Ambasada României în Statele Unite ale Americii / Romanian Embassy to US

09/14/2026

🎻🇷🇴 Where Enescu’s Music Came Home

Some music belongs in a concert hall. And some music seems to belong to the landscape that gave it life.

At Colibița Lake, surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains, the New Hope Orchestra performed George Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody before thousands of people gathered along the shore — and listening from boats on the water.

It was difficult to imagine a more fitting stage. Enescu’s music carries the spirit of Romania within it — its rhythms, its longing, its joy, its unmistakable vitality. Hearing those notes travel across the lake and into the mountains felt less like a performance and more like a homecoming.

The moment resonates even more as Romania celebrates Enescu’s enduring legacy through the George Enescu International Competition, underway from August 23 to September 19, 2026 — part of the tradition built around one of the world’s great classical music institutions.

At Colibița, Romania did not simply listen to Enescu. For a moment, the landscape seemed to play along. 🇷🇴🎶🏔️

Video: New Hope

09/13/2026

The Embassy of Romania to the United States invites the Romanian community to the fourth edition of the Romanian Community Summit, held in Chicago between September 18 and 20, 2026. This is the largest annual gathering of the Romanian diaspora in North America, and our mission is a diplomatic partner of this edition.

Three days of programming across five tracks: Business, Education, Community, Youth & Emerging Leaders, and Tech & Innovation. Panels, workshops, a startup pitch competition, and an awards evening recognizing members of the community.

The Summit is organized by the Romanian United Foundation together with diaspora organizations across North America and Europe.
Program and registration: rosummit.org

09/12/2026

🇷🇴🇺🇸 Romania Remembers, Alongside America

Twenty-five years after September 11, Romania joined the American people in solemn remembrance.

In Dallas, Texas, Romania’s Ambassador to the United States and Mihai Jurca, Head of the Chancellery of the Romanian Prime Minister, attended the Dallas-area commemorative ceremony and laid a wreath in memory of the victims of 9/11.

Alongside firefighters, representatives of American Airlines, and officials who served at the time of the attacks, we honored the lives lost and the extraordinary courage shown on that tragic day.

For Romania, this remembrance also speaks to an enduring bond. In the years after 9/11, Romanians and Americans stood shoulder to shoulder, united by solidarity, sacrifice, and shared values.

Twenty-five years later, Romania remembers with America. 🇷🇴🤝🇺🇸

09/12/2026

Twenty-five years ago, on a clear September morning, terror struck New York, Washington and the fields of Pennsylvania.

09/11/2026

🇺🇸 September 11 — We Remember

Twenty-five years later, the silence of September 11 still speaks.

We remember the nearly 3,000 lives lost, the families forever changed, the courage of first responders, and the countless acts of humanity that emerged from an unimaginable day.

Romania stood with the United States then, as a friend and Ally. We stand with America today — in remembrance, solidarity, and enduring friendship.

Never forgotten. Always remembered. 🇷🇴🤝🇺🇸

09/07/2026

🇷🇴🎻 Romanian Music Will Open the Season at Carnegie Hall

This fall, when the first notes of Carnegie Hall’s chamber season fill New York, they will carry the unmistakable sound of Romania.

For the first time, two Romanian musicians will have the extraordinary distinction of opening the chamber season at New York’s legendary Carnegie Hall. Violinist Diana Jipa and pianist Ștefan Doniga will take the stage at Weill Recital Hall with something profoundly Romanian: the music of George Enescu.

Their program could hardly have a more fitting name: ROOTS.

At its heart will be Enescu’s Third Violin Sonata “in Romanian Folk Character,” as the masterpiece marks 100 years since its composition. The evening will also bring contemporary Romanian creation to New York, including the world premiere of Diana Rotaru’s Roots and Loops.

And these are artists who already know what it means to take Romanian music around the world — literally. Diana Jipa and Ștefan Doniga hold the official Guinness World Record for the fastest time to play a concert on every continent, completing all seven continents in just 98 days and 22 hours.

Seven continents. One world record. And now, Carnegie Hall.

At one of America’s great temples of music, two Romanian artists will not arrive by leaving their roots behind.

They will arrive because they carried them all the way to Carnegie Hall. 🇷🇴🇺🇸🎶

Congratulations, Diana Jipa and Ștefan Doniga — may Romanian music resonate magnificently in the heart of New York.

Photo: Carnegie Hall

09/05/2026

🇷🇴🤖 From Romania to Wall Street — and Now, Rethinking the Future of Work

Few Romanian entrepreneurial stories have traveled as far — or changed the global technology conversation as profoundly — as Daniel Dines’s.

The Romanian founder of UiPath, who took a company born in Bucharest all the way to Wall Street, has now turned his attention to one of the defining questions of our time: what remains uniquely human in an age of artificial intelligence?

His new English-language book, The Work That Remains, offers business leaders a pragmatic perspective on AI — beyond both the fear and the hype — examining where the technology is genuinely powerful, where its limitations remain, and how companies can use it wisely. Fittingly, Dines wrote the book with the assistance of AI itself.

There is something distinctly Romanian in this journey: from building one of Romania’s greatest global technology success stories to helping shape the international conversation about what comes next.

Because Romanian excellence is not only about reaching the world’s biggest stages.

It is also about helping imagine what the world might look like when we get there. 🇷🇴🌍💡

Photo: ZF

09/04/2026

🤸‍♀️ Scrie istorie cu „Un Condei numit Fair Play”! Concurs dedicat copiilor și tinerilor români din diaspora! ✍️🇷🇴

Celebrăm Anul Nadia Comăneci, iar Ministerul Afacerilor Externe (MAE), în parteneriat cu Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român (COSR), lansează o invitație specială elevilor români care studiază în străinătate.

Se împlinesc 50 de ani de la legenda de la Montreal din 1976 – primul 10 curat din istoria gimnasticii olimpice! 🔟✨

Ești pasionat de scris sau de sport? Participă la concursul național de literatură și jurnalism sportiv și arată-ți talentul!

Cine poate participa?
Elevii români din diaspora, pe trei categorii de vârstă: 7-10 ani, 11-14 ani și 15-18 ani
Secțiunile concursului: 📝 Poezie, 📖 Proză (ficțiune) și 🎤 Cronică / Reportaj sportiv

Tema ediției 2026:
„Universul Nadia Comăneci / Primul 10 din istoria gimnasticii la Jocurile Olimpice”. Lucrările trebuie să fie dedicate acestei performanțe istorice și gimnasticii artistice.

📅 Perioada de înscriere: 1 septembrie - 9 octombrie 2026
📧 Format: Exclusiv online, prin e-mail, la adresa: [email protected]

👇 Descarcă Regulamentul concursului si Talonul de participare din linkul din comentarii!

09/04/2026

📢 Veste importantă pentru persoanele care au lucrat în România și în Statele Unite

De la 1 septembrie 2026, perioadele de asigurare realizate în cele două țări pot fi luate în calcul împreună pentru îndeplinirea condițiilor de pensionare. Fiecare stat va calcula și va plăti partea de pensie corespunzătoare perioadei lucrate în propriul sistem.

Cererile se depun la casa teritorială de pensii, pentru persoanele din România, sau la un birou al Social Security Administration (SSA), pentru cele aflate în SUA.

Mai multe informații: Casa Națională de Pensii Publice

Casa Națională de Pensii Publice informează că, începând cu data de 1 septembrie 2026, a intrat în vigoare Acordul în domeniul securității sociale dintre România și Statele Unite ale Americii…

09/03/2026

🇷🇴🎬 It’s Official: Romania Is Sending Fjord to the Oscars

From the Palme d’Or at Cannes to representing Romania in the race for the Academy Awards — Fjord is carrying Romanian cinema onto yet another extraordinary world stage.

Cristian Mungiu’s latest film has been unanimously selected as Romania’s official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 2027 Academy Awards.

And the international momentum is already building. Variety recently included Fjord among its favorites for a potential Best Picture nomination, although the film must first make it through the Academy’s selection process.

The recognition follows an extraordinary Cannes journey, where Fjord won the Palme d’Or and several additional distinctions. Romanian-born Sebastian Stan stars alongside Renate Reinsve, with Romanian talent strongly represented behind the camera as well.

There is something powerful about seeing Romanian cinema command the attention of the world once again. Cristian Mungiu does not simply take Romanian cinema abroad — he reminds the world why it matters.

Cannes has spoken. Romania has made its choice. Now, the road leads to Hollywood. 🇷🇴🏆🎥