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The law on the capping of interest at non-banking financial institutions and the limitation of claims requested by debt collectors, a normative act that joins the law of giving in payment, citizens have a shield that protects them against any...

The use by natural persons of a digital identification number, as an alternative to the personal numerical code, the option to choose the method of payment of taxes and the modernization of the sale of confiscated goods through online auctions...

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...

The first month of summer was more hectic than usual due to the fact that, in addition to the budgetary problems faced by the Government, on June 9 we had European parliamentary and local elections, new amendments to normative acts in the field...

The placing under judicial control with the payment of a 500,000 lei bond of reserve general Florian Coldea, former head of the Romanian Intelligence Service, was the breaking news at the end of last week, after marathon hearings that lasted 13...

The National Recovery and Resilience Plan is not a failure, but its implementation has been delayed for a year and a half (18 months) due to the indecision of the governing coalition in Bucharest, PNL-PSD, which has not implemented certain...

Social convulsions have been a constant in the first three months of the current year, with a peak in January, when almost half of the country's major cities were blocked by farmers' and transporters' protests, which lasted for three...

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...

Teachers receive good news from the union. Next year brings salary increases. The Education budget will increase by 6 billion lei in 2024 based on agreements with the government, money that will be used to raise salaries in the education system...

The national energy system is prepared for the cold season 2023-2024, under the conditions of a normal winter, said yesterday, the participants of the 10th edition of the Energy Forum - "Strategy for the winter 2023-2024 in the current...

Radu Soviani: Mr. Stolojan, how does mass privatization look now compared to the initial intentions for this program?

University professor and economist Mircea Coşea believes that the fiscal measures that the Government wants to implement will inhibit economic growth, will lead to the transition of several companies to the black economy, because the respective...

Garbage piling up near lampposts, rising as high as 5-6 meters, I even photographed some yesterday next to my home, in the District 1 of the French Clotilde Armand, who was appointed as mayor in the last election, which some claim she stole,...

The new version of the law of giving in payment, passed by president Klaus Iohannis in mid-May, seems to have convinced the courts, which have already begun ruling in favor of debtors.

Reporter: What is your view on the current economic situation?

March 2020 has seen several firsts, the effects of which are already being felt in the economic environment. The coronavirus epidemic has already started being felt in the first days of March, when a large number of companies decided that their...

More than four and a half years after the explosion of the Swiss franc, (CHF), after repeated protests by debtors, wide scale debates in the Parliament, concerning draft laws on the matter, promises by politicians and banks that they would...

The Finance Ministry is preparing the tax amnesty for all companies in Romania, for all debts owed to the state budget until December 31st, 2018. The amnesty is dissimulated into a project where the ministry claims it is a financial restructuring...

• Interview with economist Lucian Isar 

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".

PNL senator Daniel Cătălin Zamfir does not disappoint. His draft law concerning the capping of interest rates was the first that appeared on the agenda yesterday, in the common meeting of the specialized commissions and despite the controversies...

The lending boom in the second half of the last decade was caused by a combination of factors, with the most important being, according to the opinion of the NBR, the overall trend towards deregulation and laissez-faire worldwide, the full...

Four consumer associations - Parakletos, the Association of Romanian Financial Services Users (AURSF), the Association for the Counseling of Romanian Bank Customers and Insurance Policy Holders (ACCBAR) and the Pro-Consumer Association (APC...

The amounts paid to banks by the National Fund for the Guarantee and Counterguarantee of Small and Medium Enterprises Loans (FNGCIMM) for the First Home Program get recouped from debtors, through foreclosure, by the National Fiscal Administration...

Steven Van Groningen confuses me with every one of his actions: "I care. That's why I was in that square", the Dutchman who is the president of Austrian bank Raiffeisen Bank, the chairman of the Council of Foreign Investors (for a...

In the ruling of the Constitutional Court of Romania, (CCR) concerning the law of conversion, a grave mistake has been made, some specialists claim, who stress that the CCR has also invoked the principle of bicameralism when it has ruled that the...

The First Home program may disappear this year, lawyer Gheorghe Piperea said in an interview.

Street protests in front of government buildings, heated debates over some legislative projects, disagreements between bankers and MPs, threats, arguments, debtors boycotting banks, foreclosures, empty promises, many lawsuits, suicides - this is...

Reporter: PSD leader Liviu Dragnea says he found a "hole" in the budget of 10 - 14 billion lei, because of the positive rectification of November, and the technocrats are defending themselves claiming that the deficit of 2016 was...

The suspicion that the program of the PSD is nothing but a bunch of promises that won't be honored, once the party's members get into the government, was countered by the president of the party, Liviu Dragnea, who invoked the guarantee of...

I can understand why there is infighting among liberals after losing the elections, but they shouldn't be upset, because in fact, the electorate has chosen liberalism.

Reporter: Do you think that in 2009, we actually needed the loan that Romania took out from the international lenders? Why did we get to the point of having to call upon the international financial institutions, when the government had...

One of the class action lawsuits in which lawyer Gheorghe Piperea is defending bank borrowers has been brought before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), through the preliminary questions addressed by the Court of Appeal of Oradea....

The Finance Minister tucked her head between her shoulders and did not utter as much as a whimper anymore, after the article "Schäuble la Ministerul finanţelor, ca Iglesias Jr. la Antena3" (Schäuble at the Ministry of Finance, just like...

"Make, I'm tired of living with an old fogey like you. Don't come looking for me; I have gone over the border with my German guy into Hungary..."

UPDATE 17:22 Raiffeisen Bank has not sponsored the Romanian Ministry of Public Finance, nor yesterday's event that Wolfgang Schäuble, German Finance Minister attended, the bank stated in a response sent to the "BURSA" editorial...

NBR governor Mugur Isărescu apparently ignores the fact that banks are refusing to negotiate with their customers and insists, after the passing of the law of giving in payment, that the parties of the loan agreement should negotiate:...

Three media people (I find it hard to call them journalists) were trying to outdo each other in presenting comparative calculations originating from the specialists of the NBR, proving using arithmetic that loans denominated in CHF have been more...