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The Olt in Steps: 20 Hydropower Plants and a Project Begun in 1989

Seen from above, the Olt looks less like a river than a chain of lakes. The number that explains it is 20. Farther upstream, in the gorge, a staircase of dams begun in 1989 is still unfinished: its last two steps received environmental approval only in September 2026.

Adi Coco · 3 min

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The Story of the Paper That Never Leaves the Office

Print, sign, scan, send. For two years now, the law has allowed a significant portion of documents exchanged between companies, employees, or neighbors to be signed without any of these steps. Mysign, the platform developed in Târgu Mureș by REEA, was built around this change. What does it solve, and what doesn’t?

At the Real Estate & Construction Forum in September, a leasing director repeated a figure to make sure it was heard: 34 permits for a single project related to an office building. In other words, it’s not the construction that’s the bottleneck - it’s the paperwork. Some of that paperwork belongs to the government…

Adi Coco · 5 min