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George Simion, the president of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians and candidate of this party in the presidential elections of November 24, offers houses to all the people. Simion's offer? 35,000 euros for a two-room apartment of 50-52...

The budget deficit continued its decline in the second financial quarter as well, its growth being a little smoother compared to the first three months of 2024. Thus, if at the end of March the budget deficit recorded for the first quarter stood...

The upward trend of the main indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), which started in the second half of last year, continued in June, during which our market was under the specter of dividends granted by its main companies.

Tony Murphy, president of the European Court of Auditors (ECA - European Court of Accounts), states that the deadline - December 31, 2026 - for the implementation of the NRDPs represents a factor that "contributes even more to the risk"...

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...

Radu Soviani: How do you think the mass privatization program has evolved, from the beginning and announcements to what we have 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 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...

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

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 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...

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,...

At the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, the American strategist of Romanian origin Edward Nicolae Luttwak wrote on his Twitter account that "Putin is finished", because "by invading with a much too small army...

"The Sermon on the Mount" is the most studied text in the New Testament, considered by Christian exegesis to be essential to Christianity.

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...

Romania has an extraordinary energy potential in the Black Sea, whether it's wind energy, or natural gas, potential that has so far been very little exploited. Specialists that met on April 7, 2021 in a debate in the Parliament's Palace,...

The Romanian banking sector is among the best capitalized banking systems in Europe, Bogdan Neacşu, General Manager, and President of the CEC Bank's steering committee, told us in an interview. According to him, there is liquidity on the...

An increase in the volume of non-performing loans is one of this year's risks for the banking system, Gabriela Folcuţ, Executive Director of the Romanian Banking Association (ARB) told us. "The Balance of Non-Governmental credit evolved...

• The European Commission has decided that coal needs to be replaced with renewable sources of energy by 2050 

In 2020, in Romania, the pandemic triggered by Covid19 highlighted the vulnerabilities of the public (state) health system both at the level of medical units and at the national level. I am thinking of the precarious medical infrastructure, not...

Romania doesn't meet any of the four criteria for joining the Eurozone and switching to the Euro, the European Commission said, in its convergence report published yesterday.

• (Interview with Daniela Iliescu, CEO of Patria Bank) 

• (Interview with lawyer Gheorghe Piperea, receiver of RADET) 

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...

Reporter: What is the most developed financial market in the world and what are its distinctive features?

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...

Reporter: How would you describe the banking market, at the present time?

The dystopia of 2169 seems to be 151 years away from us, if we were to watch the American sci-fi movie "In Time", in which New Zealand screenwriter, director and producer New Zealand Andrew M. Niccol has imagined a world in which money...

The reference price for natural gas extracted from Romania, in order to establish the royalties, will be calculated based on the trading prices of the CEGH Viena hub, the National Agency for Mineral Resources announced on Friday, which issued the...

The Courts have decided that some contracts concluded by the telephony companies contain abusive clauses. The Court rulings were rendered last year, as well as in 2016, but the argumentations have been formulated relatively recently.

Whereas in the last few years there has been a lot of talk about clauses that are considered abusive, mostly in the case of loan agreements concluded between banks and debtors, and there are a number of lawsuits in court on that matter, there are...

I for one, do not want to give Greece 1.5 billion Euros, as apparently the European Commission has decided yesterday to ask the member states of the European Union which are not members of the Eurozone to do yesterday, (a total guarantee of 13...

Reporter: Banks are faced with waves of complaints from customers. What is the current status of the lawsuits that BCR is involved in?

Reporter: In the report about Romania, recently published, the International Monetary Fund states: "The legal risks remain a major problem for the banking system. A wave of recent lawsuits filed based on the Civil Code of Law passed in...

Former president Traian Băsescu speaking on TVR: "A presidential candidate has to be open like a book, a man about whom everything is known. When he was asked for the first time how he made the money for his six homes he said that he earned...

The so-called "public debate" of the new Fiscal Code with the representatives of the academic and business sector, initiated by the Ministry of Public Finance, has confused even the employees of the Ministry.

Reporter: What do you view Romania like, from a political and economic point of view, when you come back?