Dan Iulius Plaveti has been recalled as president of Romania's National Energy Regulations Authority, by order of Prime Minister Victor Ponta, and replaced with Niculae Havrilet, former head of the Agency of State Domains and Mures county councilor on behalf of the Liberal Party.
Cluj-based deep-tech startup .lumen, known for its AI-powered glasses for the visually impaired, has joined the EUR 7.8 million program VR Health Champions as a flagship SME. Through the VR Health Champions project, .lumen will co-develop its second-generation product, a smaller, more refined version designed for global markets, the company said. The collaboration will enable […]
DAAS Epta Romania, part of the Epta Group, has opened a new training center in Ploiești dedicated to refrigeration technicians, following an investment of more than EUR 500,000. The facility, located at the company’s headquarters, is the first of its kind established by a private company in Romania’s refrigeration industry, the company said. The DAAS […]
Greenvolt Next, part of the Greenvolt Group, said that it completed a new photovoltaic power plant integrated with a high-performance energy storage system for Abund Berry, a company in the wild berry processing industry, in Buftea, Ilfov county. The PV system, with an installed peak capacity of 512 kWp, is equipped with an advanced battery […]
Five Romanians, four men and one woman, have been sentenced to prison for raping and sexually abusing ten women, whom they drugged and sexually exploited in the city of Dundee, Scotland. The five Romanian citizens received sentences ranging between eight and twenty years in prison. The group, led by 38-year-old Marian Cumpănășoiu, drugged and abused […]
The Romanian government has amended its fiscal austerity rules to ease restrictions on spending by local authorities, Digi24 reported. The decision modifies Emergency Ordinance (OUG) 52/2025, which had previously frozen most local...
The Romanian software and IT services industry continued its growth trajectory in 2024, exceeding the EUR 17.7 billion turnover threshold, a nominal increase of over 13% y/y or EUR 2.1 billion compared to the previous year, according to data presented by Diana Şipoş, executive director of the Employers' Association of the Software and Services Industry […]
