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The Parliament established following the 2020 elections ends its four-year mandate today, a period that can be characterized as one marked by major crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the energy crisis following the war in Ukraine, political...

The fight against tobacco consumption has reached a new level. The law aimed at gradually transforming the United Kingdom into a smoke-free country passed a first stage in parliament this week, where it was adopted by MPs with an overwhelming...

Dividend stocks have seen gains over time, even during recessions, according to a visualcapitalist.com analysis, which presents the top 15 "dividend kings" in 2024, identified by FinanceCharts, based on data available in October....

The Pro WEEE Coalition and the Ministry of the Environment, Water and Forests (MMAP) launched the information and awareness campaign "Hand over defective electrical and electronic equipment for recycling!". Ecotic, a founding member of...

Our country ranks first in the ranking of investigations completed in 2023 by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) regarding the use of EU funds managed or spent in whole or in part at the national or regional level, the Brussels-based...

Minorii deprind din ce în ce mai rapid apucăturile proaste. Consumul de alcool şi de ţigări electronice în rândul tinerilor cu vârste cuprinse între 11 şi 15 ani este "alarmant", potrivit unui raport al filialei europene a Organizaţiei...

Juveniles learn bad tricks more and more quickly. The consumption of alcohol and electronic cigarettes among young people between the ages of 11 and 15 is "alarming", according to a report by the European branch of the World Health...

According to the crime index for last year published by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, a non-governmental organization based in Switzerland, with a score of 4.58 our country ranks 27th out of 44 European states,...

The waste suffocates nature and most of the time the authorities assist impassively.

The fiscal measures taken last year by the Government will contribute in 2024 to the increase in insolvencies among companies active in traditional trade and distribution firms, Constantin Dumitriu, vice-president of the Association of Romanian...

The business environment appreciates the fact that the Government has taken the necessary steps in the direction of digitization and taxation, but for the success of the respective reform it is necessary that the ANAF staff have the necessary...

It could be a significant day: today, when the appointment of the Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF) leadership for the next term is scheduled in Parliament, the parliamentary majority could express satisfaction with the bribes received from...

JTI Romania launched, yesterday, Ploom X - its first product with low risk potential (based on tobacco heating, not burning). It will be available, for now, in a number of stores in Bucharest, as well as online.

The 1% tax on turnover will have a negative impact on the economic sector of goods distribution, and implicitly on the national economy, it is stated, in a press release sent to the Editor, by the Association of Romanian Goods Distribution...

The four-year excise tax increase calendar will last almost two years, says Gilda Lazăr, Director of Corporate Affairs and Communication of JTI Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria, in the context of the publication in public debate of the Fiscal Code...

Companies that exceed a turnover of 50 million euros and banks will pay a tax of 1% on turnover provides for the draft law on some fiscal budgetary measures to ensure the financial sustainability of Romania in the long term posted, yesterday, in...

Philip Morris International (PMI) announced yesterday a new wave of investments in its Otopeni factory, where an additional $130 million will be spent to increase production capacity and transform the facility from a cigarette factory into a...

E-ţigaretele şi dispozitivele care încălzesc tutunul sunt mai puţin nocive decât ţigaretele normale şi pot fi folosite ca prim pas în renunţarea la fumat, au afirmat, ieri, mai mulţi experţi din comunitatea internaţională de medici, în cadrul...

Last year, the National Bank of Romania (BNR) missed both the inflation target as well as the consumer prices forecasts. The National Institute of Statistics (INS) announced yesterday an annual inflation rate of 4% last year.

Economic growth of 4.1%, budget deficit of 3.59%, average inflation rate of 3.1% - these are the main macro-economic indicators that the budget for next year was built around, according to the Report on the macroeconomic situation for the year...

• Even though S&P expects that next year we will begin a process of significant fiscal consolidation, the rigid structure of the budget and the volatility of the political environment represent risks to this hypothesis 

The annual inflation rate in the Eurozone has remained stable in August compared to July, at 0.2%, according to a preliminary estimate published on Wednesday by the European Statistics Office (Eurostat).

• Interview with PSD senator Valer Marian, the vice-president of the Commission for the investigation of abuse, fighting corruption and petitions 

The legal market for cigarettes had a positive evolution over the last two years, mostly due to the dramatic drop in the illicit trade, said Adrian Popa, Corporate & Regulatory Affairs Director of cigarette maker "British American...

This year, "Philip Morris" Romania will invest 1 million Euros in the modernization of the plant it owns in Otopeni, with the investment consisting in the installation of a new, more energy efficient cooling unit, said Andrei Vasilescu,...

The actions to fight contraband seem to have entered a certain "relaxation" stage, Gabriel Berca, the minister of Administration and Internal Affairs said: "I have warned that I do not feel like things are over and I have announced...

Last year, the employees of the border police impounded for the purpose of confiscation - by themselves or in cooperation with several other institutions - a number of approximately 9.26 million packs of cigarettes, worth about 50.5 million lei....

The black market for cigarettes fell 2% in January compared to November last year, from 15% to 13%, according to the latest data provided by "Novel Research".

• Interview with Valeriu Tabără, former minister of Agriculture and of Rural Development - MADR 

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He likes to say that he has now reached that part of life where he spends what he has accumulated in the other part, but Mişa Rotenberg, who lives in two locations - in Romania, where he was born and in Israel, where he made money - told us this...

• Interview with PSD senator PSD Valer Marian the vice-president of the Commission for investigating abuse, fighting corruption and for petitions  

Tobacco entered Europe after Christopher Columbus"s discovery of America, in 1492. Tobacco was imported in 1518, in the Iberian Peninsula, by a Spanish missionary.

Gilda Lazăr, corporate affairs director of JTI România, says that making a fine cigarette very much resembles the art of making a quality wine. In order to give a premium cigarette its flavor, up to 40 tobaccos from different sources may be...

Reporter: How would you describe the domestic tobacco market?

The measures to fight cigarette contraband are a priority for the National Customs Authority (ANV), which drew up the National Strategy for Fighting Illegal Cigarette Traffic, its representatives said. As such, the ANV has planned to improve,...

The level of the total excise in effect this year is 76.6 Euros/1,000 cigarettes, according to the officials of the Ministry of Public Finance (MFP), which states that the total level of the cigarette excise for the 2011-2018 period was set by...