7 and the smallest…

Independent candidate and Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan, who is credited with a real chance to reach the run-off round of the presidential elections in Romania, said on Tuesday, April 15, that his official Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok accounts were under attack. According to the mayor, thousands of new followers and positive comments have appeared in…

The Holy Light will be brought from Jerusalem to Bucharest on the evening of Saturday, April 19, and then distributed to other areas of the country, according to a press release published by Basilica.ro. The Easter Holy Light will be brought from Jerusalem by Archimandrite Teofil Anăstăsoaie, the representative of the Romanian Patriarchate at the…

Crin Antonescu, the presidential candidate of the PSD-PNL-UDMR governing coalition, denied being a collaborator of the communist-era political police, the Securitate, in a press conference on Tuesday, April 15. The conference was called after the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS) announced that, in 1988, Antonescu gave a statement to the…