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The Parliament established following the 2020 elections ends its four-year mandate today, a period that can be characterized as one marked by major crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the energy crisis following the war in Ukraine, political...

The creation of a Sovereign Investment Fund in Romania (SIFIR), which would be capitalized from the collection of royalties and taxes for the exploitation of mineral and energy resources, as well as from the dividends of state-owned energy...

The last month of summer was marked by a series of government decisions that continued to deepen the budget deficit, which - according to the budget execution for the first seven months published by the Ministry of Finance at the end of August -...

The nominal returns of the seven Pillar II private pension funds were around 8%, in the first seven months of this year, respectively 14-16% in the period July 2023 - July 2024, performances above those achieved in normal. They are really...

Reporter: How adequate do you think the current pension system architecture is for our country's current and future needs?

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...

France is on the boil again on July 14, after the political situation became volatile following President Emmanuel Macron's decision to dissolve the National Assembly and call early parliamentary elections for June 30 and July 7, 2024....

Reporter: Based on the legislation in force, the portfolios of mandatory private pension funds in our country are composed of approximately 65% government securities and 25% shares. Given that the investments are long-term, how do you...

Reporter: According to the European Federation of Stock Exchanges (FESE), the Bucharest Stock Exchange is the second largest in Eastern Europe, above the stock exchanges in Hungary and the Czech Republic, but the value of transactions is...

During May, the government continued to make chaotic decisions regarding budget expenditures, although the deficit after the first four months of the current year stood at 3.24% of the Gross Domestic Product, i.e. a minus of 57.29 billion lei...

The assets of mandatory private pension funds in our country will double in the next five years, so administrators will be forced to look for other investment areas outside the capital market, Radu Crăciun, the president of the Association for...

Through the National Recovery and Resilience Program (PNRR), Romania has committed to carrying out tax reform in 2025. Until the elections for the Romanian Parliament in December 2024, citizens would have the opportunity to participate in an...

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...

Less than half of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) prohibit anonymous donations for political financing, according to the data published in the report Anti-corruption and integrity -...

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...

• January 5 

Last year, the governments of Ciucă and Ciolacu failed to comply with the state budget law approved in December 2022, a normative act drawn up by the PSD-PNL governing coalition and which provided for an increase in budget expenditures, but also...

• July 3rd 

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...

The shareholders of Hidroelectrica (H2O) approved, in yesterday's meeting, the transaction by which the producer and supplier of electricity takes over the business of the Uzina Constructoare de Maşini Reşita (UCM), according to a company...

• October 7 

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...

After last summer, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu ordered Victor Ponta to be his honorary adviser in the field of international relations, another member of the former Prime Minister's family from 2012-2015 entered the good graces of the Head...

The incompetence of the public authorities left its full mark on the end of the year, the month of December being marked by two tragedies that show the fact that, despite the tragedies at Colectiv and Crevedia, despite the scandal of the Asylums...

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...

The Financial Supervision Authority is waiting for the vote tonight or tomorrow by the plenary of the Parliament which will confirm the choice of the new management team made yesterday by the members of the joint committees of the budget,...

The candidates for the Council of the Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF) will be heard, today, in the Romanian Parliament, for a five-year term at the head of the institution that supervises the insurance market, private pensions and the...

The draft state budget law drawn up by the Government and published yesterday, in transparency, on the website of the Ministry of Finance, shows us that at the end of next year the state treasury will close with a deficit of 5%, which in nominal...

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu declared yesterday that the draft budget drawn up for next year foresees a 60% increase in the funds allocated to National Education, which will thus reach 4.1% of the Gross Domestic Product.

Radu Soviani: I'll start by asking you what's your opinion about the mass privatization in Romania, especially through what we know as SIFs.

• November 1st 

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...

Judge Denisa-Angelica Stănişor and prosecutor Emilia Ion were elected, yesterday, in the positions of president and vice-president of the Superior Council of the Magistracy for next year, the mandate of the new leadership will start on January 7,...

Radu Soviani: Mr. Farmache, now, more than 30 years since the start of the mass privatization program, I ask you what were the thoughts behind initiating this program and what were the most interesting elements in its evolution over the...

The shareholders of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) will give Radu Hanga another mandate as president, in today's elections, according to sources in the market.

The draft pension law which was adopted on Tuesday by the Senate plenary and which was submitted to the Chamber of Deputies - the decision-making body regarding this normative act - is disputed by the National Trade Union Bloc (BNS) and the...

The shareholders of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) will meet, in the middle of next week, to elect the new Board of Directors for a period of four years, as well as the president of our capital market operator, a position currently held by...

Increasing pensions is a main objective of the governing coalition, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said yesterday at the Summit of Local Public Authorities in Romania, an event that took place in Bucharest.

The national economy is not ready to function with less cash, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said yesterday, at the beginning of the government meeting in which it was established that the maximum limits on daily cash payments/receipts established...

After 15 years of activity, the Pilon II private pension funds have around 8.1 million participants, 117 billion lei accumulated, of which three quarters represent the contributions transferred into the system and one quarter (over 30 billion...