Hungary sends 40 ventilators, 1,650 noninvasive ventilation masks and 3,000 boxes of Favipiravir to 20 hospitals in Romania to help this country manage the Covid-19 epidemic, the Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjarto announced on Thursday, according to MTI.Most hospitals are in Transylvania. “Considering the epidemic has no borders, the success of managing it in neighbor countries contributes a lot to the success of efforts against the pandemic in Hungary”, said Szijjarto. He mentioned that the fourth wave of the pandemic ravages Europe and countries with low vaccination rates, such as Romania, can have problems. Many patients in Romania need invasive treatment and many hospitals hardly cope with the situation, the head of Hungarian diplomacy says. He added that in order to find the best assistance means, consultations between the governments of Budapest ad Bucharest are carried out. Representatives of the Romanian executive include provisional deputy premier Kelemen Hunor and provisional health minister Cseke Attila.
Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu is on the longlist for this year’s International Booker Prize, the influential award for translated fiction, with the novel Solenoid, translated into English by Sean Cotter and published at Pushkin Press. He is the first Romanian author to be longlisted for the prize, alongside 12 other authors nominated for the International Booker […]
Investors from Western Europe, particularly Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom, have been the most active buyers of real estate assets in Romania over the past five years (2019–2024), making investments totaling EUR 1.75 billion, according to data from real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield Echinox. The Western European's market share accounted for […]
On Tuesday, February 25, the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) granted 20 awards to listed companies, brokerage companies, as well as to private pension and investment funds for their achievements in 2024 as part of the 12th edition of the BVB Awards. In the opening speeches, stock exchange officials also highlighted the growth of the local […]
Romanian football club FCSB announced on Tuesday, February 25, that its website has been targeted by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which has caused disruptions in the online ticketing process. The incident occurred as the Bucharest team was selling tickets for the match against Olympique Lyon in the Europa League round of 16. […]
The training program in sustainable development runs from April to July 2025, in 5 development regions of Romania. The postgraduate course targets over 1,200 future experts in sustainable development, who will become local leaders of change. The total value of the training program is RON 5.3 million, with funding entirely sourced from the National Recovery […]
A new report from Colliers highlights significant trends in Romania's housing market for 2025, revealing a continued rise in home prices, limited new supply, and increased demand for rental properties. The findings show that while housing deliveries fell by 15% nationwide and over 20% in Bucharest, demand increased by 7% in 2024. As a result, […]
