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The law capping interest on loans granted by non-banking financial institutions (IFNs) and debt collectors has, unfortunately, big, essential differences compared to the original draft, lawyer Gheorghe Piperea, current MEP, who wrote the draft...

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....

There are certain things heavily promoted on various channels that are very harmful to people's health. Tobacco, ultra-processed foods, fossil fuels and alcohol, promoted by industry lobbies, are responsible for 2.7 million deaths a year in...

Social convulsions have been a constant in the first three months of the current year, with a peak in January, when almost half of the country's major cities were blocked by farmers' and transporters' protests, which lasted for three...

Political decision-makers in Bucharest continued in the last month of the first quarter of the current year to adopt decisions regarding the extension of some price capping measures and to dilute the provisions of Law 296/2023 and GEO 115/2023...

Traditionally, the second month of the year should be marked by the beginning of the first parliamentary session and less by the visibility of the work carried out by the government, but the electoral year 2024 seems out of the ordinary, in view...

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...

The maximum deadline regarding the fulfillment of the owners' obligation to install heat distributors in residential buildings and apartments has been extended until December 31, 2024, following a bill approved yesterday by the Chamber of...

A Canadian recently stopped by the bank where he took out a 25-year mortgage to check his repayment status, given that interest rates have been rising rapidly lately, amid the increase in the monetary policy rate. To his surprise, next to the...

• EDUCATION-ASSET CLASS (a class for Environmental, Social and Governance ["E.S.G."] investors) 

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 quarantine has deepened the inequalities on the labor market and has significantly sped up the pace at which the public and private sectors need to act to ensure that millions of people keep their jobs on a market that is changing due to...

• For the first time in the last years, job creation isn't keeping up with their disappearance 

Hidroelectrica has developed its supply component year after year, and in the coming years, the company's intention is to become an active player on the supplier market, after it doubled the quantity of energy supplied to end consumers in...

The lack of legislative predictability and instability have caused investors not to make investment decisions concerning the extraction of natural gas in the Black Sea, says Virgil Popescu, vice-president of the Commission for Industries and...

The offshore law will once again reach the Commission, in one or two weeks, according to Mr. Virgil Popescu, the vice-president of the Commission for Industries and Services, the Chamber of Deputies.

PNL senator Daniel Cătălin Zamfir does not disappoint. His draft law concerning the capping of interest rates was the first that appeared on the agenda yesterday, in the common meeting of the specialized commissions and despite the controversies...

The financial banking system seems to be the focus of most of the investigation entities. After being audited by the National Tax Administration Agency (ANAF) and by the National Consumer Protection Authority (ANPC), some of the banks which...

The amendment of the Energy Strategy in one month is a bad joke, says Jack Cutişteanu, CEO of Petprod, reacting to the announcement made by the representatives of the Ministry of Energy, according to which the Romanian authorities intend to...

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 European Commission reacted on Tuesday, after the deputies of the Commission for Industries and Services have passed a series of amendments to the Natural Gas Law, according to which the gas producers will be required to fully trade their...

After voting in favor of the introduction, in the Law of Giving in payment, of a cap of 150,000 Euros for the amount of the loan at the time of its granting, social-democrats seem to be having second thoughts on that aspect.

Romania's transition to the single European market will not lead to a drop in prices, in the coming period, as the European Union hopes, but instead to the price of energy almost doubling, the specialists of the National Energy Regulation...

• The financial industry - the area which saw the highest volume of investments last year 

The executive is betting on an economic growth of 1.5% this year, amid the continuation of the upward trend of exports, the gradual increase of domestic demand and the increased absorption rate of European funds. In the Letter of Intent published...