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The General Council of the Municipality of Bucharest decided on Friday to increase local taxes by 10.4% (the inflation rate for 2023) and increase other taxes for the residents of the Capital. According to the new regulations, hybrid means of...

The future strength of the global economy has taken a mixed picture over the past year, amid rising protectionism and geopolitical conflicts, according to an analysis by visualcapitalist.com.

Klaus Iohannis was president of Romania between 2014 and 2024, serving two consecutive terms, which were marked by important political, social and economic events, but also by controversies and criticism. During his two terms, Klaus Iohannis...

The vastness of outer space hides secrets that are hard to imagine. A study suggests that the Moon is 80 million to 180 million years older than previous estimates. According to the study, published in the journal Nature, rock samples taken from...

Trouble never comes alone, not even in climate issues. The ways in which people consume and feed themselves are causing "interconnected" crises that affect biodiversity, climate and health, threatening the survival of essential ecosystems...

The balance sheet of his own government is a positive one, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu claimed yesterday, at the end of the government meeting, in a press statement in which he presented the main achievements of his mandate. Unfortunately, the...

5 to go, the largest coffee chain in Eastern Europe and the most accessed franchise in Romania, marks an important stage in its evolution, ten years after its launch, concluding a strategic partnership with the private equity fund Invenio...

The competition in the technology sector is fierce, with each company trying to carve out as big a slice of the market as possible. ChatGPT, the most well-known generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, can be used as a free search...

Knowing the past is fundamental for building the future. The Minister of Education, Ligia Deca, declared that all high school students will take the subject "History of Communism in Romania', a subject dedicated to grades 12 and 13 in...

The Minister of Culture, Raluca Turcan, announced the allocation of 140 million euros for a large cultural investment project, "Cultural Foundations", the total estimated net cost of which is 280 million euros. Raluca Turcan spoke about...

Asset valuations across the US economy remain elevated, fueled by investor optimism as the Federal Reserve (Fed) begins its easing cycle, according to an analysis by visualcapitalist.com.

The draw for the groups in the World Cup preliminaries took place in Zurich. The same story, with complicated rules for establishing groups, often difficult to understand, in the already classic style of those from FIFA. Our national team cannot...

The year 2025 could become one of the three warmest years ever recorded globally, according to the British agency Met Office. The estimates come after a year 2024 that could break all temperature records, exceeding for the first time the...

Pollution is causing major problems in many parts of the world, especially in Asia. Some Iranian students and civil servants have been told to stay home for two days due to severe air pollution affecting Tehran and several other cities in the...

The American technology company Nvidia Corp. is the best-performing stock in the S&P 500 stock index, a position it has maintained for the past 20 years, according to an analysis by visualcapitalist.com, which ranked the top eight stocks in...

Land aridity is a problem with long-term effects and is difficult to solve. About three-quarters of the Earth's surface has become "permanently drier" in recent decades, a new UN study has warned. According to the study by the UN...

The S&P 500 is up about 27% this year, slightly above its 24% gain in 2023, and if the year were to end at this point, it would be the best performance of the main U.S. stock market basket since 2019, an evolution that was not anticipated by...

Cathedral or museum?, was one of the questions asked on the occasion of the reopening of the gates of Notre-Dame. Pope Francis called for a "generous and free reception" of the expected visitors to Notre-Dame Cathedral, in the message...

Romania is the place where the American counter-revolution starts, through which Joe Biden remains stuck in the US presidential chair, without Donald Trump being able to access the White House, where the voters sent him, Călin Georgescu revealed...

Games and challenges launched on some social networks can have unwanted effects for minors. Representatives of the Ministry of Education have warned that all social networks must comply with the rules for the protection of minors in the online...

Holcim will list its North American division on the Zurich Stock Exchange (SIX Swiss Stock Exchange), in addition to its planned New York listing after the spin-off of the operations in 2025, the Swiss building materials giant said on Friday,...

If there is one word that sums up 2024, it is "change": change in politics, with over 2 billion people across the world going to the polls, and a profound shift in the global order that has shaped the world over the last 80 years and that...

Good news is coming from the education sector. Romanian students' math results are improving, said Education Minister Ligia Deca, after the launch of the results of the international study on the competencies of 4th and 8th grade students in...

Călin Georgescu has been radicalized. This statement does not belong to us, but is the conclusion of a comparison that we requested from Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT) between the statements made by Călin Georgescu in an interview given to the...

Damage caused by extreme weather events is increasing. The 2024 tropical cyclone season was exceptional, with violent storms causing record losses well above the average of the last ten years, according to estimates by the German reinsurance...

The Gaudeamus Radio Romania 2024 Book Fair opened yesterday in Romexpo Pavilion B2. The honorary president is the writer Mircea Cărtărescu. The visiting program is daily between 10:00 and 20:00, and public access is free. Over 200 participants,...

24X National Exchange, a US stock exchange operated by a startup that aims to handle 24-hour trading, has obtained approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Bloomberg reports.

The Association of Electricity and Gas Suppliers in Romania (AFEER) draws attention to a 10% increase in natural gas bills for household consumers, starting January 1, 2025, if Parliament does not quickly adopt a legislative amendment. The gas...

European natural gas benchmarks rose for a second straight session on Thursday, with the weather forecast calling for cooler temperatures in many parts of the continent, Bloomberg reported, according to Agerpres.

The Social Democratic Party won the parliamentary elections, being credited in the exit poll prepared by CURS with 25.7% of the over 9.4 million votes cast, and in the INSCOP exit poll with 24% of the votes. PSD is followed by AUR, which stood,...

Air pollution caused by fires has become a major global problem, responsible for more than 1.5 million deaths per year, according to a study recently published in the prestigious journal The Lancet. This alarming statistic highlights the...

The Erasmus programme, which facilitates exchanges in higher education, has helped around 15.1 million people gain experience abroad since the initiative was launched in 1987, the European Commission has announced. The programme was created to...

Increasing subsidies, developing the irrigation system, access to financing and amending the lease law are the main demands of farmers in our country, according to the White Paper on Agriculture 2024 document launched yesterday by the National...

The administrator of Metropolitan Life announced that the mandatory private pension fund had reached a 5.18% holding in Antibiotice Iaşi at the end of last week, which means that Metropolitan bought shares in the drug manufacturer from Infinity...

Protecting the environment involves enormous costs and clearly not everyone is ready to assume them. Only 41% of companies have implemented climate risk management plans, and the companies with the highest emissions are the most flagrantly...

Financial markets may be losing patience with Romania's high fiscal deficit, Daniel Dăianu, president of the Fiscal Council, warned, noting that the seven-year deficit reduction plan risks being too slow for some investors, Reuters reports....

The medalists at the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games were each awarded a hybrid car by Toyota Romania, COSR's mobility partner, during the Gala 110 Years of Olympism in Romania. The athletes who won two medals in Paris each received a...

Plastic pollution has reached unprecedented levels. Four global policies could eliminate almost all plastic pollution on Earth, according to a study conducted with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) by researchers at the University of...

The surprise in the first round of the presidential elections, won by the independent Călin Georgescu, after which the USR candidate, Elena Lasconi, came in second, brought declines for all indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB).

Marcel Ciolacu and Nicolae Ciucă resigned on the same day they founded the PSD-PNL governing coalition three years ago: November 25. Ciolacu resigned from the PSD presidency because he went to bed as a finalist in the presidential elections and...