The Romanian-Greek Business Partnership took place yesterday, May 17, in Bucharest, the event being organised by the Greek Embassy’s Bureau for Economic and Trade Affairs and the Greek Tourism Organisation in Bucharest (EOT), with the support of the Region of Epirus and of the Romanian-Greek Chamber of Bilateral Trade. The event sought to present the […]
Brașov, the popular mountain city in central Romania, will no longer host a fireworks display on New Year’s Eve, the City Hall announced. The decision, the authorities say, aims to protect pets and wildlife from the stress and harm caused by loud explosions, as well as the environment from chemical pollution. Instead of fireworks, the […]
Romania’s Social Democratic Party (PSD), part of the governing centrist coalition, is backing District 4 mayor Daniel Băluță for the general mayor of Bucharest. Elections will take place on December 7. Interim party leader Sorin Grindeanu first talked about the appointment following discussions with the PSD in Bucharest. “We had a meeting with colleagues from […]
More than one year after its launch, Attractive Romania/România Atractivă - part of the country’s first national program dedicated to cultural tourism - announced a major expansion. The platform added 450 new tourist landmarks and launched multilingual access in six languages. The digital platform, developed as part of the National Recovery...
Romanian-born author Patricia Furstenberg invites readers into the shadowed heart of Transylvania with her 1000-word story The Night of Returning Souls. “Let me show you the world as it once was,” she told Romania-insider.com, introducing a haunting tale set on All Saints’ Night, when the veil between the living and the dead grows thin. “In […]
Three tourists climbing Romania’s Făgăraș Mountains died this past weekend in separate accidents after slipping hundreds of meters down steep, ice-covered slopes. According to the mountain rescuers, two of the victims may not have had the necessary equipment for winter conditions. Their bodies could not be recovered immediately because of the late hour, officials said, […]
Timișoara mayor Dominic Fritz and environment minister Diana Buzoianu signed the financing contract for the construction of the city’s first photovoltaic park, with a value exceeding RON 32 million (EUR 6.29 million), on Monday, October 27. The new photovoltaic park will have a capacity of 5.6 MW and will produce annually, on average, nearly 7,800 […]
