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Romania’s Ministry of Culture announced that it has initiated a dialogue with representatives of the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy group, focusing on a series of events and exhibitions that aim to globally highlight Romanian artisans and craftspeople. The talks are taking place after the popular fashion brand used the traditional blouse model with ribbons specific…

Fashion retailer Primark announced the opening date of its third store in Romania and the first in the western part of the country. Located in Iulius Town Timișoara, the new location is set to welcome its first customers on August 7. Primark Timișoara will span 3,200 square metres on the first floor of the shopping…

The Romanian men’s sabre team won the silver medal at the European Fencing Championships in Basel on Sunday, June 23.  The team consisting of Răzvan Ursachi, Vlad Covaliu, Radu Nițu, and Matei Cîdu, defeated Switzerland, 45-13, and Italy, 45-37, qualifying for the semifinals, where they eliminated Turkey with a score of 45-44. In the final,…

The National Committee of far-right party SOS Romania unanimously decided on the candidacy of Diana Iovanovici-Şoşoacă in this year’s presidential elections. She is the party’s president and, following the June 9 European and local elections, a member of the European Parliament. Diana Şoşoacă joined SOS Romania after leaving the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians…

Renewable energy company FF Ventures has announced its official entry into the Romanian market, where it plans to develop 500 MW of solar projects and 500 MW of energy storage projects over the next three years. The company plans to develop its own portfolio of greenfield projects, but it is also looking at co-development opportunities.…

Romania’s national football team is set to play against Slovakia on Wednesday, June 26, at 19:00, in the last match of Group E in the UEFA EURO 2024 tournament. At this point, all teams in Group E have three points each, a situation that is unprecedented at an EURO cup.  The match against Slovakia is Romania’s…

BBC has recently published a feature about the Mihail Kogălniceanu base in Constanța county, Romania, which is set to become the largest NATO airbase in Europe, “bigger even than Ramstein in Germany.” Named after the village nearby, the military facility is located close to the Black Sea coast and is being enlarged under a project…

Florin Spătaru, an adviser in the chancellery of Romanian prime minister Marcel Ciolacu and former minister of economy, speaking for B1 TV, rejected the European Commission’s fiscal slippage concerns and assured that the public deficit would remain close to the 5%-of-GDP target this year. He also assured the government will not hike the tax rates…

One of Romania’s two major opposition parties, Save Romania Union (USR), is electing new leadership, but none of the candidates in the race is likely to bring it back to its roots like the founder of Save Bucharest Union could have.  Cristian Seidler, one of the two frontrunners in the internal elections organised by USR,…

Romanian company Alu Menziken, which specialized in producing semi-finished products and components made from aluminum – part of the Montana group founded by the Austrian entrepreneur Michael Tojner – was bought beside the entire group by the Chinese group Inner Mongolia Mengtai Group, according to an announcement made by the law firm Nestor Nestor Diculescu…