The outgoing President Klaus Iohannis ends his term at the Cotroceni Palace, with the interim position to be taken over by the President of the Senate, Ilie Bolojan, on Wednesday.The ceremony to end Iohannis' term will take place on Wednesday, at 12:00, at the Cotroceni Palace, according to the Presidential Administration.Klaus Iohannis resigned from office on Monday, in the context in which the Parliament had initiated the procedure to suspend him from his position as head of state. He claimed that the suspension procedure would lead Romania into crisis and ''absolutely no one will understand what the point of such an approach is, when the incumbent president will leave anyway''. "In other words, we will effectively be the laughing stock of the world," Klaus Iohannis said on Monday when announcing his resignation."In order to spare Romania and Romanian citizens from this crisis, from this unnecessary and negative development, I am resigning from the position of President of Romania. I will leave office (...) on February 12th. God bless Romania!", Iohannis said.The Constitutional Court (CCR) on Tuesday found the position of president of Romania vacant and ruled that Ilie Bolojan, president of the Senate, would take over the interim position at Cotroceni Palace from February 12.Klaus Iohannis was elected head of state for two terms. His last term was supposed to end on December 21, 2024, but the Constitutional Court annulled the presidential elections and decided that Iohannis would remain at Cotroceni until a new president is elected. The CCR's decision came after the Supreme Council for Country's Defense (CSAT) declassified intelligence received from the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding the electoral campaign conducted by Calin Georgescu in the presidential elections.Ilie Bolojan is to take over the interim position at Cotroceni Palace until May. The first round of the presidential elections will be held on May 4, and the second on May 18. Bolojan will be suspended from the position of National Liberal Party's president.
The Romanian software company Life is Hard, listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange under the ticker LIH, announced a strategic investment of EUR 250,000 in RepsMate, a deep-tech startup, on Friday, May 23. RepsMate specializes in conversational AI and the intelligent automation of company-customer interactions. The investment reinforces the growth in LIH’s ENGINE division, which […]
An autonomous, driverless bus was tested on Thursday, May 22, in Cluj-Napoca during the International Summit for Climate Neutrality, held under the slogan "Carbon OFF. Future ON,” to demonstrate the integration of modern technology into public transport. The bus performed a demonstration tour on a short route, starting from the Radisson hotel, crossing George Coșbuc […]
Romania’s national railway company CFR Călători announced on Thursday, May 22, that it will provide a daily direct connection from Bucharest to Varna starting June 13, and to Sofia and Istanbul/Halkali starting June 14. According to the cited source, the train will run on the new route from June 13 to October 13, 2025, and […]
Romanian filmmaker Bogdan Mureșanu will premiere his first animated short film, Magicianul/The Magician, at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival, taking place in France from June 8 to 14. The film, written, directed, and produced by Mureșanu, is the only Romanian title selected in the official competition, which features 35 productions...
US general Ben Hodges, the former head of the United States Army in Europe, said on Thursday, May 22, that if Russia attacks NATO, it will first bomb Romania’s port of Constanța and civilian targets. Hodges spoke in an interview about the possibility of reducing American troops in Europe, and implicitly in Romania. He added […]
Romania's national women’s handball team faces an uphill battle against Denmark, Japan, and Croatia in the group stage at the 2025 World Championship. The teams were selected on Thursday, May 22, at the Noordbrabants Museum in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. Romania was part of the second seeding pot at the draw for the groups of the 27th edition […]
