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În ciuda predictibilităţii moderate a celor mai multe riscuri globale, există şi evenimente extreme, greu de anticipat, dar cu impact devastator - cunoscute sub numele de „lebede negre” (black swans). În 2026, câteva astfel de...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) intervened again in the currency market to support the rupee, in a context marked by persistent capital outflows from portfolios, weak regional signals, and uncertainties stemming from trade relations with the...

Systemic uncertainties mark the year 2026, foreshadowing a future with multiple probabilities, in which economic, political, technological, and environmental developments are dominated by major risks.

Despite the moderate predictability of most global risks, there are also extreme events, difficult to anticipate, but with devastating impact-known as "black swans.” In 2026, a few such hypothetical scenarios deserve consideration...

The desperation with which Trump plunges into conflicts suggests that the financial and economic situation of the United States is far more serious than we had imagined.

The euro-digital currency is having a hard time taking off, and this is displeasing to Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, who pushed it to the forefront of the European agenda, according to a journalistic investigation...

Ursula von der Leyen is pushing Europe into a new debt spiral, invoking financial emergencies upon financial emergencies, which, at the end of next year, would increase the European Union's debt to the international financial and banking...

The third quarter of 2025 was dominated by the efforts of the Government led by Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan to restore macroeconomic balance through firm, often unpopular measures. After a first semester marked by a deficit of 3.68% of GDP and...

Hurricane Melissa, the most violent weather event to ever hit Jamaica, is considered by scientists to be a direct product of human-induced climate change. A new study published last week by researchers at Imperial College London shows that a...

The last few days have been marked by the impending disaster and the cyclone Barbara, which crossed the Balkans. The authorities took measures, in advance, some of the population panicked, others ignored... the recommendations, there was also a...

În România, procentul copiilor supraponderali cu vârste cuprinse între 5 şi 19 ani s-a dublat, de la 10% în 2000 la 23% în 2022, informează Agerpres.

The International Center for Settlement of Foreign Investment Disputes (ICSID), the so-called ICSID tribunal in Washington, attached to the World Bank, has in recent years become the preferred tool of fossil energy giants through which they block...

The price of gold has soared over the past two and a half years, up 34% in the past twelve months, hitting new all-time highs, most recently in April 2025 at $3,500 per ounce, as central banks and investors seek safety amid economic uncertainty...

The climate crisis is one of the greatest and most complex challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Although warning signs have been emerging for some time, the pace and scale of change have become alarming in recent years, affecting all...

In a world affected by climate change, biodiversity loss and food crises, there is one element that connects all these problems, although it often remains in the shadows: water. Without water, there is no life, no agriculture, no economy. And...

Despite the numerous alarm signals raised in recent years regarding the funding received by some non-governmental organizations from large global corporations in technology, industry or energy, the European Commission does not consider that the...

Surface temperatures in the regions surrounding the Greek capital rose by up to 10 degrees Celsius in just one year as a result of devastating forest fires in the summer of 2024, according to a study published by the National Observatory of...

Aon România anunţă, într-un comunicat remis redacţiei, lansarea studiului „2025 Global Cyber Risk Report”, realizat de grupul Aon la nivel internaţional, care subliniază impactul sever al riscurilor cibernetice asupra valorii...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI), in its current form, is becoming increasingly environmentally costly, UNESCO warns in a recent report. The high energy and water consumption of large-scale models raises serious concerns about the...

The euro's global importance will continue to grow this year as political factors fuel its appreciation against the U.S. dollar, central bankers and analysts said in an article published earlier this week by CNBC.

The US Department of Energy has issued a stark and unprecedented warning, signaling a 100-fold increase in the risk of major power outages by 2030, amid the planned retirement of more than 100 gigawatts of power generation capacity, according to...

An extreme heatwave that hit western Europe for 10 days is believed to have caused around 2,300 deaths in 12 major European cities, according to a rapid analysis by researchers at Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene and...

The codes used to secure diplomatic, military, financial and personal communications could be quickly broken by quantum computers, participants at the Kaspersky Horizons conference, which took place in Madrid from June 30 to July 2, 2025.

The S&P 500 index reached a new all-time high at the end of last week, after a spectacular recovery from the fall that began in February, triggered by Donald Trump's declarations regarding the imposition of tariffs in the United States of...

A major new study by about 60 researchers from 17 countries warns that ten key climate indicators are in the red, signaling an accelerating worsening of the global climate crisis. Published in the journal Earth System Science Data, the report...

The number of regions affected by drought globally doubled between 1900 and 2020, according to a new report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). According to the analysis, droughts have become more frequent, more...

The euro/dollar exchange rate failed to hold above 1.1450 this week, falling at one point even below 1.14, according to an analysis published by currencynews.co.uk, which highlights that the latest data on the US economy did not support...