Simona joined the Romania Insider team in 2015, first working on our travel guide in English and, later, writing features and interviews for Romania Insider. Since 2022, she has been Editor-in-Chief of Romania Insider. She holds a BA in Romanian and English and an MA in American Studies from the University of Bucharest and started her journalism career in 2003. Simona divides her time between her hometown Ploiești and Bucharest. While in Ploiești, she enjoys spending time with her family and taking long walks with the family dog. Going through an ever-expanding reading list and traveling, now replaced by travel literature and documentaries, are some of her favorite activities. You can get in touch with her for stories about arts, culture, and travel: simona@romania-insider.com
Astra Film Festival, an event dedicated to documentary film, announced the ten awards offered at
Mirela Tanc, who teaches Romanian at the Oltea Doamna Gymnasium School in Oradea, is one of the 50
SeedBlink, the Bucharest-based investment platform specializing in sourcing, vetting, funding and
Romanian production Imaculat, directed by Monica Stan and George Chiper-Lillemark, was awarded the
HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s direct-to-consumer streaming platform, will launch in Romania in 2022, the
Romanian pan flute player Gheorghe Zamfir is scheduled to perform at Untold, the large music
A total of 76.5% of the employees in Romania have experienced at least one burnout episode in the
Low-cost airline Wizz Air will introduce routes from Iaşi to Madrid and from Suceava to Brussels
An exhibition of hats inspired by the works of Spanish and Latin-American painters is scheduled to
Romania recorded 2,033 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the highest number since end-April.
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The vaccination rate among those older than 12 is close to 50% (49.4%) in Bucharest, Valeriu
President Klaus Iohannis will be on an official visit to Switzerland on Thursday, September 9.
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