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The life of many children is not a fairy tale, on the contrary. Material problems greatly affect their development. In Romania in 2024, 48% of children in rural areas (approximately 864,000 children) live in families where money barely reaches...

Viewed with skepticism upon its appearance on the public stage, Artificial Intelligence has managed to seduce people and companies in a very short time. Over half of executives (51%) intend to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the short and...

The Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, Dorin Recean, yesterday asked the Parliament in Chisinau to declare a state of emergency in the energy sector for a period of 60 days. The decision comes against the background of the risk of ceasing...

About half of the world's service exports are now conducted on digital platforms.

The martial law, decreed two days ago by Yoon Suk Yeol, the President of South Korea, as a necessary measure in light of the nuclear threats coming from the political regime in Pyongyang, which allegedly had supporters in Seoul, has proven,...

Romanian consumers are increasingly looking for a richer, more personalized and innovative online shopping experience when buying fashion items, shoes and accessories, according to a study commissioned by German retail company Zalando. The study,...

Almost two-thirds (60%) of employees want to undergo professional retraining in the next year, the main reasons for which they want a career change being a better salary, professional development prospects and the transition to remote or hybrid...

Good examples are not always followed, which is precisely why it is necessary to popularize them. The President of the Romanian Academy, Ioan-Aurel Pop, highlighted the importance of creating the Royal Domains, true "model centers for...

Cleanliness is very important, including in space. The European Space Agency (ESA) is in talks with SpaceX about the company joining an international charter aimed at reducing space debris in Earth's orbit, according to ESA Director Josef...

More than half of global electricity will come from low-carbon sources by the end of this decade, according to a report published by the International Energy Agency (IEA). While this development marks major progress towards decarbonisation, the...

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...

Brazilian digital bank PicPay will start hiring financial companies to carry out an initial public offering (IPO) in New York next year, according to sources cited by Reuters. This will be the second time that PicPay, a bank owned by the J&F...

Monaco, Italy, Switzerland or Dubai are just a few destinations that are trying to lure the very rich from Great Britain, where changes to the tax regime are being prepared, writes CNBC.

Two out of three entrepreneurs believe that selling their business entirely is their main exit option, followed by partial sale to a private investor (42%), transition to family or management (33%) and listing on the stock exchange (12%),...

In a year when more than four billion people are eligible to vote in global elections, geopolitical concerns have emerged as a top concern for central banks and sovereign wealth funds, according to a report by asset management company Invesco....

Demand for critical minerals such as copper, cobalt, lithium and nickel has been increasing in recent years, with these raw materials being used in a range of new technologies, from electric cars to wind turbines, which are becoming increasingly...

Hungarians from the counties of Covasna and Harghita must continue the fight for the autonomy of the Szeklerland, argued the participants at the Băile Tuşnad Summer University, before Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu asked his counterpart Viktor...

Almost half of the world's population lives in countries that have organized or will organize presidential or legislative elections in 2024, which requires a closer look at how democracy is perceived to function in those countries.

Given that Europe has only 9% of the necessary raw materials, sustainability is an essential condition for the construction sector, argue the specialists of the Strabag company who work in the Zublin Innovation Center in Stuttgart, Germany and...

The American chip manufacturer Nvidia became, on June 18, the most valuable company in the world, with a market capitalization of more than 3.3 trillion dollars, overtaking the software company Microsoft, in the context in which investors pay...

Europe dominates the world ranking of competitiveness for the current year, with six economies from the region being in the top ten positions, three of which are even in the top five places (Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland), according to the...

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...

Rare fossils of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex have been excavated in the swamplands of North Dakota - a discovery worthy of attention for the scientific knowledge it could provide about the life and history of this famous dinosaur species and for...

Glissando Garden Center, a company specialized in the trade of flowers, plants, gardening articles and plant protection products, is listed today on the AeRO Market, according to an announcement by the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB).

The large IT&C companies in the United States of America have laid off tens of thousands of employees in the last 18 months, and the experience of previous crises shows that movements in the global market are felt in Romania with a difference...

Cleanliness in the workplace is very important. For climbers this goal is more difficult to achieve, the special working conditions make most activities difficult. The Nepalese army has begun a campaign to collect tons of garbage and at least...

Subscriptions in the Fidelis government bond offering exceeded the 200 million lei threshold, two days after the start of the market operation, according to our calculations based on data from a brokerage house's platform.

The concern for tomorrow weighs heavily on most inhabitants of this planet. At least half of the adults in several economically strong countries state that they are stressed due to their personal finances, citing inflation as one of the main...

Swiss agrochemicals and seeds giant Syngenta withdrew its request for a multibillion-dollar listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Friday amid a period of weakness in China's stock market, Reuters reports.

The wealth of the richest 1% of Americans reached a record $44.6 trillion at the end of the fourth quarter of last year, thanks to the growth of the stock market, according to the latest data published by the Federal Reserve, writes CNBC.

The directions of major economic powers in terms of energy production keep changing due to several factors. In the US as well as in allied countries, the owners of uranium mines left in conservation have resumed operations to take advantage of...

The price index of agricultural raw materials measured by the World Bank (WB) increased marginally in January 2024 (compared to December 2023), after falling by 1% in the fourth quarter of last year, the evolution of the first month of the...

Romanian companies benefited from state aid paid during 2023 in a total amount of about 29.5 billion lei, about 2% of the annual Gross Domestic Product, a percentage that is part of the European trend, according to a press release of the...

Cyber security is a very mentally demanding activity. Almost two-thirds (65%) of a company's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) have considered leaving their job due to workplace pressure, and about a quarter (24%) of they admitted...

Two years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia still faces an unprecedented number of economic sanctions, has been shut out of major global financial services and has had around 260 billion euros of central bank assets frozen.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warns that the Russian economy continues to face significant obstacles, even if the institution has changed its estimates for the growth of the country's economy in a positive way, informs CNBC.

The global economic outlook remains tempered and is surrounded by uncertainties, according to the Chief Economists Outlook report, published yesterday at the beginning of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. It notes that the global economy...

While most investors on Wall Street expect the US economy to have a soft landing, renowned economist David Rosenberg is warning of a possible recession this year, according to Business Insider.

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...

Climate change threatens all species living on planet Earth, some less, some more. The effects of climate change increasingly endanger whales and dolphins, according to a report published to coincide with the 28th UN Climate Change Conference. In...