Turkey

On 29 November 2020, Vienna Insurance Group signed the share purchase agreement to acquire the entities of the Dutch insurer Aegon in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Turkey. The deal includes insurance companies, pension funds, asset…

President Klaus Iohannis has signed on Friday the decrees to recall 12 Romanian ambassadors, including the ones from Russia, Turkey, Hungary or Iraq. The 12 diplomats are ending their ambassador mandates, political sources revealed.…

Vola is launching a new online service for renting yachts and other boats in over 7 European destinations. Vola Boats is offering Romanian tourists an alternative to crowded vacations, providing them with online access to over 14,000…

Paralela 45 tour operator is resuming charter flights from Bucharest to Antalya as of August 17 and from Cluj-Napoca, Iași, Timișoara to Antalya as of August 22, on a weekly basis. The flights will be operational until mid-October.…

With the summer season approaching, travel agencies in Romania are starting to get ready to provide tourists with some options for their holidays, while complying with the new safety and protection rules amid COVID-19 crisis. Paralela 45…

The list with the red zones (countries with high number of COVID cases), for which a 14-day institutionalised quarantine is needed has been extended up to 12 countries, with measures to be enforced as of Friday, April 3. The countries…

Romania ranks second in the world in the 2020 Ignorance Index, as being a country where the most erroneous perceptions have been registered. Turkey ranks first, while Spain third. Brazil is the country where assessments of people are the…

The National Tourism Fair is getting closet, coming with fresh discounts for travelers. The fair is due at Romexpo during February 18-24. Paralela 45 is coming out with discounts ranging from 10 to 50%, which are adding to the Early…

There are approximately 582 million entrepreneurs in the world today, which means 1 in every 13 people own their own business. RS Components have mapped where these new business owners are throughout Europe to reveal which European…

The US Deputy Chief of Mission in Bucharest, Abigail Rupp (photo) was invited off the stage by the Turkish consul in Constanta when the American official got ready to take the floor about religious freedom. "It's regrettable", retorted…