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A recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science suggests that fog harvesting could offer a viable solution to water shortages in extremely arid areas, such as Chile's Atacama Desert. The method, which involves...

Klaus Iohannis is leaving Cotroceni today. Definitively, following his resignation, after having served two full terms as president of the country, plus an almost two-month extension granted by the Constitutional Court. Iohannis is leaving...

The year 2024 was marked by economic-financial and socio-political convulsions, which accentuated Romania's vulnerabilities in the face of domestic and international challenges. From the alarming budget deficit to the uncontrolled increase in...

The German company Bosch is facing a reduction of 24% in gross profit achieved last year compared to 2023, due to the crisis facing the automotive industry and the machine construction sector, according to an article published at the end of last...

The decision of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) by which the entire process regarding the presidential elections was annulled on December 6, 2024, represents a dangerous precedent for European democracy, if we take into account the...

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...

Yesterday, in the plenary session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament approved the new European Commission for the 2024-2029 term, led by Ursula von der Leyen. The vote marks a landmark moment for Romania, as Roxana Mînzatu officially becomes...

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...

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and world-renowned philanthropist, is summoned to the court in the Dutch town of Leeuwarden on Wednesday, November 27, to be heard publicly in the case in which he is accused of fraud and damages caused by the...

Fires have devastated large parts of the world over the past decade. Last year, Europe, the Middle East and Africa suffered some of the worst forest fires since 2000, according to the Forest Fires 2023 report, published by the Commission's...

Elinor Ostrom received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009 for her outstanding contributions to the understanding of common resource management and the concept of polycentric governance.

"It's about the economy, stupid," the slogan coined by political strategist James Carville during Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign, still rings true more than 30 years later, according to a statista.com...

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...

Billionaire Bill Gates will be tried for alleged damages caused by the promotion of anti-Covid 19 vaccines, according to the decision taken by a court in the Netherlands, cited by the publication France-Soir. The complaint was initiated by a...

With the opening by the Bucharest Court, on October 7, 2024, of the insolvency procedure for the Nordis Management SRL company, following the disclosures published two days before by the Recorder publication, the biggest scandal of recent years...

Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, wants to centralize the allocation of funds from the EU budget in the period 2028-2034, which would lead to the cancellation of the financing of cohesion policy projects, which would...

The management of CCP.RO Bucharest recently had a proposal for another software to ensure the functioning of the Central Counterparty, according to our information.

In an unstable economic context and marked by multiple challenges, the debate on the establishment of a Sovereign Investment Fund (SIF) was recently relaunched in the public space, a topic that will be extensively analyzed in an event organized...

Plastic pollution continues to threaten aquatic environments at an alarming rate, with millions of tonnes of waste ending up in rivers and oceans every year. According to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

Roxana Mînzatu, the Ciolacu government's proposal for the position of European Commissioner from Romania, was nominated yesterday by Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, as one of the six vice-presidents of the...

Equity markets are reflections of growing economies, so we have every reason to believe that the long-term market trend is upward, said Dan Dascal, CEO of BT Asset Management.

Norway's Sovereign Investment Fund, formally known as the Global Government Pension Fund, is the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, managing $1.7 trillion in assets at the end of August 2024, according to data on the Bank's...

The nominal returns of the seven Pillar II private pension funds were around 8%, in the first seven months of this year, respectively 14-16% in the period July 2023 - July 2024, performances above those achieved in normal. They are really...

Odată cu expansiunea reţelelor de socializare din ultimii anii, companiile din România sunt mult mai expuse începerii şi escaladării unei crize de imagine, ceea ce are impact direct asupra evoluţiei financiare şi reputaţiei acestora, comparativ...

Faced with a shortage this summer, Athens' water management operator will activate additional sources to strengthen the supply network of the Greek capital, according to an announcement cited by AFP. The additional sources are located in...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell late last week gave the clearest indication yet that the U.S. central bank is about to do what markets have long expected - cut interest rates, which are currently at their highest high level of the last two...

• EU Harvest Decline 

Fires have ravaged vast territories across the globe this year. These fires, fueled by extreme weather conditions and climate change, have caused massive damage and triggered national and international emergency responses. This summer Canada is...

The European Parliament, with 401 votes in favor, 284 votes against, 15 abstentions and 7 null votes, decided yesterday to grant Ursula von der Leyen a new mandate as President of the European Commission, despite the fact that the EU Court of...

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...

• Palestinians, winners in social media 

Following the crises that followed from 2019 until now and the over-indebtedness of companies, individuals, but also of states, it is vital that the mechanisms to prevent insolvency or bankruptcy work correctly and an interpretation agreed by all...

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...

Less than half of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) prohibit anonymous donations for political financing, according to the data published in the report Anti-corruption and integrity -...

Romanian citizens who are in danger outside the national territory will benefit from the intervention of our country to ensure their protection, according to the draft law that will establish the National System for Integrated Management of...

Our country should make annual investments of one billion euros in order to achieve by 2026 all the targets and objectives passed in the energy chapter in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, the participants of the 11th edition of the...

Entrepreneurship is one of the key elements of the economic development of our country, which has shown resilience following the multiple crises that have marked the macroeconomic climate in recent years. There is potential, but it must be...

The Prosecutor's Office structures in the country are facing a serious personnel crisis, a crisis to which the 165 prosecutors who retired last year also contributed, in the context of legislative changes and discussions in the public space...

Reporter: Sierra Quadrant is one of the most important players in the consulting services market in Romania. What essentially defines your offer, your services?

The Financial Stability Fund of Greece (HFSF) has only one step left to complete the sale of its holdings in the main banks in the country, after the successful sale of all shares held in Piraeus Bank, ekathimerini.com announces.