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UiPath, the Romania-founded global software company, has laid off 400 employees even after the company's valuation topped $7 billion in April. The company which has its main offices in New York is burning heavy cash in its push to build more hype around robotic process automation (RPA). It is estimated that the company had about 3,000 employees before the...

Romania will nominate two Liberal European lawmakers to be the country’s European Commissioner, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said on Wednesday after his first Cabinet meeting. The picks are Siegfried Muresan, an outspoken critic of the former government’s contentious judicial overhaul and Adina Valean, a veteran member of the European Parliament. The unusual proposal came...

Romania's government has asked the state-owned energy company to terminate a partnership with China General Nuclear Power Corporation for the building of two new reactors in southeast Romania. Nuclearelectrica already operates two 700-megawatt reactors at the country’s only nuclear power plant in Cernavoda. It will now examine other options for the remaining units 3...

A Romanian court has declared a Bucharest public heating distribution company bankrupt. in a ruling that will likely cause concern for residents ahead of the winter months. The Court of Appeals ruling on Monday put an end to three years of insolvency for the public company and came after recent hot water and heating shortages for...

Romanian police say that Cyprus ambassador to Romania has been found dead at the embassy residence in the Romanian capital. Police said Monday that the body of Filippos Kritios, 62, had been transported to the morgue for an autopsy. He is believed to have died early Sunday. One hypothesis is...

Romania’s foreign minister has warned about rise of Holocaust denial around the world in recent years at a meeting where 34 countries recommitted to step up efforts to counter antisemitism. Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu spoke this weekend at a meeting of the International Alliance for Memory of the Holocaust which is chaired by...

Migration figures from a German interior ministry report released this week showed that 15% of migrants to the country came from Romania, which was also the top choice for German residents to relocate to. The report which studied migration to Germany in 2018 was discussed at a government meeting on Wednesday. The report said that about...

Romania’s health minister said Saturday a second wave of COVID-19 infections could come in the autumn, urging people to respect the lockdown during the holiday period. “We are expecting a second wave in October-December, but it depends very much how we cope with this wave,” Nelu Tataru said Saturday. “We have these three days (May 1-3) which...

President Klaus Iohannis has nominated the head of the Liberal Party, Ludovic Orban, to head a transitional government after the Social Democrat government was overthrown in a no-confidence vote. Orban said he was “honored” to be prime minister-designate and said “I guarantee I will put all my experience, knowledge and energy” into the job.

Romanian politicians have condemned anti-migration protests in a small Transylvanian town where local residents expressed outrage after a local bakery hired 2 Sri Lankans. Hundreds of local residents in the town of Ditrau which has an ethnic Hungarian majority protested Wednesday demanding local authorities put an end to migration and call a referendum to stop “the flow...