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Romania’s Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday, February 11, that the office of the President of Romania will become vacant on February 12, following the resignation of Klaus-Werner Iohannis. The Court’s decision states that the vacancy of the presidential office constitutes grounds for interim leadership, effective February 12, 2025. As a result of the resignation, Senate…

Former US ambassador to Bucharest Mark Gitenstein claimed in a recent article that “there is substantial evidence that Russian intelligence services interfered in Romania’s elections.” The claim was made in an opinion piece for the EUObserver titled “Romania’s agony.” In it, Gitenstein states that Russian intelligence agencies intervened in Romania’s November 2024 presidential elections to…

People with hearing impairments will be able to test the innovative Rhythm Touch, which transforms sound into vibrations perceived on the skin, at the Florin Piersic Cinema Theatre in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in February.  Rhythm Touch is one of the startups supported by Transilvania IT Cluster from its early stages. Before it became a startup, it…

Local authorities in the mountain city of Brașov have launched the procurement process for the installation of 80 electric vehicle charging stations, a project backed by non-reimbursable funds from the Environmental Fund Administration. The project is worth RON 4.7 million. Brașov liberal mayor George Scripcaru noted that the city pioneered the public transport system’s transition…

Food waste prevention app Bonapp, which is active in Romania, and Hungarian-born Munch, which is also present in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, announced they are merging to consolidate and expand their activity in preventing food waste. Together, the two scale-ups plan to expand to Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Serbia, and Slovenia. The new entity totals…

Developers in Romania completed new projects with a leasable area of 572,000 sq. m in 2024, reflecting a 27% growth when compared with 2023, while the total industrial & logistics stock in Romania reached almost 7.6 million sq. m at the end of Q4, according to a Cushman & Wakefield Echinox analysis.  The development activity…

Without a clear focus and highly politicised, the boycott announced by the ultranationalist presidential candidate Calin Georgescu against the foreign modern retailers, allegedly discriminating against local producers, failed to make a major impact in Romania. Launched in Croatia against the high prices, the boycott spread across the region having various forms and degrees of political…

Over 100 public institutions and private company buildings across Romania will be illuminated in red on Tuesday, February 11, to mark European 112 Emergency Number Day.  The initiative belongs to the Special Telecommunications Service (STS), which invited other institutions to illuminate their buildings in red. “On Tuesday, more than 100 buildings—including government offices, financial and…

State-controlled hydropower group Hidroelectrica (BVB: H2O) announced that its net electricity production dropped by 21% y/y to 13,864 GWh in 2024, according to the company’s preliminary operational report.  The amount of total electricity sold decreased by 24% to 14,665 GWh. The dynamics reflects marginal improvement from the 22% y/y decline seen in the first nine…

The Belgian group United Petfood, one of the largest pet food producers in the world with factories in multiple European countries as well as in the USA, is investing EUR 35 million in a production unit in Romania located in the town of Răcari, Dâmboviţa County, according to Ziarul Financiar.  For the group, which has…