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The global economy we knew in the first two decades of the 21st century - an open market where capital moved freely, technology spread rapidly, and prices and interest rates tended to converge - no longer exists. In its place has emerged a world...

Romania is no longer joining a monetary union that promised cheap and unified capital, but rather a structure where the cost of financing is immediately indexed to its own lack of fiscal discipline and institutional weakness.

It does not say so directly, it does not proclaim it, and it does not assume it politically, but it acknowledges it in the careful language of the Report on financial stability risks generated by geoeconomic fragmentation, published on January 1,...

The second semester of last year marked our country's entry into a fiscal-budgetary consolidation phase forced by reality, after a first semester that pushed the deficit to 3.68% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and amplified the risk of a...

• Structural decline in the degree of globalization 

The last quarter of 2025 was dominated by the effort of the Government led by Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan to keep Romania on the deficit path negotiated with Brussels and to avoid slippages that could have pushed public finances into a systemic...

The economic and financial situation of our country has recognized a revival during the last month of autumn, even if the Government continued to allocate amounts for various investments financed from the national budget and from European funds....

Scientists from St. Petersburg State University (SPbU) have developed an innovative, lightweight, buoyant and reusable polymer film that can effectively absorb oil products from the surface of contaminated waters, according to Xinhua. The new...

The Pro Patrimonio Foundation has launched a petition calling on the Romanian Government to abandon its intention to abolish or merge the National Institute of Heritage (INP), a key institution in the protection of historical monuments. The...

Reporter: There are 17 smart specialization parks in the North-West region. What are they, how do they work in reality and how many of the 17 parks are functional or have an administrator at the moment?

The tripling of funding on the principle that for every euro received from the European Union budget, the state comes with one euro and the private sector with another euro, could ensure a total investment budget of almost 200 billion euros for...

September brought to the forefront of the political scene one of the toughest confrontations between the Government, the opposition and society in recent years. The cabinet led by Ilie Bolojan entered at full speed into a succession of decisions...

Last night, in an extraordinary session, the government adopted in a hurry the draft budget rectification for 2025, a document with a major impact on the national economy and social life. Why do we say that the rectification was approved very...

The end of the summer calendar recorded a tense economic and political reality in our country, in which the governing coalition was forced to combine financial stability measures with attempts to restore confidence in the population and external...

The increase in the general VAT rate from 19% to 21%, the increase in reduced VAT rates, the increase in excise duties, the increase and introduction of new taxes and fees approved by the first package of fiscal measures assumed by the Bologna...

The middle of the calendar summer represented a turning point for our country, marked by a tense economic, financial and political climate, which led to the first firm decisions of the Bolojan Government towards stabilizing public finances and...

The European Parliament categorically opposes the dilution of the Cohesion Policy (CP) and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) into a common fund, as the European Commission would like, said yesterday MEP Siegfried Mureşan, chief negotiator for...

We are faced with a series of decisions presented by Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan as necessary, but without the Executive having offered the general public a clear analysis of their economic effects. Beyond the image arguments, what is missing is...

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...

Maintaining the flat tax rate, reducing tax evasion, simplifying and debureaucratizing administrative processes, reducing state spending and accelerating the absorption of European funds are the requirements of the business environment in our...

Member States' contributions to the European Union budget could increase moderately between 2028 and 2034 given the need for more joint investments at European level for defense and security, said MEP Siegfried Mureşan, rapporteur on the...

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...

Ten years of presidency ended with a resignation, with Klaus Iohannis thus ending his two terms not in glory, but in disgrace. On February 10, the former president announced his resignation in order to avoid a political crisis generated by the...

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...

The construction materials producer Prefab Bucharest (PREH) reported preliminary operating income of 96.2 million lei, 20.2% below those in 2023, while operating profit increased by 6.6%, to almost 3.5 million lei, according to the issuer's...

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...

The balance sheet of his own government is a positive one, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu claimed yesterday, at the end of the government meeting, in a press statement in which he presented the main achievements of his mandate. Unfortunately, the...

In 2024, two reports were published, prepared at the request of the European Commission. The first report, coordinated by Enrico Letta, is entitled "More than a Market" and refers to the transformation of the single market into a true...

Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, wants to centralize the allocation of funds from the EU budget in the period 2028-2034, which would lead to the cancellation of the financing of cohesion policy projects, which would...

Ocean warming, considered a crucial indicator of climate change, has accelerated significantly since 2005, a new report from Europe's Copernicus Observatory shows. More than a fifth of the world's ocean surface has been affected by...

Money for the green transition allocated through the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (RMR) has been misappropriated by EU member states because some measures, "green" on paper, are not so "green" in reality, while some projects...

The European Commission paid to the EU member states, in the first three years, of the total amount of 724 billion euros foreseen in the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (RMR), only 213 billion euros, which represents only a third of the funding...