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Romania’s Cluj-Napoca ranked best student city in the country in 2024
Cluj-Napoca is once again the best student city in Romania this year, according to the QS ranking of the best academic cities for students, as announced in a press release by Babeş-Bolyai University (UBB). The QS ranking of the best academic cities for students is based on indicators of academic accessibility and quality of life…
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Romanian airline AnimaWings announces new regular flights on the Bucharest-Cluj route
AnimaWings, the airline owned by Romanian tour operator Christian Tour, announced new regular flights on the Bucharest-Cluj-Bucharest route during an event organized in Cluj. The flights will start operating in March 2025. “Our ambition, reflected in the AnimaWings slogan, is to connect all major business and tourism destinations in the country,” said Marius Pandel, president…
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Clean Recycle: Romania records decreases in recycling of glass and metal
Romania has recycled only 38.31% of packaging waste, marking a decline of 1.56 percentage points, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INS) quoted in a Clean Recycle analysis. By category, the most significant decreases were seen in the recycling of glass, which dropped from 42.6% in 2020 to 28.03% in 2021, and…
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AI, ESG, and legislative changes: new challenges for Investor Relations professionals
ARIR (The Romanian Investor Relations Association), the promoter of the Investor Relations (IR) concept, organized the sixth edition of Forum by ARIR. The event, themed “New Horizons in Investor Relations: The European Challenge”, brought together over 30 relevant speakers from local and international capital markets, alongside approximately 100 participants from the Romanian capital market community.…
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Romania’s 2024 elections: Former justice minister Ana Birchall to run for president
Lawyer Ana Birchall, a former justice minister in the Social Democrat government led by Viorica Dăncilă, plans to run for president in this year’s elections as an independent, she told television station Digi24. Birchall said she was entering the presidential race “to fight the injustices” that Romanians face. “Every Romanian is faced every day with…
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Romanian officials meet with Bavarian counterparts during Euro 2024 tournament
Romanian prime minister Marcel Ciolacu met with the head of the Bavarian government while in Germany for Romania’s match with Ukraine, won by the former 3-0. The Romanian official brought a crate full of frozen mici [Romanian sausages], at the request of the Bavarian official. He also invited Markus Söder to visit Romania for the…
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Sophia enters the Spanish market. Confident Agency supports the development of “Sophia franchise” brand in Barcelona and the Balearic Islands
Sophia, one of the leading Romanian brands of curtains, draperies and custom decorations, with 30 franchise stores in the country and the USA, enters the Spanish market. The Romanian company focuses on developing its network of franchises and micro-franchises in the Balearic islands of Mallorca and Ibiza, but also in Barcelona, through the diaspora, in…
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Electoral Bureau rejects opposition’s request for scrapping ballot in Bucharest District 2
The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) of Romania rejected on June 18 the request filed by the opposition United Right Alliance (ADU) for scrapping the local elections results in Bucharest’s District 2 based on alleged frauds. ADU’s candidate, incumbent District 2 mayor Radu Mihaiu, failed to get another term in the June 9 local elections by…
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Brașov county ranks as Romania’s second tourist destination in January-April
With 12.6% of the total number of tourists hosted in Romania’s accommodation structures in January-April, Brasov county, with its popular winter resorts, ranks as the second tourist destination after Bucharest (17.6%). It is at a wide distance above the third-largest destination – the winter resorts placed along Prahova Valley in Prahova county (5.4%). According to…
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Erste cuts down target price for shares of Romanian water transport company TTS
The analysts of the financial group Erste revised downwards the target price for the shares of Romanian water transport company Transport Trade Services (TTS), citing a faster-than-expected decline in the Ukrainian grain business, on river transport, but mostly in the Constanta port. The recommendation remains Accumulate. The new target price is RON 28.06, versus RON…