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An electoral poll published on May  21 by Antena 3 TV station places Nicușor Dan in first place in the voters’ preferences for mayor of Bucharest, 6 percentage points (pp) above Social Democrats’ candidate Gabriela Firea (PSD) and 15pp above Cristian Popescu Piedone – the candidate backed by the party founded by Antena 3 owner,…

Romania’s largest oil and gas group, OMV Petrom, is renting the entire tower building of its three-building Petrom City headquarters to a private school after working from home left the space empty, Profit.ro reported. Petrom City is the largest headquarters of a company in Romania, inaugurated in 2010 in the northern Bucharest district Dămăroaia, following…

The Port of Constanta will equip an additional berth for the transhipment of Ukrainian grain, the Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company (UDP) informed in a message posted on its Telegram messaging account and quoted by Interfax, Profit.ro reported. “Our Romanian colleagues announced the completion of the tender for the berth equipment on the occasion of a…

Romania is getting close to completing its foreign debt sale plan for the year with a new Eurobond sale as the risk of a wider-than-expected budget deficit is expected to boost funding costs, Bloomberg announced on May 21. The country, which has already raised EUR 7.9 billion in dollar and euro-denominated FX bonds from international…

Amazon Games has opened a game development studio in Bucharest, the company announced. It is led by Cristian Pană, the former managing director of Ubisoft Bucharest.  The Bucharest studio joins the company’s existing development teams in Orange County, Montreal, San Diego, and Seattle. “Expanding our internal development teams into Europe was a natural next step…

The Golden Generation of Romanian football will be celebrated at Art Safari in Bucharest with a temporary exhibition from May 23 to June 2. The team will play a farewell match on May 25 at the National Arena in Bucharest. The exhibition marks the exceptional performances of the national team at the 1994 World Cup,…

Romanian citizens can travel to Turkey using only their national ID card, according to a presidential decree signed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan and published in Turkey’s Official Gazette.  “Romanian citizens holding a national identity document are exempt from visa requirements for tourist and transit travel to Turkey, with a maximum stay of 90 days within…

The Timișoara City Hall in western Romania will soon complete the rehabilitation of the Studio Cinema, located in the central area of the city. The project is valued at approximately RON 14.2 million, or EUR 2.9 million. Studio Cinema is the third cinema renovated by the Timișoara City Hall, following Cinema Victoria, which reopened in…

A total of 21 LGBTI organizations and groups in Romania recently made a public appeal to all politicians running in the European Parliament elections on June 9 to sign a commitment that stresses the fact that the EU must become a global leader in promoting the rights of sexual minorities. The goal was proposed by…

Romania has lost a position and is now ranked sixth globally for the cheapest fixed internet subscriptions and second in Eastern Europe, according to a study by Cable.co.uk, which analyzed prices in 223 countries.  All countries in Eastern Europe are in the top half of the ranking, with Ukraine and Romania making it in the…