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There are certain things heavily promoted on various channels that are very harmful to people's health. Tobacco, ultra-processed foods, fossil fuels and alcohol, promoted by industry lobbies, are responsible for 2.7 million deaths a year in...

A recent report by property consultancy Knight Frank shows the minimum net worth a person would need to own in 2023 to be considered part of the 1% - the richest people in a country - and the results differ significantly , according to Statista....

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...

The new school year brought us new fees and taxes in the first month of autumn, following the fiscal changes assumed in the Government Parliament to reduce the budget deficit. Threatened by the European Commission with the cut of allocations from...

Ukrainian SMEs need access to funds and technology, according to UkraineInvest, which shows that in the past year and a half since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, the government in Kiev has been pushing to stimulate the economy with the...

JTI Romania launched, yesterday, Ploom X - its first product with low risk potential (based on tobacco heating, not burning). It will be available, for now, in a number of stores in Bucharest, as well as online.

Fiscal changes regarding micro-enterprises must be implemented only from January 1, 2024, said yesterday, Florin Jianu, the president of the National Council of Small and Medium-sized Private Enterprises in Romania, at the opening of the CNIPMMR...

Companies that exceed a turnover of 50 million euros and banks will pay a tax of 1% on turnover provides for the draft law on some fiscal budgetary measures to ensure the financial sustainability of Romania in the long term posted, yesterday, in...

The growth of the United States economy fueled a new appreciation of the US dollar, a rally that will be tested this month by the economic data to be published and the decisions of the Federal Reserve that will be taken at the meeting on...

A wave of Western companies left Russia immediately after the invasion of Ukraine by the Moscow-led military, and those that have not yet are scrambling to leave because of the financial and reputational damage they are suffering. But as time...

The fiscal changes that the Government would like to approve in the next period to reduce the state deficit are not consistent with the data on the 5% decrease in consumption - a decrease that started as early as May - and with the expectations...

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

Twitter has permanently shut down the Donald Trump's account. For some, that may seem like good news. The man has done much lately. Some of his actions may even land him in court. But my problem, right now, is not what he's done.

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

The PSD did what everybody wants. It raised wages. We all want happy Romanians. If we could, we would raise employees' wages every day, in fact, we would do so hourly. There is no moral limit on that. The limitations on that are economic. The...

Hundreds of millions of Euros have gone from our banks to tax havens, Minister of Public Finance Ionuţ Mişa states, in an interview with a financial newspaper. The official thus confirms what BURSA has reported as early back as the beginning of...

Twenty seven banks haven't paid any profit tax in the last 6 years, which has shaken Minister of Public Finances Ionuţ Mişa, as well as some MPs, bankers and even the Governor of the National Bank of Romania (NBR) Mugur Isărescu.

Public Finance Minister Ionuţ Mişa says that almost three quarters of banks operating in Romania haven't paid profit tax in the last few years. With that statement, the head of the Finance Ministry confirms what BURSA reported five months...

Most likely this week, the government is set to approve the draft law which, according to the European directive in the sector, provides the exchange of fiscal information between countries, in order to allow a thorough control of revenues and...

After neglecting its own interest for years and despite the warnings of the Court of Auditors, the authorities of the state have accepted the postponement of the share capital increase, with the plots of land contributed by "OMV Petrom",...

The public agenda in Romania is dominated by the SIPA scandal, and, more recently, by the activity of the Parliamentary Investigation Commission concerning the presidential elections of 2009. There is no more room for anything else and much less...

It's been already five years since Victor Ponta and the PSD government should have raised the state's stake in the biggest Romanian company, OMV Petrom, Florin Cîţu, the vice-president of the Budget an Finance Commission of the Senate...

Romanian banks only pay taxes if they want to, as they have a very complicated profit reporting system, according to official, very reliable sources.

Employees earning more than five monthly gross wages will be required to pay more to healthcare and pension contributions, starting with April, after the government decided, on Friday, through an emergency ordinance to eliminate the cap on these...

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...

Almost one billion Euros was removed from Romania in the last five years, and all that money could have been used to finance many projects, the General Manager of the Major Taxpayers Department of the National Tax Administration (ANAF), Ionuţ...

The granting of state aids to companies with foreign shareholders is a controversial subject, as Romanian businesspeople claim that while the state finances the multinationals, it doesn't support domestic entrepreneurs. It is well known that...

Those who want to develop businesses in South-Eastern Europe should do that in Bucharest, says Doru Lionăchescu the president of Capital Partners, a consulting company which was acquired by BT Securities, with the stated goal of creating the most...

Almost half of the ministers proposed yesterday by designated prime-minister Dacian Cioloş for the new government have either worked in European institutions, or in multinationals, which would not be a bad thing, if they haven't forgotten...

Reporter: How do we resume lending in Romania?

Genesis Development, owner of office parks Novo Park and West Gate, is currently focusing on improving the services and conditions provided to its tenants, the managing director of the company, Rene Rohan, said.

The worsening of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict could create serious problems for Romania and the Eurozone, said the specialists present at the "Romania Trade & Export Finance Conference", which was held yesterday for the first time...

Every politician has a skeleton in their closet.

Editor: For a few years now, Hungary has been undergoing a process of restructuring as a country. The Prime Minister Viktor Orban made decisions as a country that have shocked the European authorities (imposing taxes on companies, nationalizing...

• Băsescu in 2005: "The contract with the EADS is useless and corrupt" 

The Governor of the Central Bank of Romania Mugur Isărescu has the following explanation on the consequences of the passing of the "bail-in" legislation in the European Union:

I call it a "pretext", I don't use expressions such as "supposedly", or "allegedly".

The natural gas exchanges managed by the OPCOM (the operator of the energy exchange) and the Romanian Commodities Exchange (BRM), will become functional starting in August, said Niculae Havrileţ, the president of the ANRE (the regulator of the...

Reporter: What is your opinion on the steps recently taken by Cyprus and what effects will they have on the Romanian banking market?

• Interview with Radu Baron, general manager, RBA Records