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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...

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 end of the calendar autumn was marked by the presidential and parliamentary elections that took place on November 24 and December 1. For this reason, in order to increase its chances before the election and to maximize the chances of its own...

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...

The Government adopted the new Energy Strategy of Romania 2025-2035, with the perspective of 2050, a programmatic document that establishes six essential strategic objectives for the sustainable development of the national energy sector: energy...

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...

The preparation of the campaigns for the presidential and parliamentary elections that will take place on November 24, respectively December 1, led the Government to increase the amount of budget expenditures in the second month of autumn in...

Achieving a sustainable economy and reaching some targets of the Green Deal have the support of the banking system in our country, which in recent years has introduced several green credit products, even if the interest rates charged on some of...

The national economy will register an economic growth between 1.2 and 1.8% at the end of 2024, much lower than the one announced by the Government, of 2.8%, based on the data provided by the National Strategy and Forecasting Commission , said...

The third quarter of 2024 was marked by a series of major challenges for Romania's economy. High summer temperatures have led to increased energy consumption, and the government has taken drastic measures to cover energy needs, including the...

Water is one of the vital resources of life which is heavily affected by pollution.

The first month of autumn brought a series of economic and financial challenges for our country, especially in the context of a growing budget deficit, high inflation and volatility of energy prices. However, the Ciolacu government continued to...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is "an incompetent and corrupt organisation", claims Dr Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, as quoted by news site brusselssignal.eu. Christopher...

The national economy was characterized in the first semester of 2024 by a moderate growth in the food and industrial sector, a decrease in activity in the HoReCa sector and a growing trade deficit, according to the Half-Yearly Report prepared by...

Environmental protection and resource saving are supported by more and more people. A Eurobarometer survey published by the European Commission highlights the strong support of European citizens for the European Union's energy policies....

There are also great victories in the fight against environmental degradation. The ozone layer, essential for protecting life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation, is in a constant process of regeneration, according to a recent report by...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) yesterday kept its forecast for global oil demand unchanged in 2024, but downgraded estimates for 2025, citing the impact of Chinese consumption, according to Reuters.

The middle of the calendar summer constituted a real challenge for the national energy system, in view of the increase in electricity consumption due to a prolonged period of 10 consecutive hot days, when temperatures of over 40 degrees in the...

The main indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) marked a succession of new historical records in the first half of the year, in a general international context conducive to risky assets, boosted by internal elements such as the financial...

The social and political convulsions of the first three months of the current year left their mark on the entire semester, because the PSD-PNL coalition turned to the state piggy bank to calm them down. Thus, the Ciolacu government decided to...

This month, suppliers face huge prices on the balancing market, prices that have even reached a level of 16,000 lei per Megawatt, Laurentiu Urluescu, president of the Romanian Energy Suppliers Association (AFEER), told us.

The upward trend of the main indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), which started in the second half of last year, continued in June, during which our market was under the specter of dividends granted by its main companies.

The Board of Directors of the National Bank of Romania decided on Friday July 5, 2024 decrease in the monetary policy interest rate to 6.75% per annum, from 7% per annum, starting from July 8, 2024, decrease in the interest rate for the credit...

Romania's electricity consumption decreased by 8%, and natural gas consumption decreased by 21% in the last three years, which led to a negative trend in the industrial performance of our country, Senator Antal Lorant said yesterday (UDMR),...

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...

The fact that we are in an election year does not influence the monetary policy decisions of the National Bank of Romania (BNR), which has proven to be independent, believes Lucian Anghel, Deputy CEO at Libra Internet Bank.

Greed, bad decisions, wrong experiments have caused immense damage to nature. Humans, guilty of climate warming, represent the same "danger" for our planet as "the meteorite that exterminated the dinosaurs", declared the UN...

Artificial Intelligence and innovative technologies are the means by which energy efficiency targets can be reached and by which the ESG concept can be implemented in real estate, both in the area of residential buildings and in the area of...

The widening cost of living crisis and rising inflation in recent years have made many households wary of their bank balances, and this sentiment is particularly pronounced in Greece, according to survey data by Consumer Insights Statista.

The National Bank of Romania is trying to gradually reduce inflation without disrupting the economy and creating a recession, Governor Mugur Isărescu said yesterday, during the conference where he presented the "Quarterly Report on...

The second month of spring was a stormy one for the PSD-PNL political coalition, which had to face the media revelations about how the doctor Cătălin Cîrstoiu - the candidate of both parties for the position of general mayor of the Capital - made...

The capital market in Romania can have an important role for the reconstruction of Ukraine and the development of the Republic of Moldova, argued the participants at the 10th edition of the CFA CEE Investment Conference, an event that this year...

Through the National Recovery and Resilience Program (PNRR), Romania has committed to carrying out tax reform in 2025. Until the elections for the Romanian Parliament in December 2024, citizens would have the opportunity to participate in an...

The main indexes of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) marked a succession of historical records, the first quarter of the year, in a general climate favorable to risky assets.

The European Central Bank (ECB) decided yesterday to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged for the fifth consecutive month, but signaled that it could cut the cost of credit soon, even as investors question a similar decision by the Reserve...

Political decision-makers in Bucharest continued in the last month of the first quarter of the current year to adopt decisions regarding the extension of some price capping measures and to dilute the provisions of Law 296/2023 and GEO 115/2023...

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...

With an index of 49 points out of a possible 100 for the first semester of 2024, Romanian entrepreneurship is below the threshold of emergence, according to the work carried out by the National Council of Small and Medium-sized Private...

The spot price of gold reached a new record level yesterday, on foreign markets, against the background of expectations related to the interest rate cut by the US central bank (Federal Reserve - Fed), but also of geopolitical tensions and solid...

Despite some improvements, our country still faces the vulnerability of fiscal revenues, and large budget deficits and high inflation rates, which are all above pre-pandemic levels, make the economy potentially vulnerable to shocks, the European...