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The European currency recorded its first monthly depreciation against the dollar this year in July, but in the first seven months of 2025 the euro appreciated by 11.9% against the US currency, the best performance in the last eight years.

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.

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...

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...

Pentru sustenabilitatea datoriei publice, în condiţiile în care deficitul bugetar a atins anul trecut 9,3% din Produsul Intern Brut, este necesară o ajustare fiscală masivă, adică o reducere drastică a cheltuielilor publice şi o colectare mai...

For the sustainability of public debt, given that the budget deficit reached 9.3% of Gross Domestic Product last year, a massive fiscal adjustment is necessary, i.e. a drastic reduction in public spending and better collection of revenues to the...

• Once upon a time, it was the "golden decade" 

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 month of spring was a dense one in government decisions, with a wide range of interventions, from support for agriculture and industry to strategic investments in energy, defense, infrastructure and national security. The government led...

The program to support the development of private companies in our country through stock market listing, launched by the Romanian Government through the Ministry of Investments and European Projects, is of almost no interest to entrepreneurs....

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 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...

The second half of 2024 represented a critical turning point for Romania's economy and political stability. In an attempt to counter the ever-expanding budget deficit and ensure macroeconomic balance, the government implemented a series of...

The last financial quarter of last year was a time of intense complexity for the Romanian economy, in which political and economic forces faced significant challenges generated by the general elections, the tense geopolitical context and an...

Over 9.4 million citizens who went to the polls on November 24 had their options canceled by the Constitutional Court of Romania, which, after validating the first round of the presidential elections on December 2, reversed its decision on...

Ukraine's economy grew by 4.2% in the first ten months of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, thanks to the construction, transport and manufacturing sectors, the country's Economy Ministry announced, according to...

The preparation of the campaigns for the presidential and parliamentary elections that will take place on November 24, respectively December 1, led the Government to increase the amount of budget expenditures in the second month of autumn in...

Liviu Dragnea and PSD proposed, in February 2017, the establishment of the Sovereign Development and Investment Fund in 2017, the measure being part of the governing program of the social democrats for the period 2016-2020. As in the current...

The creation of a Sovereign Investment Fund in Romania (SIFIR), which would be capitalized from the collection of royalties and taxes for the exploitation of mineral and energy resources, as well as from the dividends of state-owned energy...

• Evolution of the romanian defense industry in the context of the new arms race 

After the American vice president Kamala Harris presented at the end of last week her economic program as a candidate for the position of the president of the USA, we wonder if what is called the Simion Plan still looks like a utopia - as...

The first month of summer was more hectic than usual due to the fact that, in addition to the budgetary problems faced by the Government, on June 9 we had European parliamentary and local elections, new amendments to normative acts in the field...

In 2023, Romania's economy recorded a moderation in the growth rate, to 2.1%, which however remained relatively solid from a European and regional perspective. The twin deficits remained at high levels, while the annual inflation rate evolved...

The need for a real partnership between political decision-makers and civil society, between governments, parliaments and citizens, was the main topic of debate at the 12th edition of the Global Forum of Modern Direct Democracy, an event that...

Following the crises that followed from 2019 until now and the over-indebtedness of companies, individuals, but also of states, it is vital that the mechanisms to prevent insolvency or bankruptcy work correctly and an interpretation agreed by all...

The loans contracted by the European Union will represent in the coming years a real bomb from the community budget that will have to be defused by the decision-makers in Brussels, claims Nicolas-Jean Brehon, budget advisor of the Schumann...

Through the National Recovery and Resilience Program (PNRR), Romania has committed to carrying out tax reform in 2025. Until the elections for the Romanian Parliament in December 2024, citizens would have the opportunity to participate in an...

Political decision-makers in Bucharest continued in the last month of the first quarter of the current year to adopt decisions regarding the extension of some price capping measures and to dilute the provisions of Law 296/2023 and GEO 115/2023...

The construction sector is one of the main contributors to the creation of the Gross Domestic Product, but it is currently facing problems generated by the bureaucracy from the central and local public authorities, lending from the banking sector...

Reporter: What are your objectives in the current term of office as vice president of the Financial Supervisory Authority, responsible for the capital market?

The shock in the energy sector has strongly affected companies in our country, about a third reporting a large increase in energy expenses, compared to companies in the United States, according to a survey by the European Investment Bank (EIB)...

The Free Navalist Union from the Mangalia Naval Shipyard (DSMa) yesterday sent an open letter to Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu presenting the dramatic situation faced by the economic operator and its 1,500 employees.

Last year's spectacular evolution of the main shares on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), when the BET index increased by 32% and with dividends the advance rose to almost 40%, will not be repeated this year, according to the opinions...

Traditionally, the second month of the year should be marked by the beginning of the first parliamentary session and less by the visibility of the work carried out by the government, but the electoral year 2024 seems out of the ordinary, in view...

One warm, the other cold at the Ministry of Transport, as long as CNAIR managed to start all the projects financed from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, but the Port of Constanţa has problems accessing European money, according to the...

The European Parliament will ask the European Commission to condition the allocation of European funds on the status of a member state of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, according to the proposed resolution on the rule of law that...

The business environment appreciates the fact that the Government has taken the necessary steps in the direction of digitization and taxation, but for the success of the respective reform it is necessary that the ANAF staff have the necessary...

The euro earlier this year faced its worst January since 2015, falling 2.2 percent against the dollar, and further depreciation is likely, according to investment banks Rabobank and Credit Agricole.

Last year, the governments of Ciucă and Ciolacu failed to comply with the state budget law approved in December 2022, a normative act drawn up by the PSD-PNL governing coalition and which provided for an increase in budget expenditures, but also...