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The last stop of this year’s TIFF Unlimited Caravan will be in Brașov, between October 4 and 6, the organizers said. The event will bring Romanian and foreign premiere films, a cine-concert, special guests, and children’s programs to the city. Probably the most anticipated Romanian film of the year, Moromeții 3 (directed by Stere Gulea),…

Ukrainian Roman Lopatynskyi (opening photo) has won the piano section of the 2024 George Enescu International Competition, currently taking place in Bucharest. Russian pianist Tatiana Dorokhova was placed second, while Russian Evgeny Konnov was third. In the final, Lopatynskyi performed Johannes Brahms’s Concerto No. 2 in B flat major for piano and orchestra op. 83.…

Florin Duduianu, one of Romania’s most dangerous gangsters, was recently sentenced to five years in prison for bank fraud and identity theft, according to the United States Department of Justice.  Duduianu, 39, pleaded guilty to three charges of bank fraud and illegal use of credit cards. He was then found guilty of two counts of…

Emilia Şercan, a Romanian journalist specializing in rooting out plagiarized theses written by major local political figures, is one of the 18 nominees for PRIX EUROPA European Journalist of the Year 2024. She is the only journalist selected from Romania. The list of nominees also includes journalists from Hungary, Sweden, Ukraine, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the…

British chain of fish & chips restaurants Harry Ramsden’s recently began a push for international expansion and made Romania a priority due to the lack of local competition in this segment, Profit.ro reported. It reportedly targets Bucharest and other large cities. Harry Ramsden’s has been in the market in Britain since 1928. The brand’s story…

Romania will receive EUR 1.5 billion from the EU Cohesion Fund to help repair the infrastructure and households destroyed by the recent severe floods, Liberal (PNL) leader Nicolae Ciucă announced.  The amount is part of the EUR 10 billion the European Commission will distribute to the five countries affected by storm Boris. Ursula von der…

The two Romanian automobile producers, in their early stage of adopting electrification and thus less exposed to the twist in buyers’ options, announced their aggregated output rose by 8.7% y/y to 356,475 units in January-August, according to the industry association ACAROM, quoted by Economedia.ro. The Ford Otosan factory in Craiova marked a significant 26% y/y…

Romanian dairy maker Fabrica de Lapte Brasov, which produces the Olympus brand in central Romania at Brasov, part of the Greek group Hellenic Dairies, announced it completed its EUR 40 million logistics hub that would serve the group’s regional operations. The company ranked last year as the largest exporter among food producers in Romania. The…

VAT Romania, part of the Swiss group manufacturer and supplier of vacuum valves, has started the construction of its new factory, located in VGP Park Arad. The factory will be the third main global production facility for VAT, alongside the headquarters in Switzerland and the facility in Malaysia. It will also host engineering departments, IT,…

French group Michelin will relocate some 60 workplaces from its flagship factory located at Stoke-on-Trent in the United Kingdom to Eastern Europe, of which 22 to Romania (Bucharest) by the end of next year, and 39 to Poland (Warsaw) until September 2025, according to Profit.ro. In an increasingly competitive labor market, the lower labor productivity…