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The King’s House in Viscri announced the opening of the temporary exhibition “Captive between worlds” of Romanian personality George Matei Cantacuzino (1899-1960).  A selection of more than 30 paintings, in oil and watercolor, are showcased in the reconverted barn of the traditional Saxon property in the UNESCO World Heritage Village Viscri in Romania’s famous region…

Roughly 45% of the Romanian patients who requested the services of Wiener Privatklinik, or WPK, in the first 6 months of the year needed diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases, mainly rare forms of cancer.  It is estimated that one million Romanians suffer from rare diseases, but only 500 of the more than 6,000 known conditions…

Dominic Fritz, re-elected on June 9 as the mayor of Timișoara, a major city in western Romania, announced that he submitted his application for Romanian citizenship on Thursday, July 4.  The mayor is a German citizen by birth and first arrived in Romania in 2003 after finishing high school. He worked for a year as…

Sphera Franchise Group, the largest group in the food service industry in Romania, expands the KFC network by opening the first unit in Sinaia. This inauguration, the fourth in 2024, entailed an investment of around one million euro. Situated in one of the most visited tourist destinations, where the flow of visitors exceeds 200,000 annually,…

Maria Boldor, elected partner in the international management consultancy group Horváth in the spring of this year, also became managing director of the Bucharest team, after 17 years in the company. She is the first partner representing Romania at the group level among the approximately 70 partners of Horváth. Maria Boldor’s predecessor at the head…

Romanian president Klaus Iohannis will be in Washington, D.C., from July 9 to 11 to attend the meeting of the heads of state and government of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. According to the official press release, Romania’s membership, security in the region, and the war in Ukraine are among the topics on the Romanian…

Romania will receive EUR 12.25 million for participating in the European Football Championship – EURO 2024 hosted by Germany. The cash prize is based on the team reaching the round of 16, according to figures published by the Spanish sports newspaper AS and cited by Agerpres.  Participation in the initial phase of the European championship…

Flip.ro, the young Romanian company that encourages circular economy by refurbishing electronic devices and reintroducing them on the market as new, announced sales of EUR 56.4 million in the fiscal year 2023. The figure is 46% higher than the EUR 38.3 million reported in the previous fiscal year. More than 400,000 customers have bought or…

Romania recently launched the Office for Film and Cultural Investments to encourage studios to produce films in the country.  The Ministry of Culture also announced the launch of a new call for projects dedicated to the production of audiovisual works that will begin on July 25.  “Despite all the obstacles and administrative incapacity manifested since…

Rowers Ionela and Marius Cozmiuc were named as Romania’s flag-bearers for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. “They have raised the flag on all of the world’s podiums and will also carry it proudly in Paris 2024,” the Romanian Olympic Committee said. Ionela and Marius Cozmiuc are married, and both are world champions. Together, they…