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The severe drought affecting the Italian island of Sicily has reached critical heights, leaving many residents of the town of Caltanissetta without running water for over two months. In a situation more reminiscent of the difficulties of...

At the end of July, ANAF exceeded the threshold of 50 billion lei in receipts from the state budget, announced on Friday, on the official Facebook page, Marcel Boloş, the Minister of Finance. According to the official, ANAF's seven-month...

The checks carried out at economic agents on the coast this summer season will be under the light of advice and prevention, said Paul Anghel, the general director of the National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC), on the occasion of the...

Yesterday, the French Ministry of Finance requested in court to fine Carrefour for the contracts with franchised stores that contain "significant imbalances", reports Reuters.

In just two decades, the annual global production of plastic waste has doubled, from 180 million tons to more than 350 million tons, according to the Global Plastics Outlook report of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development...

The democratic exercise of voting seems to be taking root also among Romanian citizens, if we take into account the fact that, in yesterday's combined European parliamentary and local elections, a better participation percentage was recorded...

Several countries among the 38 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have made significant progress in reducing income inequality between men and women.

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...

Traditionally, the second month of the year should be marked by the beginning of the first parliamentary session and less by the visibility of the work carried out by the government, but the electoral year 2024 seems out of the ordinary, in view...

The statements of the mayor of Sector 1, Clotilde Armand, related to the closing of the town hall, caused a wave of reactions. Following these statements, the Archdiocese of Bucharest announces that it disapproves of the use for electoral...

The Ministry of Culture has repeatedly announced that the restoration of heritage buildings is a short- and medium-term priority. In the field, however, things are still bad, and not necessarily because of the authorities. Several dozen...

The reorganization of ANAF must represent a support for entrepreneurs and not their transformation into victims of excessive controls, states the National Council of Small and Medium Private Enterprises in Romania, in a press release sent to the...

The ceilings on the price of energy, RCA policies and the commercial addition to basic foods will continue this year, due to the four rounds of elections - European, local, parliamentary and presidential, but the competition authority will ensure...

The National Council of Small and Medium Private Enterprises will ask Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu to extend until December 31, 2024 the grace period in which fines are not applied for companies' deviations from the obligations regarding the...

Last year, the governments of Ciucă and Ciolacu failed to comply with the state budget law approved in December 2022, a normative act drawn up by the PSD-PNL governing coalition and which provided for an increase in budget expenditures, but also...

The first government round within a political coalition marked the second half of last year not through the lens of exceptional results, but through the continuation of taking measures that had a negative impact on the business environment, in...

The National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) fined three electricity suppliers with almost 18 million lei and sanctioned two others with a warning, because they purchased through the Centralized Electric Energy Purchase Mechanism (MACEE) a...

The "train" ordinance, which was on the agenda of yesterday's Government meeting, once again disrupted the business environment, because, in addition to postponing some payments and restructuring the activity of some public...

Several companies from our country are being investigated by the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) for being part of an intra-community VAT fraud scheme, a scheme that includes companies from over 30 countries, according to a press...

In the context in which the state budget is facing a deficit of over 56 billion lei, and budget expenses are 14% higher than last year, for which the Ciucă Cabinet approved GEO 90/2023, for the reduction of budget expenses for the year 2023 , the...

Pollution of a river by a company, pollution that would have serious consequences - for example, intoxication of several people or even the death of some of them - will be punished with a maximum of 10 years in prison for the individual...

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 explosion at an illegally operating LPG station in Crevedia, a disaster that has so far resulted in four deaths and 54 injuries, revealed last month the corruption within the Romanian state and the inefficiency of the work of some public...

The Crevedia case could have been avoided, but the authorities did not want to; a deliberate assassination took place here. Thus, the Crevedia disaster, from the end of last week, gave us a new complete picture of what a failed state means. Only...

USR president, deputy Cătălin Drulă, former Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, proposes to the PSD-PNL parliamentary majority the implementation of several measures in the new session of the Legislature, which will lead to an increase in...

The Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), the political formation whose president is George Simion, risks a maximum fine of 20 million euros because the mobile application used by the party would have publicly exposed the personal data of...

The system of "Cap and Trade" originated in the U.S.A. by George Bush Senior in the early 1990's as a response to the phenomenon of acid rain which was a pollution of the rain by excess carbon in the atmosphere causing the rain to be...

The approval of the state budget, the third wave of pandemic, new movement restrictions, spontaneous subway strike and protests against government measures are the defining elements of the most tumultuous month since the beginning of 2021 so far....

Thousands of people all over the country have begun taking to the street to protest against the restrictions imposed by the government last week, where protesters no longer abided by the anti-Covid restrictions, as a concrete proof of their...

Twelve heads heads of department and services have so far lost their well paid jobs from the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF), during the term of Nicu Marcu, in the context of the reorganization of the institution. Some of them have left, some...

Emil Boc, the mayor of Cluj-Napoca, has set new goals for the development of the city. One of them is the fulfillment of the European Union's requirement to be a climate-neutral city. It also has in mind some major investments, such as the...

The digital transformation of the economy represents a challenge for the political decision makers in Bucharest, as it represents an important objective of the European Commission meant to contribute to economic decarbonation. Unfortunately, many...

In the battle with Covid-19 virus, various policies have been adopted around the world, of which I would mention the two extreme positions. Thus, some states followed the Darwinian theory of "Survival Of The Fittest". Others considered...

On October 9th, it has been two years since, following the completion of the deal whereby SIF Oltenia (SIF5) sold (to Erste Group Bank) its 6.29% stake (1,023,534,303 shares) in the Romanian Commercial Bank (BCR) for 140 million Euros.

After Romania was in a state of emergency for two months, Klaus Iohannis is following the European trend and starting today decides that we could go to the state of alert, in a first step towards returning to normal.

HSBC Holdings Plc, the biggest banking group, was partially exonerated in a case of manipulation of the Euribor, as the European General Court decided to revoke the fine of 33.6 million Euros levied upon the lender.

Reporter: Ce pondere au vânzările din perioada sărbătorilor de iarnă în totalul vânzărilor anuale realizate de Le Manoir?

The financial banking system seems to be the focus of most of the investigation entities. After being audited by the National Tax Administration Agency (ANAF) and by the National Consumer Protection Authority (ANPC), some of the banks which...

Banca Transilvania intends to buy an initial stake of over 39% of Victoriabank, the third largest bank in the Republic of Moldova, and together with the EBRD, would own a majority stake, according to a press release sent yesterday.

The National Consumer Protection Agency (ANPC) recently fined no less than 15 commercial banks, on charges of misleading advertising, according to sources close to the situation.