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Romania’s presidential elections are heading towards a surprise result after the first round held on Sunday, November 24. With over three-quarters (76%) of the votes counted and centralized, independent candidate Calin Georgescu is in the lead, ahead of social democrat prime minister Marcel Ciolacu. Calin Georgescu, 63, has a doctorate in pedology and has worked…

Prime minister Marcel Ciolacu, the candidate of the Social Democrat Party (PSD), is in the first place in the first round of the presidential elections, with an estimated score of 25%, according to exit polls carried out by CURS and Avangarde – CIRA, quoted by Hotnews. The candidate of the center-right Save Romania Union (USR)…

The voter turnout at the Bucharest referendum has reached and exceeded the validation threshold as 37% of the city residents with a right to vote had cast their ballot by 19:00, according to data from the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP). A minimum of 30% of voters needed to cast their option in order for the…

The Bucharest National Opera will host “The Magic of Fairy Tales” Christmas fair from December 2 to December 27, on the esplanade of the building.  The center of the fair is Santa’s House, where children are invited to meet Santa Claus. The fair will also feature a gastronomic area with aromatic mulled wine and holiday-specific…

A 74-year-old woman named Gherghina from the southern Romanian county of Teleorman stars in the new Nosferatu film along with Bill Skarsgard, Nicholas Hoult, and Lily-Rose Depp. The Romanian woman is a star on TikTok, where she has over 700,000 followers, and her inclusion in the movie was announced by director Robert Eggers in an…

Romania and Bulgaria are closer than ever to becoming full members of the border-free Schengen Area by the end of the year after informal discussions between interior ministers from Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Austria. Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán confirmed that all barriers to accession have been removed, paving the way for Romania and Bulgaria…

AROBS Engineering, part of AROBS Group, Romania’s largest technology company listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, has launched the testing phase for its innovative AlertBox prototype. The device, developed with funding from the European Space Agency (ESA), is designed to connect constellation systems Starlink and Iridium to national emergency response networks. The first AlertBox prototype…

Timișoara’s Studio Cinema (Cinema Studio) is scheduled to reopen next month after undergoing refurbishment works of close to RON 25 million (approximately EUR 5 million), the local authorities announced. The cinema, set to reopen to the public on December 6, is the third in the city to be rehabilitated and reopened in recent years, after…

The exhibition Mnemonics [Back to the Future], which brings together new works by all the 14 artists that the Bucharest-based gallery Gaep represents or collaborates with on a long-term basis, is scheduled to open on November 22. It gathers works by Răzvan Anton, Pavel Brăila, Felipe Cohen, Vlatka Horvat, Théo Massoulier, Sebastian Moldovan, Tania Mouraud,…

High demand during Black Friday tested the endurance of retailers and pricing, security and website crashes were the main challenges that retailers faced in this time of the year, according to Exorigo-Upos, the Polish company that provides IT technology solutions for the retail sector. „These problems lead to lost sales and negative brand experiences during…