Tenor Jose Carreras on Saturday was awarded the Cluj-Napoca-based Gheorghe Dima Music Academy's Doctor Honoris Causa title, in acknowledgement of his artistic activity. "We have the privilege and honour to award the Doctor Honoris Causa title to master Jose Carreras, as a sign of acknowledgement for his international artistic activity. Tenor Jose Carreras is a great person, a great people lover, an altruist, who can be taken as a model. All the young people in the world will follow him, because he has managed in the art he makes," Gheorghe Dima Music Academy rector Vasile Jucan said during the ceremony. In his turn, Jose Carreras said he is honoured by the title awarded to him. "It is a great honour to receive this title from the Music Academy of Cluj, one of the most active music institutions of Romania. My connection with Romania has been established a long time ago and I am glad that my music is appreciated by the Romanian public, who respects my work. Music is my vocation since I was a child, it is my life," Jose Carreras said. Attending the ceremony, among others, were Cluj Prefect Gheorghe Vuscan, Mayor Emil Boc, Babes Bolyai University rector, Academician Ioan Aurel Pop. Tenor Jose Carreras held his first concert in Cluj-Napoca at the Polyvalent Hall, on Sunday, at 19,00hrs.
Representatives of the ruling Social Democratic Party, PSD, gathered for a congress in Bucharest on Friday, November 7, to elect new leadership and to amend the party’s Statute. The only candidate for party leader is Sorin Grindeanu, who held the interim position after Marcel Ciolacu's resignation in May. In his speech at the congress, Sorin […]
The e-commerce sector recorded strong early results on Black Friday 2025, according to real-time data released on Friday, November 7, by PayU GPO Romania from its dedicated Media Center. By 14:10, the payment processor reported successful transactions totaling RON 514 million (roughly EUR 101 million). PayU said shoppers had made roughly 889,000 purchases, with around […]
Contakt Express Logistik, one of Romania’s leading retailers of mobile phone and tablet accessories, with a network of over 235 stores, is set to launch the initial public offering (IPO) between November 12 and December 3, 2025. The company offers a wide range of products, including cases, screen protectors, chargers, and gadgets, both in physical […]
Romania attracts fewer international tourists today than it did during the communist era, making it the only country in Europe in this situation, the National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT) warned, as reported by news agency Agerpres. According to the organization, Romania received more than 3.4...
InterCapital ETF, the first international ETF provider in Romania, will launch two new exchange-traded funds on the Bucharest Stock Exchange starting November 11, 2025. The new instruments are the InterCapital CROBEX10 TR UCITS ETF, which offers exposure to the Croatian blue-chip equity market by tracking the performance of the CROBEX10tr index, and the InterCapital EUR […]
The Competition Councils of Romania, Bulgaria, and the Republic of Moldova have granted the necessary authorizations and approvals for the completion of the transaction through which Maspex Romania takes over the majority shareholding of Purcari Wineries. The Maspex Group, which has been present in Romania for nearly 30 years, became the majority shareholder of one […]
