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Sixteen years after its establishment, Oxygen undergoes brand uplift to reflect its new positioning as a forward-looking agency with creativity at its core. The new slogan, Creators of the Future, captures the agency’s mission to combine creativity and strategic thinking to deliver impactful solutions, drive client growth, and prepare brands for the challenges of tomorrow.…

Ilie Bolojan, interim president of the National Liberal Party (PNL), announced on Monday, December 9, during an interview with Digi24, that Romania will have a new government by the end of the year. Talks between pro-European parties are set to begin on Tuesday, focusing on drafting a government program and establishing clear plans for the…

Romanian-born actor Sebastian Star received two 2025 Golden Globe nominations for best performance of a male actor for his role as Donald Trump in the drama The Apprentice and his performance in the comedy/musical A Different Man. The latter role also earned him the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance earlier this year at the…

VTEX named a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Digital Commerce report   Engineered for Growth, Driven for Success: VTEX is Taking on U.S. Legacy Commerce with the success of Customers like Colgate, Hearst, Calvin Klein, Whirlpool, and more. Enterprise brands are no longer accepting the limitations of legacy commerce platforms. In fact, in…

Meta Platforms Inc. allowed a network of Facebook pages to post more than 4,100 political ads attacking Romania’s pro-EU presidential candidate Elena Lasconi and promoting far-right figures, including Călin Georgescu, in the run-up to the country’s elections, a report says, according to a Bloomberg investigation. The campaign was run on 25 apparently separate Facebook pages…

Austria has withdrawn its opposition to Romania and Bulgaria becoming full members of Europe’s Schengen free-travel area, the country’s interior minister Gerhard Karner announced. This decision clears the way for European Union interior ministers to approve the move at their meeting on Thursday, December 12. Romania and Bulgaria, both EU and NATO members, had partially…

Romania’s prime minister and Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader, Marcel Ciolacu, has been granted a “broad mandate” to negotiate the formation of a pro-European coalition government, party spokesperson Lucian Romașcanu announced. PSD sources quoted by Ziarul Financiar suggest two potential coalition scenarios: one including the reformist Save Romania Union (USR) and another excluding it. The…

Herbal Therapy Laboratories group, with combined operations in Romania and the Republic of Moldova estimated at RON 20-25 million (EUR 4-5 million) in 2023, has completed an investment for a new 1,800 sqm production space in northeastern Romania at Botoşani, where it produces cosmetics. In 2025, the group targets RON 70 million combined turnover. The…

Enterprise Investors-owned Polish fintech PragmaGO, one of the largest non-banking financial institutions on the Polish market providing services to small and medium-sized entrepreneurs, took over the Romanian peer Telecredit IFN, which operates under the Omnicredit brand, from the investment fund Reconstruction Capital II Limited (RC2) and Elisa Rusu, the company’s CEO.  The Katovice-based fintech is…

Romania is facing increased risks related to the security of its electricity supply, as imports are reaching alarming levels, according to an official document consulted by Profit.ro.  The government highlights Romania’s role in supporting Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, as well as the decisions to close some coal-fired capacities in the context of the…