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While reporting on the catastrophic floods caused by storm Boris in central and eastern Europe on Monday, September 16, the British news channel BBC showed a map that confused Romania with Bulgaria.  In the map presented by the BBC, Romania appeared in Bulgaria’s place among the countries affected by the floods. The mistake was also…

Private healthcare operator MedLife has taken over 80% of the Euromedica Baia Mare Group, a private provider of hospital services in Maramureș county, in northern Romania. Established in 2003, the Euromedica Baia Mare group owns a medium-sized hospital offering multidisciplinary services, an outpatient clinic, a laboratory, and an imaging department. The hospital has 50 beds…

Romanian edtech company Youni raised a new investment of USD 1 million as it is preparing the launch of a new technology based on artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize the university admissions process. The new round was led by the Czech fund Soulmates Ventures and joined by Early Game Ventures. Early Game previously invested in…

U.S. violinist Mayumi Kanagawa (opening photo) has won the final of the violin section of this year’s George Enescu International Competition with a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns’s Concerto No. 3 in B minor for violin and orchestra op. 61. She was accompanied by the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Alan Buribayev. South Korea’s Hyeonjeong…

Jordan Chiles, the American gymnast whose Olympic bronze medal was revoked and returned to Romanian gymnast Ana Maria Bărbosu, has appealed her case to Switzerland’s highest federal court. The appeal is the latest act in a fierce battle over the bronze medal between the Romanian and American Gymnastics Federations. The battle started after the floor…

Austrian wienerberger, a leading provider of innovative and sustainable solutions for the construction industry, reopened the brick factory in the commune of Berca, Buzău county, following an extensive modernization process. The company covered the total investment of more than EUR 25 million from its own funding. The factory now uses state-of-the-art production technologies, and the…

The Romanian Government disbursed RON 100 million (EUR 20 million) to help the thousands of households who saw their homes severely damaged, prime minister Marcel Ciolacu announced on September 16 as the eastern part of the country was still recovering after a couple of days of severe rainfalls.  An immediate aid of RON 10,000 (EUR…

After he ran for the top seat at NATO and investigated his options for a top seat in the European Union’s executive body, Romanian president Klaus Iohannis may run in the national parliamentary elections for a lawmaker seat, according to G4Media.ro quoting sources within the Liberal Party (PNL) familiar with the scenario. Iohannis would run…

The US Department of Agriculture has once again revised down, by 900,000 tonnes this time, the estimate for Romania’s maize/corn production in the 2024-2025 marketing year. This comes after a 400,000 tonnes downward adjustment operated in July amid severe drought in the region. The country’s maize production could thus drop to 7.8 million tonnes, the…

Only one out of five localities in Galati county, severely hit by the floods recently, had mandatory insurance at the end of August, according to data from PAID – the entity that manages the compulsory home insurance scheme against floods, earthquakes, and landslides.  The insurance rates tend to be much lower than the average in…