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Romanian freelancers, a category which includes a number of economics specialists, are facing a number of difficulties in their activity and no one cares about them and their problems, lawyer Gheorghe Piperea says.

The PSD did what everybody wants. It raised wages. We all want happy Romanians. If we could, we would raise employees' wages every day, in fact, we would do so hourly.

The saying goes that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. That also applies to Laura Codruţa Kovesi, the former chief-prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Department, who has been dismissed for political reasons and in the...

• Interview with economist Lucian Isar 

Reporter: We are in a very stormy period, both on the monetary market as well as on the currency market, which began at the end of last year, when the ROBOR-tied tax on bank assets was approved, and...

Jean-Claude Juncker and the College of European Commissioner are in Bucharest since yesterday, where they are attending the festivities dedicated to the official takeover by Romania of the rotating presidency of the EU council.

The versatility of the UDMR is notorious, because we are talking about a political party which has always wanted to be in the government.

The UDMR has always negotiated its votes, with any party, whether right wing or left wing, based on three...

• The estimated GDP for 2019 exceeds 1000 billion lei, Finance minister Eugen Teodorovici has announced on Tuesday 

• Pârvan: "There are methods for increasing the GDP artificially, through the administered prices"

The thinness of the...

After many years of the army getting ignored and budget allocations that seemed more like jokes, it took the White House demanding the splitting of the military bill, for the Romanian political decision makers to accept that the army needs equipment.

An unexpected change in the opinion of Jerome Powell, the president of the Federal Reserve, would show that, ar first glance, the president of the United States has imposed his will.

Adrian Vasilescu, strategy consultant at the NBR, has caused outrage in the press and in society through his statement madea the end of last week, that Romanians affected by the introduction of the new degree of indebtedness " should get 2-3...

• Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the UK opposition: "A second referendum for Brexit is not an option for the present" 

UK prime-minister, Theresa May, rejected at the end of last week the counterproposals to her draft agreement negotiated...

Interview with Mr. Cosmin Ghiţă, interim CEO of Nuclearelectrica

• "The company never reached the number of hours of unplanned downtime scheduled for a year"

(Interview with Irina Nicoleta Scarlat, Country Manager Revolut Romania)

(Interview with General Prosecutor Augustin Lazăr)

General Prosecutor Augustin Lazăr was the center of attention around the middle of last week, when Justice minister Tudorel Toader started the procedure for the revocation of the...

• Klaus Iohannis is asking for the resignation of Tudorel Toader as minister of Justice 

• Ludovic Orban: "We are at risk of saying goodbye to Schengen, and goodbye to European funds"

On Friday, the Venice Commission passed the...

• "The prospects for the expansion of the trade relations between Romania and Russia are rather good" 

The commodities exchanges between Russia and Romania have seen a rather significant drop in 2015 and 2016, but they have increased in...

Italian finance minister, Giovanni Tria, recently said that the yield of government bonds is not justified by the fundamental aspects of the budget and it is expecting a drop in them, in order for "the negative effects on the banking system...

• American president criticized the central bank for raising the interest rates 

• Bloomberg: The richest people in the world have lost 99 billion dollars following the drops in the stock market

• Liviu Moldovan, financial analyst: "There...

Some people mistake direct democracy with "the popular democracy regime" of communism. No, it is called direct democracy, because the decision is not mediated by representatives.

• "We should more seriously concern ourselves with the durable development concept" 

The National Strategy for Sustainable Development of Romania will be completed by October 1st, according to Laszlo Borbely, State Counselor, Head of...

Globalization has also brought with it an unpleasant effect: cross-border corruption. According to the intermediate report Exporting Corruption for the year 2018, a document drawn up by the organization Transparency International, there is a...

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.

• "There have been attempts for the prefect to be made a scapegoat"  

• "The support from the government wasn't much to talk about, so if it were withdrawn, there wouldn't be much of a difference"

Bucharest's...

The particularly hot weather and the conditions of extreme draught in Europe have brought to light terrible warnings from the past.

Associated Press recently wrote that in the riverbed of the Elba in the Czech Republic have resurfaced the giant...

• Claudiu Cazacu, XTB România: "United States companies have posted results that even exceeded the analysts' expectations, which were already for 2-figure profit increases"  

• Liviu Moldovan, financial analyst: "Currently,...