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Attendees of the 23rd edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (June 14-24, 2024, Cluj-Napoca) will have the opportunity to watch the first episodes or complete seasons of new series, presented as national premieres in the To Be Continued section.  Highlights include the first episode of the second season of House of the Dragon, the…

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI) said that 1,578 contraventions or possible electoral law violations were reported during the local and European elections on June 9, and roughly 40% of them have not been confirmed. Compared to the previous European Parliament and local elections and the same period, the number of irregularities reported nationwide is…

Romanians elected their representatives in local administration, including the general mayor of the capital, county council presidents, members of the General Council of the Municipality of Bucharest, county councils, local mayors, sector mayors of the Capital, and members of local councils for each administrative-territorial unit on Sunday, June 9. Voter turnout nationwide for the local…

The governing alliance made up of the Social Democrat Party (PSD) and the National Liberal Party (PNL) gathered 21.33% of the votes cast in the diaspora, the preliminary results from the Permanent Electoral Authority show. The United Right Alliance (ADU), encompassing the Save Romania Union (USR), Forța Dreptei, and the People’s Movement Party (PMP), is…

Air passenger traffic increased by 4.9% year-over-year in Romania in the first quarter of 2024, from 4.93 million to over 5.17 million passengers, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INS) quoted by Agerpres. With roughly 1.65 million embarked passengers and about 1.60 million disembarked passengers, Bucharest’s Henri Coandă Airport took the first…

Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan intends to hold a referendum on how the city’s budget is divided between the general city hall and the district ones and on themes related to urban planning. He made the announcement in the speech he delivered after the first exit poll results on the June 9 local elections were announced.…

The two ruling parties in Romania won together 63% of the votes for the County Councils in the June 9 local elections, according to the exit poll carried out by Curs and Avangarde. In the best proxy for the political support enjoyed by the two parties ahead of the parliamentary elections in December, the Social…

Austrian group Lasselsberger, already active in Romania, plans to expand its production base with a new plant where it would invest RON 823 million (EUR 166 million, VAT included), Economica.net reported.  For the project, the company applied to get a state grant in the amount of RON 133 million (EUR 21 million) under the scheme…

OMV Petrom, the largest integrated energy producer in Southeastern Europe, announced that it strengthened its partnership with Renovatio by acquiring a 50% stake in three photovoltaic projects totaling 130 MW.   The projects will be developed, built, and operated in partnership with Renovatio. Thus, the two partners will have a total joint installed capacity of…

The Bulgarian government has approved the transfer of the 57.14% stake held by the French energy company TotalEnergies in the Han Asparuh oil and gas block in the Black Sea to OMV Offshore Bulgaria GmbH, part of the Romanian oil and gas group OMV Petrom (BVB: SNP), and extended the permit exploration for this project,…