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The long-term upward trend of the indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) entered a corrective phase in August, primarily due to the contagion with foreign markets that suffered a severe fall at the beginning of the month. The BET index, of...

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu does not have a plan, not even one copied from the Simion Plan or inspired by the Kamala Harris Plan, for the development of our country in the coming years, but only now is he trying to bury it by appealing to...

Iran has advantages in terms of human resources and ground equipment, but in the event of an armed conflict, Israel compensates with technological superiority, especially in aviation and air defense, as indicated by data from Global Firepower,...

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...

Romanian-French trade relations are at a high level as long as France ranks third in the dynamics of Romania's economic relations with other countries, being also the third foreign investor in our country, but also in the top 10 - 9th place...

The first semester of 2024 ended with real estate transactions of 419 million euros in Romania, more than twice as much as in the same period last year (when the total value of transactions in the first six months was 167 million euros), and the...

Europe was hit, especially in the central part, by a series of violent storms and torrential rains. They fell on Switzerland, France, Germany and Italy and resulted in at least 7 deaths, according to the first balance published by the local...

The financial performance last year looks very good for the Kuhn Romania company, which recorded a turnover in 2023 of 96.1 million euros, i.e. a 75% increase compared to 2022, the year in which the company was established by taking over in...

The democratic exercise of voting seems to be taking root also among Romanian citizens, if we take into account the fact that, in yesterday's combined European parliamentary and local elections, a better participation percentage was recorded...

The European People's Party (EPP) looks set to win the European Parliament elections, with 182 MEPs, to be seconded by the European Social Democrats (S&D) with 136 seats, according to the latest Europe Elect poll for Euractiv ahead of the...

The need for a real partnership between political decision-makers and civil society, between governments, parliaments and citizens, was the main topic of debate at the 12th edition of the Global Forum of Modern Direct Democracy, an event that...

Following the crises that followed from 2019 until now and the over-indebtedness of companies, individuals, but also of states, it is vital that the mechanisms to prevent insolvency or bankruptcy work correctly and an interpretation agreed by all...

The capital market in Romania can have an important role for the reconstruction of Ukraine and the development of the Republic of Moldova, argued the participants at the 10th edition of the CFA CEE Investment Conference, an event that this year...

A few months ago, I visited Romania, a country that, in tourist guides, is characterized as offering natural beauties that rival those of many countries in the world, and is also admired by the royal family of England, whose first voyage after...

The request of the shareholder Blue Capital, which owns 8.63% of Lion Capital (formerly SIF Banat-Crişana), that the alternative investment fund distribute dividends and make buybacks for the benefit of shareholders, provoked the reaction of the...

Reporter: What are your objectives in the current term of office as vice president of the Financial Supervisory Authority, responsible for the capital market?

The stability shown by the leu in relation to the euro starting from the second part of 2023 will very likely continue this year as well, given that the foreign exchange reserves of the National Bank of Romania (BNR) are at historical highs, we...

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...

The Ministry of Economy will ask the Ministry of European Projects and Investments to notify the European Commission so that the fourth edition of the Start-Up Nation program is financed from European funds, announced Radu Ştefan Oprea, the...

The European Union will never allow itself to be blackmailed by anyone, said the European deputy Siegfried Muresan, referring to the negative vote given by Hungary in the European Council in December regarding the review of the multiannual...

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...

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.

Globalization - the flow of goods, services, people and capital across borders - has stimulated global growth and facilitated the rise of many emerging markets in recent decades, according to a Euromonitor International analysis, which however...

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 capping of the commercial addition to certain foods will not work because of the position of hypermarkets vis-à-vis producers, said Emil-Florian Dumitru, the vice-president of the Committee for Agriculture in the Chamber of Deputies,...

Eastern European countries have a competitiveness problem amid successive wage increases in recent years, and the foreign direct investment they benefit from could suffer, according to a recent study carried out by the IESEG School of Management,...

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...

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

Nutrition experts have long been trying to identify the causes of obesity. The mission is challenging, despite appearances. There is much talk about the excessive intake of calories from certain foods, such as carbohydrates, fats, and the role of...

Life for bees is far from easy in the current climate. The University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USAMV) in Cluj-Napoca is a partner in a project with funding of 6.3 million euros for the adaptation of advanced apicultural...

The judicial system in our country has become, within a few years, a pyramid-type structure, which can be controlled by those at the top, i.e. by a handful of judges and prosecutors, in whose hands lies the career of every magistrate in Romania,...

The balance of power in the global economy will change dramatically in the coming decades, Goldman Sachs predicts, according to an article published last week by Visual Capitalist.

This is the penultimate article in the series relating to the COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

The representatives of the banking sector claim that the system has a particularly good capitalization and a good liquidity, and that at the end of 2020 the banking system was stable, with a solvency of more than 25% and much improved liquidity....

• Republicans: "The stimulus plan passed by the American congressmen, too expensive and too badly targeted" 

Christine Lagarde, the president of the ECB, talked a lot, but essentially said nothing, in the virtual conference organized by the ECB, which reaplced the Annual Sintra Forum.

Over the last few years, as senior negotiator of the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran, I have been in contact with various parties from countries and from international organizations, and the fundamental and essential question of...

As the cap on holdings by individual investors was being raised, projects and strategies to go around it have been were conceived, as Bîlteanu and Lakis did by having SIF Banat Crişana take over the manager of SIF Muntenia.

The economic turnaround plan proposed by the Orban government hasn't thrilled the experts, because according to its contents, it doesn't seem meant to quickly resolve the dramatic situation which tens of thousands of microenterprises that...

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.