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Low-cost carrier Wizz Air announced the expansion of its operations in Moldova, adding a third aircraft to its Chișinău base in October 2025 and launching six new routes. The move will provide over 393,000 additional seats and strengthen Moldova’s air connections with Europe, the company said. Starting in late October, passengers will have direct flights…

Romania continues its humanitarian support for civilians in Gaza, conducting a medical evacuation mission to transport 13 Palestinian patients in urgent need of medical care, along with 34 family members. The operation, carried out on March 19 by a C-130 Hercules aircraft of the Romanian Air Force, ensured that those affected by the lack of…

The 2025 edition of the World Happiness Report was released on Thursday, March 20, and Finland tops the overall list again for the eighth year in a row. Meanwhile, Romania landed in 35th, down from 32nd in 2024. Finland is first in the most recent ranking, with Finns reporting an average score of 7.736 (out…

Anamaria Gavrilă, leader of the far-right Young People’s Party, or POT, called police to her parliamentary office inside the Palace of Parliament and asked them to clear the press outside. Responding police officers, however, gave her a warning after determining that the media representatives had not violated any legal provisions. Gavrilă called the emergency number…

The Romanian government plans to secure RON 8 billion (EUR 1.6 billion) in dividends from state-owned companies in 2024 by mandating a minimum distribution of 90% of net profits to the budget, Profit.ro reported.  This measure, which extends to national companies, enterprises with full or majority state capital, and autonomous public administrations, will be enforced…

The gas-fired power plant Mintia, with an initial capacity of 860 GW, will be commissioned in line with the schedule next year and will use natural gas from the Neptun Deep offshore field in 2027, Romanian minister of energy Sebastian Burduja confirmed in a Facebook post. “Today, the second giant generator, weighing almost 800 tons,…

The capacity of the new wind farms planned to come online in Romania will increase gradually from 380 MW this year to 490 MW in 2025 and 600 MW in 2027, summing up to nearly 1.5 GW over the three-year period, according to Ziarul Financiar quoting WindEurope estimates. In 2024, wind farms with a capacity…

Romania’s state-controlled group Hidroelectrica (BVB: H2O), which faced lower turnover and profit last year amid adverse weather conditions, has earmarked RON 660 million (EUR 130 million) to invest in 2025 for diversification projects, including solar projects, according to the 2025 budget draft submitted to the shareholders’ vote at the April 10 meeting. Speaking at a…

Romania’s largest publishing house, Litera, founded in 1989 in Chisinau by Moldovan entrepreneur Anatol Vidrascu, announced it is taking over the online marketplace Elefant.ro from the insolvent online retailer Elefant Online, planning to turn it into a modern online platform for selling books, toys, stationery, and school supplies. Before its insolvency was announced in 2024,…

Healthcare network MedLife has acquired a majority stake in All Clinic, in the Republic of Moldova. This is MedLife’s second transaction outside of Romania after its 2019 takeover of Rózsakert Medical Center Group in Hungary. The deal will allow the Romanian group to get acquainted with a new market and scale its business, it said.…