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The National Bank of Romania (BNR) has revised upward the inflation forecast for the end of this year, to 4.9% compared to the previous forecast of 4%, and estimates inflation of 3.5% for the end of next year, at the limit of the range above the...

• October 1 

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...

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...

Un proiect pe termen mediu şi lung al birocraţiei UE, care s-a derulat pas cu pas, pe ascuns, printre picături şi crize succesive ori suprapuse, este independenţa fiscală a UE faţă de statele membre.

The escalation of the budget deficit indicates structural problems, which can only be remedied through urgent fiscal reforms that lead to budgetary consolidation, the Fiscal Council states in the report for the year 2023, published yesterday, a...

After the American vice president Kamala Harris presented at the end of last week her economic program as a candidate for the position of the president of the USA, we wonder if what is called the Simion Plan still looks like a utopia - as...

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 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...

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 need for a real partnership between political decision-makers and civil society, between governments, parliaments and citizens, was the main topic of debate at the 12th edition of the Global Forum of Modern Direct Democracy, an event that...

The Plenary of the Parliament is to express itself today through a final vote on the state budget law and the state social insurance budget law, normative acts that were debated last night and voted on articles and annexes, in the meeting of the...

After examining the first set of documents sent by the Government on December 9 regarding the state budget for 2024 and the budget projections for the period 2025-2027, the Fiscal Council considers that it is very possible that the budget deficit...

The terrorist attacks that took place on October 7 in Israel, followed by the bombing of Gaza by the armed forces led from Tel Aviv, the attack in Brussels and the return of terrorist threats in the states of Western Europe made October the...

The application of a global tax of 2% on the assets of the 499 billionaires in the European Union would generate budgetary revenues of approximately 42.3 billion dollars (40 billion euros) for the European states, compared to the 6 billion...

Cristian Erbaşu, the president of the Federation of Construction Societies Patronages (FPSC), claims that the reduction of the fiscal facilities previously granted to this activity sector will finally be reflected in the price paid by customers....

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...

Marcel Boloş, the Minister of Finance, claims that the fiscal measures discussed by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in Brussels at the end of last week, must be implemented,...

The fiscal rules proposed by the European Commission endanger the public investments necessary to combat climate change and, if they were applied, our country could increase its allocation for green investments by only 1%, without jeopardizing...

European funds represent a "golden nugget", which can mitigate the costs of macroeconomic adjustment, facilitate the necessary reforms (including the modernization of the Romanian state), facilitate the financing of the balance of...

Drawing up the state budget draft, resuming the school year, in the second semester, with pupils and students physically attending courses, the waiving of free access to railroad transport for students, the protests of the public sector employees...

• (Interview with Mr. Cristian Pârvan, AOAR Secretary General) 

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...

The US-China trade war will slow the growth of the global economy this year at the lowest annual rate since the 2008-2009 crisis, warned the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Cea mai masivă bulă din istoria pieţelor financiare stă să explodeze, spune Julian Emanuel, strateg-şef la firma de brokeraj BTIG, care adaugă însă într-un interviu la CNBC că efectele vor fi pozitive, el făcând referile la bula din piaţa...

Not only the weather was hot in July, but the economic, social and political matters as well. Even though it began with the validation of Mugur Isărescu for the sixth time at the helm of the NBR, it went on with Simona Halep winning Wimbledon and...

The "pension apocalypse is coming"! The more or less qualified keep talking in the written press, TV and on the radio. The uncertainty is being preserved - deliberately by some, by the government members out of pure stupidity!

The urge "Mircea, act like you're working!", back in the days of the so-called revolution of December 1989, was brought back recently by a new "director".

The Romanian Commercial Bank (BCR) has proposed to shareholders the distribution of dividends of 228.12 million lei, out of the profit of 570 million lei, for last year, this being the first year with such an item on the agenda of the General...

UniCredit Bank analysts are issuing a warning that the Romanian government is repeating many of the mistakes that have led to the recession of 2009-2010. The quoted experts are mentioning both the fiscal policy that is risky for the economy, as...

Greece's "glory" days, when any negotiation of the new plans for the "rescue" held the front page of the European newspaper, are in the past.

Raiffeisen Bank has snuck a gloomy prediction for the Romanian economy in the prospectus of the MedLife IPO, which it intermediates.

The Austrian authorities have taken yet another step on the mined field of financial "stability" of the so-called hard core of the Eurozone.

The European Central Bank (ECB) must keep calm and show that it is keeping inflation under control, but perhaps the governments should relax the fiscal policies, says Ewald Nowotny, an executive of the institution.

The shareholders of the BSE would probably not agree to the clauses that the Board of Directors of the BSE went along with in the contract signed with the CEO of the BSE Ludwik Sobolewski, if they knew what they were.

Reporter: Not long ago, Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, was saying that the European Union it has exited the recession and that it is on an upward trend. To what extent can we say that the financial turbulence is a...

The electronic and electrotechnical industry are requesting the creation of a bank with Romanian capital that would finance competitive activities of applied research, innovation and production.

Reporter: Mr. Sebastian Vlădescu, what is your opinion concerning the huge losses suffered by the Romanian banking system in 2012 and what repercussions do you feel they will have on the Romanian economy?

Reporter: Mr. Sebastian Vlădescu, what is your opinion concerning the huge losses suffered by the Romanian banking system in 2012 and what repercussions do you feel they will have on the Romanian economy?