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While Washington and Brussels are erecting their economic walls, Romania is projected to become the "industrial shield” of the East. But this role as a safety net in the new architecture of power comes with structural costs that...

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....

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...

Western hegemony - primarily the U.S., but also the EU - is being challenged and besieged by China, backed by the BRICS bloc and part of the Global South, which promote multipolarity as an alternative. Pressure also comes from states hit by the...

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...

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...

Reporter: You are at the end of your mandate as general manager. Remus Vulpescu is next.

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 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...

Donald Trump was inaugurated yesterday for his second term in the White House, following a lavish ceremony that was the most expensive inauguration ceremony of an American president.

The year 2025 is shaping up to be difficult for investors on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), with the major budget deficit of our country, which must be reduced through fiscal measures with a possible impact on companies, the economic...

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...

The Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, Dorin Recean, yesterday asked the Parliament in Chisinau to declare a state of emergency in the energy sector for a period of 60 days. The decision comes against the background of the risk of ceasing...

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...

The national economy will register an economic growth between 1.2 and 1.8% at the end of 2024, much lower than the one announced by the Government, of 2.8%, based on the data provided by the National Strategy and Forecasting Commission , said...

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu does not have a plan, not even one copied from the Simion Plan or inspired by the Kamala Harris Plan, for the development of our country in the coming years, but only now is he trying to bury it by appealing to...

Our country will in the next five years have new total capacities of 10,000 Megawatts of solar and wind energy production and new modernized gas plants with a total capacity of 3500 Megawatts, Sebastian Burduja, the Minister of Energy, said...

The lack of fiscal predictability is an acute problem for American investors in our country, the representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce in Romania (AmCham) stated yesterday, during the press conference in which they presented the...

Residential projects seem to be on stand-by this year, a fact that can be felt in the activity of construction material producers in our country, who also faced a decrease in the volume of works in the residential area last year, but with a...

The manufacturer of construction materials Prefab Bucharest (PREH) reported a net profit of 0.9 million lei for last year, well below the 7.7 million lei obtained in 2022, even though operating income rose by 22.1 %, up to 120.5 million lei,...

The incompetence of the public authorities left its full mark on the end of the year, the month of December being marked by two tragedies that show the fact that, despite the tragedies at Colectiv and Crevedia, despite the scandal of the Asylums...

Eastern European countries have a competitiveness problem amid successive wage increases in recent years, and the foreign direct investment they benefit from could suffer, according to a recent study carried out by the IESEG School of Management,...

The manufacturer of construction materials Prefab Bucharest (PREH) achieved a net profit of 0.8 million lei, for the first nine months of this year, well below the 7.5 million lei in the same period of 2022, even if the figure of business...

• (Interview with Ondrej Safar, CEO of CEZ Romania) 

Christine Lagarde, the president of the ECB, talked a lot, but essentially said nothing, in the virtual conference organized by the ECB, which reaplced the Annual Sintra Forum.

The European Commission's statement on the "EU budget that fuels the recovery plan for Europe" states that "most of the recovery measures will be funded by a temporary recovery instrument, Next Generation EU, with a financial...

The biggest challenge for the world right now is to find a way out of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on avoiding new epidemic waves after social distancing measures are loosened, says Andre Cappon, founding president of CBM Group of New...

Reporter: What is the strategy of Ligatne Ltd for expansion on the Romanian natural gas distribution market, by acquiring Petrom Distribuţie Gaze?

The first draft bill requires companies exploiting natural resources and markets, other than natural gas, to pay a special tax of 0.5%, which will be applied to the income taken into account for calculating turnover. If approved, this fee will be...

Reporter: What opportunities for growth does Romania have in the current context?

• Interview with Mr. Claudiu Doltu, state secretary in the Ministry of Finance 

• Interview with Mr. Claudiu Doltu, state secretary in the Ministry of Finance 

The Government will cancel over 1.1 billion lei of debts oustanding of 35 thermal plants owned by several mayoralties, a process which is expected to tale at most three months to complete. The government is thereby willing to wipe the amounts...

AUra Dragomir

• Significant stabilization of macroeconomic environment stimulated by EU convergence process 

After nearly three years of "hard persuasive work," studies, analyses and debates, The National Bank has finally managed to convice The Ministry of Finance of the necessity to "denominate the ROL," that is, to replace the existing...