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Climate-driven migration is a major concern for governments around the world. The global climate crisis is no longer a distant future, but a present reality. Every year, millions of people are forced to flee their homes due to natural disasters...

Roxana Mînzatu, our country's proposal for the position of European Commissioner, successfully passed her hearing yesterday by the members of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Internal Affairs (LIBE), Labor Force and Social Affairs (EMPL),...

The world's agri-food systems generate huge hidden costs, estimated at $12 trillion per year, according to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Modern diseases such as stroke, diabetes and...

The BRICS summit that is taking place these days in Kazan, Russia, also has on its agenda the request made by Turkey to acquire the status of a full member of that economic organization, after until now it had observer status. Turkish President...

Sărăcia este una dintre "bolile" majore ale începutului de secol XXI. Împletitura de crize accentuează prăpastia dintre bogăţia opulentă şi sărăcia cruntă. Peste un miliard de persoane din întreaga lume trăiesc în condiţii de sărăcie...

Poverty is one of the major "diseases" of the beginning of the 21st century. The interweaving of crises accentuates the gulf between opulent wealth and abject poverty. Over a billion people worldwide live in conditions of acute poverty,...

A recent World Bank report shows an alarming situation for the world's 26 poorest countries, which are home to 40% of the people most affected by poverty. These economies have reached the highest level of debt in the last 18 years and face...

• Switzerland - the most innovative country, for the 14th consecutive year 

The first month of autumn brought a series of economic and financial challenges for our country, especially in the context of a growing budget deficit, high inflation and volatility of energy prices. However, the Ciolacu government continued to...

The member states of the United Nations (UN) pledged at the end of last week to create a better future for humanity faced with the multiple challenges of wars, poverty and climate change, by adopting the so-called "Pact of the Future"....

• Russian lies 

The Save the Children organization raises the alarm by informing that, at the national level, over 15% of children have not even reached the end of the 8th grade and there are counties where the percentage exceeds 25%. The final results of the...

Organizaţia Salvaţi Copiii România anunţă cea de-a 27-a ediţie a Grădiniţelor estivale, cu un concept inovator al Şcolii mobile, care va ajunge în comunităţi izolate şi afectate de sărăcie severă. În anul şcolar 2022-2023, dintre cele 7.471 de...

The Save the Children Romania organization announces the 27th edition of the Summer Kindergartens, with an innovative concept of the Mobile School, which will reach isolated communities affected by severe poverty. In the 2022-2023 school year,...

The resignation of Cătălin Drula from the leadership of the USR after the disastrous result recorded in the elections of June 9 and the start of the internal process for the election of the new president of that political formation, revealed the...

The Ministry of Energy launched, on Friday, in public consultation, the project of Romania's Energy Strategy for the period 2025-2035, with the perspective of 2050, a document that foresees investments of 16 billion euros from European funds....

Mai mult de unul din patru copii din lume cu vârsta sub 5 ani trăieşte în "sărăcie alimentară severă", ceea ce înseamnă că peste 180 de milioane de copii riscă să sufere de consecinţe grave dacă nu au o alimentaţie nutritivă şi...

More than one in four children in the world under the age of 5 lives in "severe food poverty", which means that more than 180 million children are at risk of suffering serious consequences if they do not have a nutritious and diversified...

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu announced yesterday to his colleagues from the PSD-PNL governing coalition that he negotiated with representatives of the business environment the increase of the minimum wage from 3,300 gross lei to 3,700 lei gross,...

The continuation of investments for the implementation of the Green Deal, the acceleration of allocations to support citizens and raise the standard of living, finding common sources of financing for the development of the defense industry, but...

• Israel stuck 

A survey conducted in 38 countries by Statista Consumer Insights shows that only 21-44% of respondents believe that environmental protection is a major issue for their country, with respondents from Brazil being, for example, the most concerned...

The government is decided to increase the gross minimum wage in the economy to 3700 lei, but before that it will have a discussion with the social partners - employers and unions, said Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu at the end of the Executive...

The organizers of this year's edition of the Olympic Games are facing problems even where they least expected. Seven municipal police unions have announced they will file a strike notice in France between July 14 and August 15, during the...

The National Federation of Trade Unions in Culture and Media CulturMedia announced that its members will not participate in the European Night of Museums due to the "procrastination" of the promised measures and appealed to the National...

Citizens with the right to vote in our country are not interested in the Green Deal, climate actions and reducing emissions at the European level, according to the latest Eurobarometer published yesterday by the community public opinion polling...

The sports unionists will take to the streets under the slogan: "We demand salaries with which we can raise our children!". The National Sports and Youth Union - SNST, a member of the PUBLISIND Federation / National Trade Union Bloc -...

The European Commission and the European Parliament should approve the progressive taxation of large fortunes, according to a study by the global non-governmental organization Oxfam International, which campaigns for the reduction of social...

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....

According to the crime index for last year published by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, a non-governmental organization based in Switzerland, with a score of 4.58 our country ranks 27th out of 44 European states,...

BRD Groupe Societe Generale and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, concluded, yesterday, a landmark synthetic significant risk transfer (SRT) transaction, which will release capital with the help of...

The construction sector is one of the main contributors to the creation of the Gross Domestic Product, but it is currently facing problems generated by the bureaucracy from the central and local public authorities, lending from the banking sector...

The grievances of employees in the cultural sector are far from being resolved. The dialogue with the authorities does not have the expected effect. The representatives of the CulturMedia Union convey, in a manifesto, that on Museum Day, on May...

Despite some improvements, our country still faces the vulnerability of fiscal revenues, and large budget deficits and high inflation rates, which are all above pre-pandemic levels, make the economy potentially vulnerable to shocks, the European...

Bringing students studying abroad back to the country is a challenge for the authorities. The Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Janina Sitaru, pleaded for the return to the country, after completing their studies, of young...

Dialogue between environmental organizations and authorities is crucial for implementing the best measures to protect nature. WWF-Romania (World Wide Fund for Nature) has sent its recommendations to the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of...

Once again, Romania is facing protests from employees in the public health system. Economists have a rich experience with underperforming public systems: more money does not bring an increase in quality, especially in the absence of placing these...

The world's five richest people saw their wealth more than double from 2020 to the latter part of last year, according to a report by Oxfam, an organization that calls for reducing "corporate power," according to CNBC.

The World Bank (WB) reduced its estimate for Romania's economic growth in 2023 to 1.8%, 0.8 percentage points below the forecast released in June last year, according to the institution's latest report - "Global Economic...

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