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Campulung Muscel mayor Elena Lasconi, a former TV anchor turned politician, announced her candidacy for the top position in the major Romanian opposition party Save Romania Union (USR) after former party president Catalin Drula resigned amid disappointing results in the European and local elections on June 9.  Lasconi was initially appointed as the flagship candidate…

Romania will have to double the installed power generation capacity to 40GW by 2035 because 60% of it has to be produced in PV or wind installations and will, therefore, be intermittent, according to the 2025-2035 energy strategy draft currently under debate at the Ministry of Energy. Romania assumed within the framework of the STL…

Residents in some neighborhoods of Brussels reportedly signed a petition against Romanian telecom operator DIGI Communications, claiming that its fiber network would damage the aesthetic of their facades, according to Economica.net.  The Romanian telecom group should reach a deal and share the networks already installed by the other three operators, the residents claim.  In response,…

French group Lactalis announced it is closing its dairy factory in Miercurea Ciuc to concentrate its activity on the three milk processing facilities it operates in Campulung Moldovenesc (Suceava County), Oiejdea (Alba), and Sfantu Gheorghe (Covasna).  The decision does not affect the product portfolio of the Lactalis Romania brands in any way. The dairy products…

Romania won the litigation case filed by the owner of the bankrupt insurer Astra Asigurari, Dutch-based Nova Group Investments controlled by the Adamescu family, according to a note published by the Romanian Ministry of Finance. The case was filed by Nova Group Investments in 2016 on the grounds of the bilateral agreement on ensuring fair…

The average net wage in Romania rose by only 0.6% m/m to RON 5,217 (EUR 1,050) in April, enough to result in an annual advance of 14.3% y/y compared to +13.9% y/y in April, according to data reported by the statistics office INS.  Combined with lower inflation (5.9% y/y in April), this, in turn, resulted…

The first edition of the International Interwar Music Festival will take place from July 5 to 7 at Sala Radio in Bucharest. Dedicated to the music from the 1920s to the 1940s, the event is organized under the motto “A music to remember” by the ProCultArt Association, with actress Miruna Ionescu and violinist Valentin Albeșteanu…

The matches of the European football tournament, EURO 2024, will be shown in the George Enescu Square in downtown Bucharest. From June 14 to July 14, fans of the national team and others are invited to the Fan Zone on Calea Victoriei (the parking lot next to the Athenaeum), where they will be able to watch…

Transilvania International Film Festival, the largest feature film festival in the country, kicks off its 23rd edition today, June 14, in Cluj-Napoca. The festival’s sold-out opening gala, expected to gather a public of more than 3,500, marks the beginning of eleven days of hundreds of screenings, cine-concerts, exhibitions, concerts, discussions, and special events. Luc Besson’s…

Suspicions of electoral fraud deepen after the local and European elections held in Romania on June 9, which saw the governing PSD-PNL alliance tighten its grip on city halls across the country and the far-right replace reformist opposition MEPs in the European Union’s legislative. While some incumbent mayors accuse fraud, Expert Forum revealed that a…