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Russian civil servants are the most corrupt in Europe, as long as the value of most of the bribes demanded is between 100 and 500 euros, Kommersant daily showed yesterday, citing government data.

Plus 10% DNA could be the title of the activity report for the past year of the respective institution presented, yesterday, in a festive setting at the headquarters of the National Bank of Romania, by Chief Prosecutor Marius Voineag, if we take...

The full accession to the Schengen area of our country seems to be sabotaged by the heads of the Customs, but also by the staff at certain border crossing points, as demonstrated yesterday by the prosecutors of the National Anti-Corruption...

• January 5 

The European Union will never allow itself to be blackmailed by anyone, said the European deputy Siegfried Muresan, referring to the negative vote given by Hungary in the European Council in December regarding the review of the multiannual...

Radu Soviani: Mr. Peiu, how did you come into the mandate at SIDEX more than 20 years ago, and what challenges did you face at that time?

The closure in 2023 of more than 6,700 criminal corruption cases due to the intervention of the criminal statute of limitations could have been avoided if the politicians who occupied the seat of Minister of Justice from November 2019 until now...

A.6. Jubilee (Yowel)

Radu Soviani: How do you think the mass privatization program has evolved, from the beginning and announcements to what we have now?

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the suspension of carbon taxes, which were introduced this summer, amid pressure from voters, according to Bloomberg.

The change of government at the end of the first semester of this year apparently did not bode well for Prime Minister Ciolacu's team, which found itself with a budget deficit that is increasingly difficult to control and manage, with the...

The new school year brought us new fees and taxes in the first month of autumn, following the fiscal changes assumed in the Government Parliament to reduce the budget deficit. Threatened by the European Commission with the cut of allocations from...

The Financial Oversight Authority does not hesitate to amaze us every day through its rulings made in certain cases, in which either the Drăgoi family is involved, or its employees appear ephemerally, who make allegedly totally disinterested...

"Colectiv", regizat de Alexander Nanau, se află pe lista scurtă a filmelor eligibile pentru o nominalizare la categoriile "cel mai bun lungmetraj documentar" şi "cel mai bun lungmetraj internaţional" ale premiilor Oscar...

The aftermath of the political dispute in July made its negative effects fully felt throughout August. Due to the political indecision regarding the quarantine law that tormented the Romanian society in the middle of summer, we faced, last month,...

The Orban government will remain in Victoria Palace. The plenum of the Parliament did not debate and vote on the motion of no-confidence yesterday, because of the failure to meet the required quorum. The action of the social-democrats began just...

The state of alert has left its mark both on the political scene and the economic activity carried out in June. Many of the measures passed by the Government and Parliament have been aimed at further supporting the private business community and...

Globalization has also brought with it an unpleasant effect: cross-border corruption. According to the intermediate report Exporting Corruption for the year 2018, a document drawn up by the organization Transparency International, there is a...

Few of the investors in the Digi Communications offer got scared off by the prosecution of two of the RCS&RDS executives and withdrawn their subscriptions, after the amendment of the prospectus of the IPO.

Steven Van Groningen confuses me with every one of his actions: "I care. That's why I was in that square", the Dutchman who is the president of Austrian bank Raiffeisen Bank, the chairman of the Council of Foreign Investors (for a...

When I think of "Bogdan Olteanu", a list of names comes to my mind, a list that I reproduce in no particular order: Mugur Isărescu, Dinu Patriciu, Alina Gorghiu, Lucian Isar, Sorin Ovidiu Vîntu, Călin Popescu Tăriceanu, Daniel Zamfir,...

In January, the parents of Raluca Simu, wife to businessman Horia Simu, have acquired, through "Remacon Project", 50% of the shares of Sodo Migliori International SRL, which owns the Cellini jewelry brand, and 50% of the shares of...

The US State Department mentions in a report the refusal of the Mayoralty of Bucharest to apply the ruling concerning the pulling down of the Cathedral Plaza tower, built next to the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Bucharest, according to the Roman...

After Sorin Oprescu entered the Guinness Book of Records for the longest smoked sausage in the world and for the heaviest fruit and cream cake in the world in 2008, yesterday he achieved the "performance" of being the first mayor in...

September 1st brought with it surprises to the National Anti-Corruption Department, causing the former head of the DIICOT Alina Bica to be arrested again, as well as through a harsh anti-corruption discourse, addressed to the mass-media by Remus...

Whereas before, the DNA would use house arrest and pretrial (monitored) conditional release, instead of preventive custody, to negotiate information about offenses from the political and business world, the prosecutors are now using as...

The global wave of support for Charlie Hebdo, also comes from people who have never seen the magazine, said Bernard (Willem) Holtrop, a caricaturist with the magazine. "The fact that the Pope and Queen Elizabeth the 2nd of Great Britain have...

Every politician has a skeleton in their closet.

The president of the Military Territorial Court of Iaşi, judge of Radu-Dimitrie Tarniceriu, is being prosecuted for influence peddling and indirect participation in abuse in office, the National Anti-Corruption Department announced in a...

• Băsescu in 2005: "The contract with the EADS is useless and corrupt" 

Governor Mugur Isărescu had not yet responded to Traian Băsescu, yesterday by 17:30, even though yesterday, the president had explicitly and firmly asked him, in public (on B1TV), while making unprecedented accusations, that the National Bank is...

"We can celebrate, we can congratulate each other, but let's not get overexcited" - that could have been the slogan for the event of the decade - the IPO of Romgaz - on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

The Court of Bucharest yesterday decided to take into preventive custody for 29 days Ioan Mihăilă (member of the Supervisory Board of Hidroelectrica and advisor to Minister Delegate for Energy Constantin Niţă) and of Eugen Brădean (head of...

The Minister of the Economy, Varujan Vosganian, yesterday handed in his honorable resignation from the Government. Yesterday at lunch, after the request to begin prosecution against him was rejected in the plenum of the senate, minister Vosganian...

• "At < Transelectrica >, I would like to go in with a scalpel"  

From the presidency of Traian Băsescu we got a bad lesson:

The methods for rigging the elections are divided into two major categories:

• The Leu gained against the Euro 

Yes it was very frightening indeed for us, the people who live close to the troubled areas, and our anxious relatives.. Four nights of constant police sirens and helicopters. Broken shop windows and despairing shop keepers who cannot afford to...

• Ioan Botiş