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The Ministry of Finance yesterday made the legislative package on fiscal-budgetary measures aimed at reducing the current budget deficit transparent, a package that provides for doubling the bank turnover tax, increasing VAT, increasing excise...

Economic expert, university professor Dr. Mircea Coşea, told us that the package of fiscal measures presented yesterday by Finance Minister Alexandru Nazare is toxic for the country's economy.

The Supreme Council for National Defense (CSAT), led for the first time by President Nicuşor Dan, met yesterday at the Cotroceni Palace, in a meeting that lasted over three and a half hours. The meeting also marks the first participation of the...

US President Donald Trump sees no need to extend tariff truce beyond July 9, preferring to send a letter directly to trading partners setting out the tariffs they will have to pay, according to international media.

• May 2 

The end of the calendar spring, the month of May, represented a turning point both in the political evolution and in the shaping of Romania's economic and financial trajectory, marking major transitions, institutional volatility, but also...

Education Minister Daniel David, at the beginning of his second term, announces a series of profound reforms, motivated by the economic crisis and the urgent need to streamline the system. With an honest and emphatic tone, David states that he is...

The government led by Ilie Bolojan, made up of the pro-European coalition formed by PSD, PNL, USR, UDMR and the National Minorities Group, passed the Parliament vote yesterday, with 301 votes in favor out of the 310 votes cast and 9 votes...

The conflict between Israel and Iran seems far from the moment of de-escalation, if we take into account the message sent yesterday by Israel Katz, the Defense Minister from Tel Aviv to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. According to the Jerusalem Post and...

Negotiations at the Cotroceni Palace on the appointment of a future prime minister and the adoption of a new fiscal package have become bogged down in a complex political deadlock, marked by tensions between pro-European parties and increasing...

Our country is facing an acute crisis of credibility, reflected in the low country rating and the high costs of financing loans, the major problems being the excessive budget deficit and the lack of credible fiscal measures, according to the...

The Damascus Stock Exchange (DSE) reopened on June 2 after a six-month suspension, thecradle.co reports, noting that Syrian officials, including Finance Minister Mohammad Yasar Barnea, attended the reopening ceremony. The move is part of what the...

Romanian President Nicuşor Dan said he estimates a period of approximately two weeks for the formation of the new Government, emphasizing the importance of clarifying the differences between the parties in the coalition before establishing a...

AUR President George Simion met with the Romanian community in Madrid, giving the impression that he has restarted the election campaign. On this occasion, he also launched an attack on President Nicuşor Dan and spoke about the "claiming"...

Defense companies play a key role in shaping global security, supplying everything from fighter jets and missiles to advanced cyber systems, and in 2025, the valuations of major defense contractors rose to record highs amid ongoing armed...

By the decision of 29 May 2025 establishing that the declarations of assets and interests of dignitaries and civil servants should no longer be published on the website of the National Integrity Agency and of the institution to which the...

• April 1 

The Ministry of Energy continued in April to finance projects related to the creation of new production capacities from renewable sources and energy efficiency for public and private buildings. In the first days of the month, Sebastian Burduja,...

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin's recent proposal to eliminate cash entirely to combat drug trafficking has sparked a lot of backlash and controversy, according to BFMTV. "A lot of everyday fraud and crime, even criminal...

The activity of president-elect Nicuşor Dan was intense and focused in the first days after the May 18 elections and addressed essential issues for the country's economic and financial future, with an emphasis on reducing the budget deficit,...

The Administration of the Environmental Fund (AFM) has recently registered several judicial failures, after magistrates invalidated regulations considered incompatible with European legislation, regulations with an impact on the implementation of...

• January 1 

Romania's entry with land borders into the Schengen area, one of the most important diplomatic achievements of the beginning of the year, was quickly overshadowed by a series of events that strained the country's political, social and...

The first quarter of 2025 ended with a March full of strategic decisions, with a mix of social support, economic investments, programs for industry and entrepreneurship, but also budgetary prudence measures. The decisions taken by the Government...

• March 3 

Officials within the Financial Supervisory Authority face a high risk when they find certain irregularities in the activity of that public institution. Being a whistleblower regarding the ASF represents the most difficult position an official can...

At a time when a new technological revolution is taking place at a global level, profoundly rewriting the rules of the economic game, and when supply chains are being reconfigured amid aggressive protectionist trade measures introduced by the US,...

Representatives of ING Groe NV, the largest banking group in the Netherlands, have met in recent weeks with those of Italy's Banca Popolare di Sondrio, amid plans to expand its presence in Europe through takeovers, sources quoted by Reuters...

Eleven candidates will be on the ballots on May 4, in the first round of the presidential elections, after the Constitutional Court ruled on all the appeals received and after Anamaria Gavrilă, the president of the Young People's Party,...

Former Prime Minister Theodor Stolojan claims that the strategy presented by the European Commission is a step in the right direction and that the starting point was Marios Draghi's report on competitiveness and Enrico Letta's report on...

The Russian Finance Ministry considers it appropriate to discuss the possibility of large-scale privatizations again, the relevant minister, Anton Siluanov, said yesterday at a meeting of the Board of Directors of Rosimushchestvo, the federal...

The "Counseling Compass for Conspiracy Thinking" program, recently launched by Nancy Faeser, Germany's Interior Minister, is nothing more than a plan to re-educate the population or reinstate the STASI - the former political police of...

The central bank of Turkey cut its key interest rate by 250 basis points yesterday, amid slowing inflation, hispanatolia.com reports. This was the third consecutive monthly cut in the key interest rate.

Turkey's economy grew 3% in the fourth quarter of 2024 at an annual rate and 3.2% for the whole of last year, exceeding estimates despite high interest rates in the country, according to data announced on Friday by the National Institute of...

The disappearance of the Dacian treasure, following a burglary on the last day it was still on display at the Drents Museum in the Netherlands, represents the main event of the first month of 2025, despite the Government's attempts to keep...

Companies in our country, private or state-owned, must be prepared to participate in the reconstruction process of Ukraine, said yesterday the Minister of Finance, Tanczos Barna, on the occasion of the event that marked the listing on the...

The parliamentary elections in Germany, which will take place on Sunday, February 23, are of paramount importance not only for the future of the respective state, but also for that of the European Union and, implicitly, Romania, because the...

The National Bank of Romania revised the inflation forecast for the last quarter of the year to 3.8%, from 3.5% as previously estimated, but the general downward trend in inflation remains, with the Consumer Price Index set to reach 3.1% in the...

Anglo-Dutch consumer goods maker Unilever Plc is separating its ice cream division, choosing the Amsterdam stock exchange for its primary listing, a blow to British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves, who is pushing to attract IPOs to London,...

The year 2024 was marked by economic-financial and socio-political convulsions, which accentuated Romania's vulnerabilities in the face of domestic and international challenges. From the alarming budget deficit to the uncontrolled increase in...