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The inflation rate in Romania increased to 5.1% amid higher political turmoil after coming down to to 4.67% in October and 4.6% in September.  The Governor of the National Bank of Romania (BNR) warned at the beginning of last month that a new inflationary surge would follow the parliamentary and presidential elections but assured that…

Travel agency Christian Tour will take over the network of TUI Travel Center agencies in Romania. The value of the financial transaction associated with the takeover of the agency network exceeds EUR 1 million, the company said. The takeover of the TUI Travel Romania network will be completed by December 31 of this year. Following the…

Residents of Timișoara, in western Romania, can undergo free spirometry tests in a special tram as part of the #GrijădePlămâni (CareForLungs) campaign. For five days, from December 9 to 13, 2024, a team of doctors from the “Dr. Victor Babeș” Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases and Pneumophthisiology in Timișoara will conduct free spirometry tests between…

Cluj-Napoca startup Vitrotech Transylvania is launching an in vitro lab dedicated to hazelnut cultivation. The project, worth more than EUR 200,000, is developed as an extension of the Pădurea cu Aluni brand, owned by entrepreneur Dorin Bob. The laboratory will initially produce seedlings for the Pădurea cu Aluni project, which aims to develop the largest…

Electric Castle, a popular music festival in Romania, recently announced the first wave of artists in its lineup: Justin Timberlake, Queens of the Stone Age, Justice, and Bicep. The festival will take place on the grounds of the Banffy Castle near Cluj-Napoca between 16-20 July 2025.  As previously announced, American superstar Justin Timberlake will be…

Subteran, Netflix’s original Romanian series, will be available starting in January of next year, the streaming platform announced. The series, to be released on January 8, follows “a tech-savvy mother who stands up to the gangsters in Bucharest who have irreparably changed her life.” The cast includes Ana Ularu as Cami, an IT specialist and…

The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) in Vienna marks the 35th anniversary of the 1989 Revolution with a series of events grouped under the title 1989: Images of a Revolution. The ICR Vienna HQ will host the screening of two reports made by the Austrian television ORF in 1989 and 1990 about Romania, a photography exhibition…

Search engine giant Google recently published the most popular searches in Romania for 2024, indicating the topics and people that generated the greatest interest during the year. The top lists were created using “trending” lists: searches that registered sustained growth compared to 2023 over a significant period. “Trending” lists are different from the lists of…

A new parking lot will be opened in January near the “Avram Iancu” Cluj-Napoca International Airport, with a total of 889 parking spaces.  City officials want to set the lot’s fees low enough to encourage Cluj residents and visitors to leave their cars when they visit Cluj-Napoca. “The parking fees have been designed to encourage…

Four parties in the Romanian Parliament – the former “grand coalition” of Social Democrats with Liberals, the versatile party of Hungarians UDMR and the reformist party USR, plus representatives of other ethnic minorities – announced on December 10 their “firm commitment” to form a pro-European government. Chances are the new ruling coalition will be a…