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Bitcoin has surged more than 30% since the U.S. election earlier this month, but has yet to break the psychological $100,000 mark. The world's most popular cryptocurrency hit an all-time high of around $99,617 last week, but has since started...

Protecting the environment involves enormous costs and clearly not everyone is ready to assume them. Only 41% of companies have implemented climate risk management plans, and the companies with the highest emissions are the most flagrantly...

Financial markets may be losing patience with Romania's high fiscal deficit, Daniel Dăianu, president of the Fiscal Council, warned, noting that the seven-year deficit reduction plan risks being too slow for some investors, Reuters reports....

Reporter: In EU Member States we are witnessing a debate on GMO and NGTs cultivation. Farmers would like to grow plants that give higher yields and are more resistant to climate change, frost and drought through genetic modification, while...

The same electoral program is adopted by two presidential candidates, two opponents who were once together - George Simion and Călin Georgescu both support the "Food-Water-Energy" political program (see Program Summary), which...

In 2024, two reports were published, prepared at the request of the European Commission. The first report, coordinated by Enrico Letta, is entitled "More than a Market" and refers to the transformation of the single market into a true...

Sorin Grindeanu, the Minister of Transport, declared yesterday, in a press conference held at PSD headquarters, that at the end of his mandate, i.e. by the end of this year, he will account for approximately 400 kilometers of highways and express...

Europe faces a significant shortage of military personnel and an insufficiency of defense capabilities, despite increased spending on this sector since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, according to a report prepared by the British...

Following the victory of Donald Trump in the presidential elections in the United States, political leaders in Romania emphasized in their congratulatory messages sent to the future American president the importance of continuing the strategic...

The 2024 US presidential election is defined by two diametrically opposed visions, represented by Republican candidate Donald Trump and incumbent vice president, Democrat Kamala Harris. Each proposes contrasting solutions to the challenges facing...

The preparation of the campaigns for the presidential and parliamentary elections that will take place on November 24, respectively December 1, led the Government to increase the amount of budget expenditures in the second month of autumn in...

Affected by the shortage of direct flights between Tel Aviv and New York and the increased prices of tickets issued by airlines, companies in the high-tech sector in Israel are currently negotiating with three air transport operators to launch...

The Federal Reserve will not cut interest rates this year as much as markets expect because "embedded inflation" is too high, Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, the world's largest asset manager, told a conference call yesterday in Saudi...

Achieving a sustainable economy and reaching some targets of the Green Deal have the support of the banking system in our country, which in recent years has introduced several green credit products, even if the interest rates charged on some of...

The national economy will register an economic growth between 1.2 and 1.8% at the end of 2024, much lower than the one announced by the Government, of 2.8%, based on the data provided by the National Strategy and Forecasting Commission , said...

The third quarter of 2024 was marked by a series of major challenges for Romania's economy. High summer temperatures have led to increased energy consumption, and the government has taken drastic measures to cover energy needs, including the...

The US dollar fell against most major currencies in 2024 as markets anticipated the first post-pandemic interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve.

The cost of charging an electric vehicle at a public charging station varies between 0 and 5 euros/100 km for most of Europe, with the lowest prices being charged in Iceland (2.9 euros), Portugal (3, 2 euros) and Finland (4.6 euros), according to...

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 investments required for the full implementation of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) are estimated at approximately 190 billion euros, says Giorgio Travaini, the executive director of EU-Rail, in an interview for the...

Environmental protection and resource saving are supported by more and more people. A Eurobarometer survey published by the European Commission highlights the strong support of European citizens for the European Union's energy policies....

The impact of the Federal Reserve's long-awaited interest rate cut, which will be the first cut in four years, will be felt well outside the United States, according to a Reuters article reviewing the possible influence of the central...

Companies and natural persons who pay their outstanding main debts to the state budget by August 31, 2024, will benefit from the cancellation of the ancillary debts calculated for the payment obligations, according to the emergency ordinance...

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 -...

Amending the Fiscal Code, without introducing new fees and taxes and without increasing the existing ones, amending the single salary law in the budget system in order to fulfill the reform included in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan -...

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

The current Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk area, to create a buffer zone according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, risks running out of military support at some point, as the government in Berlin has halved Germany's contribution to the...

After the American vice president Kamala Harris presented at the end of last week her economic program as a candidate for the position of the president of the USA, we wonder if what is called the Simion Plan still looks like a utopia - as...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) yesterday kept its forecast for global oil demand unchanged in 2024, but downgraded estimates for 2025, citing the impact of Chinese consumption, according to Reuters.

Reporter:: How did the construction sector perform in the first semester of 2024? Is there a greater appetite for investment in the industrial area? Has the residential market contracted or stagnated compared to the first half of 2023?...

The middle of the calendar summer constituted a real challenge for the national energy system, in view of the increase in electricity consumption due to a prolonged period of 10 consecutive hot days, when temperatures of over 40 degrees in the...

The Bank of Israel has requested that banks present a plan to redirect deposits from current accounts to term deposits, after banks stopped paying interest on these accounts, according to the Israeli press. The letter sent by the Bank of Israel...

The share of new full-electric passenger cars among registrations reached 14.6% in 2023, marking a continuation of the rapid increase in the adoption of electric vehicles in the EU, Eurostat said in a press release issued at the end of last week....

The social and political convulsions of the first three months of the current year left their mark on the entire semester, because the PSD-PNL coalition turned to the state piggy bank to calm them down. Thus, the Ciolacu government decided to...

Stuttgart 21 is the most modern railway project currently underway in Germany. Basically, through the project, the former Stuttgart Train Station building is undergoing an extensive interior modernization process and will become a shopping...

Romania's electricity consumption decreased by 8%, and natural gas consumption decreased by 21% in the last three years, which led to a negative trend in the industrial performance of our country, Senator Antal Lorant said yesterday (UDMR),...

The completion of the construction of the Răstoliţa hydropower plant, "the first one built from scratch after the Revolution", was the topic of yesterday's discussion between the representatives of the Ministry of Environment and...

The lack of fiscal predictability is an acute problem for American investors in our country, the representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce in Romania (AmCham) stated yesterday, during the press conference in which they presented the...

The central authorities in Bucharest received 1.09 billion euros from the European Union, through the Modernization Fund, for the financing of contracts for difference (CfD), through which the price of electricity will be fixed for a period of 15...