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Our country went through one of the most tense periods in its recent history in 2025, a year in which political instability, budgetary imbalances and inflationary pressures formed a dangerous mix that pushed the economy to the limit of support....

The indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) entered a strong upward trend in the second part of last year, after the outcome of the presidential elections in May confirmed the country's pro-European trajectory. The BET index, which...

The second semester of last year marked our country's entry into a fiscal-budgetary consolidation phase forced by reality, after a first semester that pushed the deficit to 3.68% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and amplified the risk of a...

Energy distributors support the elimination, from April 1, 2026, of the price cap on natural gas, but point out that, in order to reduce the impact of undesirable developments on the wholesale market, solutions must be found to protect consumers,...

The third quarter of 2025 was dominated by the efforts of the Government led by Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan to restore macroeconomic balance through firm, often unpopular measures. After a first semester marked by a deficit of 3.68% of GDP and...

The end of the summer calendar recorded a tense economic and political reality in our country, in which the governing coalition was forced to combine financial stability measures with attempts to restore confidence in the population and external...

The increase in the general VAT rate from 19% to 21%, the increase in reduced VAT rates, the increase in excise duties, the increase and introduction of new taxes and fees approved by the first package of fiscal measures assumed by the Bologna...

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) indices reached new historical records last month, following developments that were clearly superior to the major international markets, which suggests that the fiscal-budgetary correction measures announced by...

The main indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) recorded double-digit increases in the first half of the year, boosted by the result of the presidential elections on May 18, which confirmed the country's pro-European trajectory for the...

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) indices rose in the second quarter of the year, a period marked by global trade tensions and the domestic electoral context. The election of Nicuşor Dan as president initially generated a positive momentum for...

The steep upward movement of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) indices catalyzed by the election of Nicuşor Dan as president of our country stopped last month, in a tense international context, while domestic attention was captured by the...

With the return of the electricity market in our country to free market status, with the termination of the cap-compensation scheme on July 1, consumers will directly feel the market variations, and for many of them, the energy bill could become...

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) indices recorded significant increases last month, amid the confirmation of the country's pro-European course, highlighted by the election of independent candidate Nicuşor Dan as president, in a context...

Ten years of presidency ended with a resignation, with Klaus Iohannis thus ending his two terms not in glory, but in disgrace. On February 10, the former president announced his resignation in order to avoid a political crisis generated by the...

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Francois Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the National Bank of France, recently declared in Davos and Paris that a general mobilization of private savings is needed to support the...

The Association of Electricity and Gas Suppliers of Romania (AFEER) calls on the authorities to respect the legal deadline for the liberalization of the electricity market, stability for April 1, 2025, warning that any extension of the price cap...

The authorities in Bucharest intend to ask for compensation from the European Commission, due to the significant differences in energy prices between Eastern and Western Europe, the Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja, said yesterday, during...

• "The rate of distribution of profit to dividends remained close to that of last year, with a decreasing yield, but still above the average of BSE issuers", the report states 

Due to the existence of an oligopoly in the energy balancing market, which imposes ever higher prices, a significant part of the energy suppliers could close their doors in the next three months, if the Government, the Ministry of Energy or the...

The increase in energy prices, including the increase in fuel prices, the increase in RCA tariffs and the fiscal measures taken by the Government last autumn, but with applicability from January 1, 2024, will increase the number of transport...

The state has stopped paying the settlement of the costs borne by the energy suppliers for the invoices issued for the month of February 2023, the representatives of the Romanian Electricity Suppliers Association (AFEER) stated yesterday, during...

• "The free market is not a political desideratum, but a law of nature" 

• (Interview with Ondrej Safar, CEO of CEZ Romania) 

Chimcomplex Borzeşti, the chemical plant which has taken over a large portion of the assets of Oltchim, has made its strategic mission to become a chemical company that is strong regionally and integrated, said Tivadar Runtag, the new CEO of the...

• "Starting with July 1st, the prices of electricity for end users will depend on the competitive market"  

The 114 Emergency Ordinance passed at the end of last year has led to discontent in the energy market as well, because it sets a tax of 2% on the turnover of companies in this sector and caps the price of natural gas and electricity to 68...

The European Commission is encouraging dialogue with the Romanian authorities concerning Emergency Government Ordinance 64 of 2016 concerning the natural gas sector, but if the issues on this matter cannot be resolved, we may resort to the...

Niculae Havrileţ, the president of the National Authority for Regulation in the Energy Sector (ANRE), together with other members of the Regulatory Committee of the ANRE, will arrive before the Commission for the Investigation of the activity of...

The National Authority for the Regulation of the Energy Market (ANRE) has asked for the reconsideration of gas storage policies in Romania to be made a priority, Emil Calotă, the vice-president of the ANRE recently said, in the debates in the...

The price of electricity and its increase on the Day-ahead market (PZU) of the OPCOM exchange keeps causing discontent among the players and specialists on the market and is keeping consumers on edge, as they will probably feel the price hikes of...

The European Commission reacted on Tuesday, after the deputies of the Commission for Industries and Services have passed a series of amendments to the Natural Gas Law, according to which the gas producers will be required to fully trade their...

The intense debates in the Industries Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, about Government Emergency Ordinance 64/2016 concerning the liberalization of the natural gas market did not yield any results, because the Ministry of Energy thought...

Reporter:How do you see the scandal from the Industries Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, concerning Emergency Government Ordinance 64/2016 on the liberalization of natural gas starting with April 1st?

The Hunedoara energy complex needs a deep restructuring to be able to survive on the domestic energy market under competitive conditions, Gert-Jan Koopman, deputy general director in the State Aid Department of the European Commission.

It is the domestic natural gas market that has called for the "freeze" of the liberalization schedule in mid-2014, Niculae Havrileţ, the president of the ANRE told us.

The Court of Bucharest recently ruled that the former president of Bancorex, Răzvan Temeşan (ex lege the current employee on the equivalent position of CEO of BCR, according to the ruling no. 51 of the High Court of Cassation and Justice), must...