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The revitalization of the national defense industry is achieved with employees who are at or past the retirement age, Constantin Bucuroiu, president of the Alliance of Trade Unions in the Defense and Aeronautics Industry, told the BURSA...

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...

The indices of the Main Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) had slight increases in July, before the sharp fall at the beginning of this month, caused by factors external to our country.

The private pension fund Metropolitan Life exceeded, at the beginning of last week, the holding threshold of 5% of the capital of the river transporter and the port operator Transport Trade Services (TTS), according to a company report published...

A commendable cultural initiative comes from Sibiu. The management of the Brukenthal National Museum has decided, for the first time, to offer free entry to locals on the first Thursday of each month to four museums within the museum complex,...

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...

Those who choose to spend their vacation in Mexico will not only enjoy the sea and the ocean, history and culture, jungle and traditions, but also the hotel resorts there, which are not classified only by stars but also by diamonds. In the...

The specialized publication "Climatic Change" recently published a study whose title states that "the degree of knowledge of the environment is inversely proportional to the anxiety related to climate change".

Reporter: Lately, several employees of ASF have resigned or been fired. I would refer to Mr. Ciprian Copariu, who oversaw the capital market for almost 20 years. What is the reason for those departures? Are they related to the oversight failures...

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...

The blaze at SIF Transilvania started two months ago, around the General Shareholder meeting of April 28th, when the faction that gathered around the former football referee Constantin Frăţilă has prepared to overturn Mihai Fercală and his...

The biggest challenge for the world right now is to find a way out of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on avoiding new epidemic waves after social distancing measures are loosened, says Andre Cappon, founding president of CBM Group of New...

March 2020 has seen several firsts, the effects of which are already being felt in the economic environment. The coronavirus epidemic has already started being felt in the first days of March, when a large number of companies decided that their...

The pension system is in danger, market analysts say, and they claim that in 2050, there will be no one to pay the public pensions. Adrian Codirlaşu, president of CFA Romania, told us: "In the pension system we have increases that, according...

The 2nd pension pillar continues to be the focus of politicians, who come out with conflicting statements on the matter. After last week, PM Mihai Tudose and deputy prime-minister Marcel have confirmed that the Government is working intensely on...

The non-banking financial institutions have been fined a total of 337,000 lei, following the audit conducted by the National Consumer Protection Agency (ANPC), between May 8th, 2017 - June 16th, 2017, according to a report of the ANPC, published...

The motion of no-confidence did not decapitate the Grindeanu cabinet, because through the mass resignations of its ministers one week ago, all that was left of the Government was precisely the head which they had nothing to separate it from,...

Yesterday, the Virgil Măgureanu, the first director of the SRI, has been officially indicted. He was the first official founder of the institution and the one who left the deepest mark on its practices. Indicted on charges on extremely serious...

The reaction of NBR counselor Cristian Bichi, who posted on the NBR website the following clarifications, is increasingly important for BURSA's readers, because the "bail-in" subject (which BURSA has been debating since 2013) has been...

Romania has two categories of vulnerable people: the young and the elderly. For years, the long term solutions provided by specialists have been ignored, opting instead for short-term fixed for the vulnerabilities of the system. Can we still...

"Fiscal obscenity!", exclaimed famous graphic artist Eugen Mihăescu, referring to the practices of Adrian Sârbu, in the year 2000, but in fact, the lack of decency has been a part of not only his business relationships with the state, but...

Suspicions concerning foreign interests are once again being brought up, following the proposal to shift a 13% stake of the Port of Constanţa from the Ministry of Transports to the Local council, an issue which sparked a huge scandal and has...

Reporter: Are you on schedule with the tasks you have taken on through your contracts (some of them being a 50% liquidity increase and the listing of five new companies, in the first year)?

Even though the issue of the aging of the population and of the strain it is putting on the state budget is no longer something new, the recent report of the European Commission (CE) concerning Romania's National Program for Reform has given...

Three worrisome incidents:

The replacement of all the ministers of Emil Boc seems to be intended as a hint that its' not only the people that will be changed, but that the style will be different as well, and the Governing program, which was yesterday made public, very...

I don"t know if there are any idealists left to believe that the attack on Libya pursues the ideals of democracy and the removal of a bloody dictator. After all dictators are created by feeding their ego.

I don"t know if there are any idealists left to believe that the attack on Libya pursues the ideals of democracy and the removal of a bloody dictator. After all dictators are created by feeding their ego.

Notified by union leaders since one week ago that a major protest against the Government would take place, on the day that the Parliament would hold the vote on the eighth motion of no-confidence, I decided to participate, for the n-th time (as...

Businesspeople that invest in football don"t seem to be too interested in the shares of the Proprietatea Fund. Its coming listing on the Bucharest Stock Exchange does not make it any more attractive to the owners of First League football...

• Samuel Calotă: "Contracts concluded after January 2nd, 2011 are considered new"  

On Sunday night, the Irish and European authorities triumphantly announced Ireland"s rescue. The headline of a Bloomberg article stated: "Ireland wins a 113 billion dollars rescue package". It is enough to look at the details of the...

Romania can only exit the recession through harsh budget constraints, says the governor of the NBR, Mugur Isărescu, who said that he didn"t agree with the statement that the IMF saved us as a country, made by his advisor Lucian Croitoru...

• Out of 5.5 million retirees, over 900,000 are retired on disability claims  

The systemic crisis which Romania has been brought to - a crisis setting in amid profound imbalances in employment and the real economy, combined with a surge in public and private debt - has reached endemic proportion and stands unprecedented in...

The Cluj branch of the Conservative Party proposes the passing of a law by which low income senior citizens would receive 1.5 liters of milk every week.

Romania will experience a difficult financial and economic moment in autumn, in the months of September-October, but there are positive signs that the economy will begin to recover starting next year, the chairman of the Social Democrat Party...

Andreea Arăboaei

• The IMF hopes to get written promises that the foreign banks won"t reduce their exposure to the Romanian market