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The development of online commerce has led to an increased risk of compulsive shopping and consumer over-indebtedness, said MEP Gheorghe Piperea, representative of the ECR political group in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer...

The European Union is currently unable to provide peacekeeping forces in the event of the creation of a demarcation line between Ukraine and Russia after the cessation of hostilities, a plan that has been advanced in recent days by officials...

Ilie Bolojan, former president of the Senate, assumed his duties as interim president yesterday after the Constitutional Court took note of Klaus Iohannis' resignation on Tuesday. Before becoming interim president, Ilie Bolojan suspended...

NATO member states that do not increase their defense spending to 5% of Gross Domestic Product will no longer have US protection in the event of a conflict, US President-elect Donald Trump said at a press conference in Palm Beach, USA, according...

• 1. Historical context: 

In 2024, two reports were published, prepared at the request of the European Commission. The first report, coordinated by Enrico Letta, is entitled "More than a Market" and refers to the transformation of the single market into a true...

The Pilon II private pension funds, to which employees in our country contribute 4.75% of their gross monthly income, bought shares in OMV Petrom, Hidroelectrica, Romgaz and BRD-Groupe Societe Generale, in the third quarter of the year, but they...

The national economy will register an economic growth between 1.2 and 1.8% at the end of 2024, much lower than the one announced by the Government, of 2.8%, based on the data provided by the National Strategy and Forecasting Commission , said...

Romania, Bulgaria, and Poland have become the main destinations for hiring IT specialists in Israeli start-up companies, as the war in Israel has forced them to move part of their operations abroad to ensure business continuity, according to an...

Companies and natural persons who pay their outstanding main debts to the state budget by August 31, 2024, will benefit from the cancellation of the ancillary debts calculated for the payment obligations, according to the emergency ordinance...

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...

The Pilon II private pension funds, to which employees in our country contribute 4.75% of their gross monthly income, bought Hidroelectrica, Romgaz and BRD-Groupe Societe Generale shares in the first six months of the year, but sold their...

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 European Commission criticizes the large number of emergency ordinances adopted by the Ciolacu government, stating that the legislation through the GEO is a source of concern for companies, especially when they look at the implementation of...

School grants have become a real headache for the authorities. The National Council for Combating Discrimination recommended to the Ministry of Education not to make any distinction in awarding scholarships between students from the private,...

The delays regarding the payment by the state of compensation for energy facts could increase significantly after the Government's approval of the draft normative act that will amend GEO 27/2022 through which the capping-compensation...

Raluca Turcan, the Minister of Culture, announced that the Government approved, last week, through a memorandum, a new investment program, "Cultural Foundations", which we proposed for saving historical monuments and building new...

The protests of taxi drivers and postal workers that took place yesterday in the Capital show once again that February is the preferred month for trade union movements, which in 2024 were prefaced in January by the street protests of transport...

Plus 10% DNA could be the title of the activity report for the past year of the respective institution presented, yesterday, in a festive setting at the headquarters of the National Bank of Romania, by Chief Prosecutor Marius Voineag, if we take...

The main banks listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) had an exceptional evolution last year, in conditions where high interest rates and a certain robustness of the economy, which meant that borrowers did not have payment problems, were...

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...

Radu Soviani: What is your relationship with the Drăgoi family?

The government was focused in the 4th financial quarter to reduce the budget deficit that it faced in the middle of the year and in the 3rd quarter, so that the officials in Brussels do not block the allocation of funds for our country from the...

The closure in 2023 of more than 6,700 criminal corruption cases due to the intervention of the criminal statute of limitations could have been avoided if the politicians who occupied the seat of Minister of Justice from November 2019 until now...

The main concern of the Government in the last month of autumn was to correct the errors crept into law 296/2023 through which fiscal changes were made, a normative act that passed the Parliament through the assumption of responsibility by the...

The narrative thread of Ukraine's resistance to Russia in the Western media, especially the one regarding the real chances of the counter-offensive to open the way to Crimea, has broken badly in recent weeks.

Banking commissions will not increase in Romania, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu announced after the working meeting he had last night with the representatives of the banking system in our country.

Cash facilitates tax evasion and is expensive for companies, said Bogdan Chiriţoiu, the president of the Competition Council, during a press conference yesterday.

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...

Premierul Marcel Ciolacu urmează să se întâlnească în cursul acestei săptămâni cu specialiştii din Ministerul Finanţelor şi BNR, dar şi cu reprezentanţii micilor întreprinzători, băncilor şi societăţii civile "pentru a lua o decizie pe...

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu is to meet this week with specialists from the Ministry of Finance and the National Bank of Romania, but also with representatives of small entrepreneurs, banks and civil society "to make a decision on the...

The exit from the insolvency of the Romanian state is done on the back of the business environment by means of law 296/2023 through which new fiscal measures were introduced, the participants of the conference "Austerity measures vs. the...

The limitation of cash payments is not a measure to combat tax evasion or corruption, given that a number of Western countries have not imposed such limitations, but have a better collection of taxes and fees than Romania, he stated, on the page...

The import of Ukrainian grains will be banned in our country for the next 30 days, Florin Barbu, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said yesterday, who said he would sign an order to this effect.

Players' agents will no longer be able, from 1 October 2023, to mediate transfers from one club to another, unless they obtain a license to do so following the completion of an examination organized by FIFA, and clubs that will carry out...

The government wants to subsidize with 2 lei per liter half of the fuel consumption of farmers last year, to which the excise subsidy of 1.56 lei will be added, Florin Barbu, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. According to the...

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...

Backward is Pharisaism and Saul of Tarsus, forward is the Apostle Paul and Christianity, and in the middle is Revelation, as he himself assures us; and/or the deviation from Pharisaism, incorporating Hellenism, as one might observe.

The beginning of the new school year is creating troubles for every European government. The sanitary crisis is far from being over and there is the justifiable concern that schools can turn into true coronavirus hotspots. The more resolute...

(• Interview with Radu Graţian Gheţea, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Libra Internet Bank and Honorary President of the Romanian Banking Association)