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The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cluj has filed an indictment against a company and its administrator for suspected fraud involving a €114,000 (RON 570,894.95) EU-funded project for research and innovation, aimed at supporting competitiveness and economic recovery. The investigation showed that a company, represented by its administrator, obtained EU funding for a project focused on developing advanced inorganic...

Legendary former Romanian player Gheorghe Hagi is set to take over the national team at an important moment for football in the country. The Romanian Football Federation made the announcement on Monday. "Negotiations between the federation and Hagi have come to an end, with the former international great being the main option to fill the post left vacant after the death...

Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said he won’t resign as the largest party in the country’s ruling coalition meets to decide whether to withdraw its political support for him. If the Social Democratic Party (PSD) withdraws its support, its ministers will be withdrawn from the government, a move to force the Liberal Party, to come up with an alternative prime...

Romanian weightlifter Mihaela Cambei won one gold and two silver medals in the 53 kg category on Sunday at the European Weightlifting Championships. The Paris Olympic silver medalist took gold in the snatch with 95 kg, after missing her second attempt at 93 kg. She also won the silver medal in the clean and jerk with 114 kg (after failing...

Progressive Bulgaria, the coalition led by Bulgaria's Kremlin-friendly ex-President Rumen Radev, is projected to be the runaway winner of the country's snap parliamentary elections on April 19. With over a third of the vote counted, Radev's Progressive Bulgaria was leading with 44% of the vote, results showed. Early exit polls showed the coalition on track to win 37-38% of the vote....

Romania remains among the EU countries with the lowest employment rates, even as overall labour market participation across the bloc continues to reach record highs. In 2025, 76.1% of people aged 20 to 64 were employed across the European Union (the highest level since 2009) reflecting a gradual upward trend. Romania, however, lags behind at 69.0%, placing it alongside Italy and...

For centuries, we defined ourselves by work. Artificial intelligence is making that less plausible. This substack, Ask Questions Later, offers a seditious — but possibly useful — proposal In recent weeks, it seems that concerns about Artificial Intelligence disrupting too much, too fast — enough to trigger major societal consequences — have crossed a Rubicon. Increasingly, it no longer feels...

"We cannot be prisoners of a government that steals bread from Romanians! This is the conclusion of the first regional meeting of PSD branches…where all my colleagues agreed that we cannot remain in the government forever for the sake of a false stability that doesn’t bring prosperity. We refuse to be complicit in a government that makes unilateral...

The Kremlin has identified several locations in the United Kingdom which it claims are involved in the production of drones and equipment for Ukraine, and which it has declared it intends to target. The sites mentioned include areas in London, Leicester, Reading and Suffolk (Mildenhall, where an RAF base is situated). Dmitri Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, wrote on...

Banat says the food it serves is "Europe on a plate." In recognition of the culinary diversity and historic influences, the region which lies in southwestern Romania next to Serbia and Hungary has obtained the title of European Gastronomic Region for 2028. The announcement came after an evaluation from the International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism (IGCAT), the...