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Global Value Chains (GVCs) are international networks of economic activities through which goods and services pass through multiple stages of production, processing and distribution, carried out in different countries. These chains allow...

Digitalization, decarbonization and circular economy are essential pillars in the global economic and social transformation.

• 1. Historical context: 

In 2024, two reports were published, prepared at the request of the European Commission. The first report, coordinated by Enrico Letta, is entitled "More than a Market" and refers to the transformation of the single market into a true...

Europe faces a significant shortage of military personnel and an insufficiency of defense capabilities, despite increased spending on this sector since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, according to a report prepared by the British...

European stock markets rose yesterday, mostly, in the conditions in which Republican Donald Trump will return to the White House, following his victory in the US presidential elections.

Romradiatore Braşov (RRD), a company controlled by Transilvania Investments (TRANSI) in which the coach of the Romanian football team, Mircea Lucescu, has a 16.5% stake, reported for the first nine months of the year, total revenues of 20.2...

The final declaration of the BRICS 2024 Summit held last week in Russia, a document that emphasizes supporting Africa in this period of global transformation, is a gauntlet thrown in the face of the US, according to an article published on Friday...

Russia has proposed the establishment of a grain exchange between the member states of the BRICS group, which could later be expanded to trade other important raw materials, President Vladimir Putin said yesterday in the inaugural speech at the...

The last month of summer was marked by a series of government decisions that continued to deepen the budget deficit, which - according to the budget execution for the first seven months published by the Ministry of Finance at the end of August -...

The aeronautical company IAR Braşov (IARV) reported, for the first half of the year, operating revenues of 240.2 million lei, 9% below those of the first six months of last year, while the net profit decreased by 59% , up to 14.3 million lei,...

Oil and products made from this raw material represent, on average, 30% of global merchandise exports, valued at 1.5 trillion dollars annually, according to a visualcapitalist.com analysis.

After the American vice president Kamala Harris presented at the end of last week her economic program as a candidate for the position of the president of the USA, we wonder if what is called the Simion Plan still looks like a utopia - as...

The member states of the European Union have financed the Kremlin regime with almost 200 billion euros, from the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine until now, through the lens of fossil fuels purchased directly or indirectly from the Russian...

The relaxation of monetary policy by central banks has favorable consequences for the TeraPlast company, directly influencing the cost of existing debts, but also the cheapening of potential new lines of credit, Prime Transaction analysts write...

• "The company's approach is to increase its market share, at the expense of current profitability", say the brokerage house's analysts 

Demand for critical minerals such as copper, cobalt, lithium and nickel has been increasing in recent years, with these raw materials being used in a range of new technologies, from electric cars to wind turbines, which are becoming increasingly...

The European Union (EU) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have signed an agreement on a new mechanism that provides capital investment for the exploration of essential and strategic raw materials, with the aim of...

China is conquering the port infrastructure in Europe while the European Commission seems concerned only with supporting Ukraine and less with combating its influence on the territory of the European Union. According to several articles published...

The country is boiling, literally, and the workers of the land beat...the fields to ensure an optimal production. In this hot July I spent a day, from sunrise to sunset, in an area where fruit is as precious as gold. Grapes, cherries, peaches,...

Given that Europe has only 9% of the necessary raw materials, sustainability is an essential condition for the construction sector, argue the specialists of the Strabag company who work in the Zublin Innovation Center in Stuttgart, Germany and...

In 2023, Romania's economy recorded a moderation in the growth rate, to 2.1%, which however remained relatively solid from a European and regional perspective. The twin deficits remained at high levels, while the annual inflation rate evolved...

China a fost cel mai mare extractor de materii prime interne din lume în 2023, conform datelor Programului Naţiunilor Unite pentru Mediu (UNEP), preluate de Statista. Ţara asiatică a extras un total de 34,2 miliarde de tone de materii prime,...

China was the largest extractor of domestic raw materials in the world in 2023, according to data from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), taken by Statista. The Asian country extracted a total of 34.2 billion tons of raw materials,...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the temporary blockade of its Black Sea ports have redirected the flow of grain from the "breadbasket of the world".

In the first three months of the year, the chemical plant Chimcomplex Borzeşti (CRC) obtained a net profit of 7.44 million lei, compared to a loss of 8.3 million lei in the same period last year, against the background of the increase in revenues...

The Romanian Academy launches an interesting invitation to the authorities, in addition to the proposal, there is also a concrete offer of support. The Romanian Academy states that our country has considerable mineral and energy resources and...

The beer market in our country experienced, with only 15 million hectoliters of beer sold, a decrease of 5% at the end of last year, a decrease that is added to that of 2022, according to the report presented yesterday by the representatives of...

Romanian agri-food products in stores will have a capped addition of a maximum of 20%, according to a bill initiated by Florin Barbu, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Residential projects seem to be on stand-by this year, a fact that can be felt in the activity of construction material producers in our country, who also faced a decrease in the volume of works in the residential area last year, but with a...

Preţurile materiilor prime vor urca în acest an, pe măsură ce băncile centrale din SUA şi Europa vor reduce ratele dobânzilor, contribuind la susţinerea cererii industriale şi a consumatorilor, potrivit Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Commodity prices will rise this year as U.S. and European central banks cut interest rates, helping to support industrial and consumer demand, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The commodities trading industry had the second best year in its history in terms of profits in 2023, posting earnings of more than $100 billion while accumulating significant liquidity that can be spent on asset acquisitions or entering new...

Traditionally, the second month of the year should be marked by the beginning of the first parliamentary session and less by the visibility of the work carried out by the government, but the electoral year 2024 seems out of the ordinary, in view...

The Bucharest Stock Exchange, OMV Petrom and BRD-Groupe Societe Generale are among the companies with the best reported financial results for the fourth quarter of last year, according to an analysis report by the...

Reporter: How did 2023 end for the company you lead? What were the estimates at the beginning of last year and what are the results at the end of last year?

Our country must train human resources suitable for industrial fields, said Florin Jianu, the President of the National Council of Small and Medium Private Enterprises in Romania (CNIPMMR), on the occasion of the press conference where the BCR...

Indicele preţurilor materiilor prime agricole măsurat de Banca Mondială (BM) a crescut marginal în ianuarie 2024 (faţă de decembrie 2023), după ce a scăzut cu 1% în trimestrul al patrulea al anului trecut, evoluţia din prima lună a anului curent...

The price index of agricultural raw materials measured by the World Bank (WB) increased marginally in January 2024 (compared to December 2023), after falling by 1% in the fourth quarter of last year, the evolution of the first month of the...