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Thirteen finalist bands from ten countries will take part in Jazz in the Park, the biggest competition in Eastern Europe, from 5 to 7 July. "The biggest jazz competition in Eastern Europe returns to Cluj with young talents, which are the 13 finalist bands that will perform at Jazz in the Park Competition 2024. The Central Park in Cluj-Napoca will...

Despite trans-European disapproval, Hungary has opened itself up to Chinese tech.  It has also built 36 factories for Electric Vehicle batteries.  Meanwhile, China has made itself at home in Hungary with its CATL factory, the Chinese SemCorp separator foil factory,  Eve Energy, and the Chinese EcoPro cathode plant. A Chinese "gigafactory" for BYD electric cars is being prepared.  China has an astonishing...

A court sentenced former Health Minister Sorina Pintea on Friday to three and a half years in prison on a 35,000-euro bribery charge. The ruling is not final and she can appeal. The court also ruled to bar Dr. Pintea from holding public office or the position of manager of a public hospital for three years. Magistrates ordered 10,000 euros be...

An important trial of the world's first "personalized" mRNA vaccine against melanoma is now under way in the UK. As the name would suggest, the jab, mRNA-4157 (V940), uses the same technology as current Covid vaccines and is being tested in final-stage Phase III trials. University College London Hospitals (UCLH) doctors are giving it alongside another drug, pembrolizumab/Keytruda, that also helps...

Four books have been removed from France's national library over concerns their covers may be colored with poisonous arsenic, thanks to their emerald green color.  The library, in turn, said handling the books would “only cause minor harm”.  Nevertheless, the library "have put these works in quarantine and an external laboratory will analyse them to evaluate how much arsenic is present...

A Romanian dog that was recruited by police in the U.S. state of South Dakota has made her first drug bust on her second day in the job. Suni, a female Belgian Malinois from Romania, began her service with the Tea Police Department in South Dakota following the completion of a six-week K-9 training certification course, Sioux Falls reported. She was...

After the pandemic, travelers have returned to flying, with the air travel sector making a strong comeback. The Airports Council International (ACI) World has predicted global passenger traffic to reach 9.7 billion by the end of the year, exceeding the pre-pandemic 2019 record for the first time, writes eToro analyst for Romania, Bogdan Maioreanu The increase in travelers translates into...

Bucharest National Opera artists mezzo-soprano Mihaela Maria Ișpan, cellist Mladen Spasinovici and Ethan Schmeisser, a pianist and conductor, are performing a special concert to accompany an exhibition by late Spanish artist Salvador Dali. The concert on April 27 comes after the artists hosted a sold-out performance at the end of March in Bucharest. They are returning to the same venue, the...

The criminal network facilitated illegal entry of Bengali, Egyptian and Pakistani nationals into the EU by arranging fraudulent work visas. Romanian police have dismantled an organized crime group in a cross-border investigation that arranged the illegal arrival in Romania of migrants via fraudulently obtained work visas, before facilitating their further illegal movements to other EU countries. The Romanian police was supported...

A Moldovan leader has been accused by prosecutors of channeling funds from Russia to a pro-Moscow party in the former Soviet republic. Evgenia Gutul, who heads the pro-Moscow autonomous region of Gagauzia, has tense relations with the central government, which fears Russia and exiled oligarchs meddling in its political affairs. Prosecutors accuse of her of funelling funds from Russia from 2019-2022...