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The National Institute of Statistics published a press release yesterday showing that in July 2025 the volume of turnover in retail trade (excluding trade in motor vehicles and motorcycles) increased compared to June 2025, both as a gross series...

In a move that could have a major impact on the global energy market, Russia and China signed a historic 30-year agreement on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit to build and operate the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline,...

There are times in international politics when leaders' speeches seem more intent on rewriting perception than reality. This is the case with Chinese President Xi Jinping's statements at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Plus...

The world's ten largest oil-consuming countries represented, in 2024, 61% of the global share. This percentage increases to 80% in the top 20 countries, given that total consumption had a moderate advance of 0.7% annually, according to...

The leaders of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) met these days to lay the foundations of a multipolar world. At least that is what emerges from the text of the Declaration of the Tianjin Summit, a document in which...

The foundation of the West is crumbling - that is what the planned participation of leaders from Russia, North Korea, Iran, and Myanmar at China's "Victory Day” military parade on September 3 in Beijing (commemorating the end of...

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...

Since the beginning of Donald Trump's second presidential term, the USA has transformed from the defender of the democrats, the values and principles of the rule of law, as well as the rights and freedoms of the citizen, into a state in which...

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...

Faced with threats from Beijing and the Kremlin, the West is losing ground because it reacts chaotically, without a common strategy and with fragile political systems, warns Chris Kremidas-Courtney, senior researcher at the European Policy Centre...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was claiming Russia's victory in Ukraine two days ago. According to the website hirado.hu, which quotes the public news agency MTI, Viktor Orban said in an interview with the YouTube channel...

The total costs of the conflict in Ukraine so far are enormous, but so far they do not exceed 15% of the estimated value of the country's mineral resources, a value that experts estimate at $11.5 trillion.

In a world where what political leaders establish today is no longer valid on the same day, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are meeting tomorrow in Alaska, officially to establish a plan to end the conflict in Ukraine, a plan that, as the...

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) indices reached new historical records last month, following developments that were clearly superior to the major international markets, which suggests that the fiscal-budgetary correction measures announced by...

The first package of fiscal measures comes into force today, the impact of the VAT increase from 19 to 21% being the greatest on consumers, who will face price increases in the chain, both for food products that are not part of the 14 cataloged...

The main indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) recorded double-digit increases in the first half of the year, boosted by the result of the presidential elections on May 18, which confirmed the country's pro-European trajectory for the...

Germany is about to bear an immense financial burden: a contribution of around 450 billion euros to the next multiannual EU budget, which runs from 2028 to 2034, shows German economist Thomas Kolbe, in an analysis that was also published by the...

Only one in three entrepreneurs still believes that the national economy will have a positive direction this year, said Florin Jianu, former president of the National Council of Small and Medium-sized Private Enterprises in Romania (CNIPMMR),...

The second quarter of 2025 was, for our country, a tense and decisive period, marked by dramatic political transitions, acute budgetary pressures and economic measures with a profound impact. Against the backdrop of a turbulent political climate...

The European energy transition (green transition), considered by many to be the continent's strategic asset to strengthen its competitive position on the global stage, is in danger of stagnating, due to the lack of mutual trust between...

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...

In 2000, the US was the leading trading partner for most countries in the Americas (North, South and Central), several major economies in Asia-Pacific and parts of Africa, while the EU dominated trade with much of Europe, large areas of Africa...

Yesterday, the European Parliament debated the censure motion initiated by Gheorghe Piperea and supported by 75 more MEPs from the ECR, ID, Patriots for Europe and non-affiliated political groups. In the document submitted on 3 July 2025, the...

US President Donald Trump recently warned that he could impose additional 10% tariffs on countries that align with BRICS, EFE reports.

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.

Europe must reach a level of complete readiness by 2030, capable of deterring any threat, is the joint message conveyed yesterday by Mark Rutte - NATO Secretary General - and Ursula von der Leyen - President of the European Commission, at the...

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...

Former Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former presidential advisor, Iulian Fota, told the BURSA newspaper that Israel and Ukraine are becoming causes of the West by the linking of the two files made by US President...

The official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), considered the largest archaeological museum dedicated to a single civilization, has been postponed again, this time due to the worsening tensions in the Middle East. The event, originally...

Listing of profitable state-owned companies on the Bucharest Stock Exchange seems not to have removed the habits of the political managements appointed to these companies regarding the collection of huge incomes, bonuses and increases, even if...

Robert Fico, the prime minister of Slovakia, recently praised the Uzbek model of "efficient governance.” This is no joke. In the midst of an official visit to Tashkent, the leader from Bratislava saw fit to praise a system that...

Percepţiile despre sudul capitalei sunt, de ani buni, marcate de o serie de mituri şi generalizări care nu mai reflectă realitatea actuală, potrivit unui studiu recent realizat de Reveal Marketing Research. Pe un eşantion reprezentativ de peste...

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...

Nicuşor Dan officially began his term as president of Romania yesterday, after taking the oath of office in the reunified plenary session of Parliament. The solemn moment was blessed by His Beatitude Daniel, the patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox...

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,...

Although he officially lost the presidential elections of May 18, 2025 - a fact confirmed yesterday by the unanimous decision of the judges of the Constitutional Court of Romania who validated the election of Nicuşor Dan as president of the...

The exchange of retorts between George Becali and George Simion in which Becali reacts to Simion's announcement regarding contesting the elections, and Simion responds to Becali's reaction, illustrates that the scandal first broke out in...