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The companies Apple and Meta were fined, yesterday, with 700 million euros by the European Commission for non-compliance with certain provisions of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), according to a press release issued by the Brussels institution....

Innovative cases have led the competition authority to rethink and adapt its intervention methods to new economic realities, which has required innovative solutions in the regulatory framework, said Bogdan Chiriţoiu, president of the Competition...

The British environmental group Just Stop Oil, known for its shocking protests against fossil fuel exploitation, has announced that it will cease such actions by the end of April, AFP reports. Just Stop Oil said in a statement to the press that...

The European Union's rules on social media moderation are being criticized by US officials who say they could unduly restrict freedom of expression. Brendan Carr, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), told the Mobile...

The transaction through which the Hungarian company MVM wants to take over the assets of E.On in our country will end up on the table of the Supreme Council for National Defense, said Bogdan Chiriţoiu, president of the Competition Council,...

Tech giant Meta has been fined euro251 million by the European Union over a security breach that hit its Facebook platform in 2018. According to the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), the flaw allowed hackers to access sensitive information...

The UK has begun implementing the Online Safety Act, which introduces strict regulations for tech platforms and tougher measures against harmful content on the internet. The law, passed in October 2023, aims to protect users from illegal content...

Electoral incidents were not absent from this election, despite the measures taken by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which mobilized 45,500 police officers, gendarmes, firefighters, border guards and workers from other structures nationwide,...

Călin Georgescu is the big winner of the first round of the presidential elections, as he recorded an unprecedented progress for a relatively obscure candidate who was credited with 2% at the beginning of the electoral campaign and was in first...

Residents in more and more cities (Barcelona, Rome, Paris, Venice, Prague...) complain that tourism is turning their lives upside down. Authorities have begun to look for solutions. Officials in Venice have announced the extension of the access...

Germany has fined Hyundai Motor Group subsidiaries 58.5 million euros for using devices to cheat emissions tests on diesel vehicles, but has yet to inform other European Union (EU) countries despite promises of better coordination following...

More than 30 months after the aggression illegally launched by the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the Government and the Parliament in Bucharest still do not have the necessary legislation - with a small exception regarding the powers of the...

French-Italian-American carmaker Stellantis NV confirmed late last week that CEO Carlos Tavares will retire at the end of his contract, i.e. at the beginning of 2026, while announcing significant management changes as a result of not having...

The severe drought affecting the Italian island of Sicily has reached critical heights, leaving many residents of the town of Caltanissetta without running water for over two months. In a situation more reminiscent of the difficulties of...

At the end of July, ANAF exceeded the threshold of 50 billion lei in receipts from the state budget, announced on Friday, on the official Facebook page, Marcel Boloş, the Minister of Finance. According to the official, ANAF's seven-month...

The checks carried out at economic agents on the coast this summer season will be under the light of advice and prevention, said Paul Anghel, the general director of the National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC), on the occasion of the...

Yesterday, the French Ministry of Finance requested in court to fine Carrefour for the contracts with franchised stores that contain "significant imbalances", reports Reuters.

In just two decades, the annual global production of plastic waste has doubled, from 180 million tons to more than 350 million tons, according to the Global Plastics Outlook report of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development...

The democratic exercise of voting seems to be taking root also among Romanian citizens, if we take into account the fact that, in yesterday's combined European parliamentary and local elections, a better participation percentage was recorded...

Several countries among the 38 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have made significant progress in reducing income inequality between men and women.

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...

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...

The statements of the mayor of Sector 1, Clotilde Armand, related to the closing of the town hall, caused a wave of reactions. Following these statements, the Archdiocese of Bucharest announces that it disapproves of the use for electoral...

The Ministry of Culture has repeatedly announced that the restoration of heritage buildings is a short- and medium-term priority. In the field, however, things are still bad, and not necessarily because of the authorities. Several dozen...

The reorganization of ANAF must represent a support for entrepreneurs and not their transformation into victims of excessive controls, states the National Council of Small and Medium Private Enterprises in Romania, in a press release sent to the...

The ceilings on the price of energy, RCA policies and the commercial addition to basic foods will continue this year, due to the four rounds of elections - European, local, parliamentary and presidential, but the competition authority will ensure...

The National Council of Small and Medium Private Enterprises will ask Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu to extend until December 31, 2024 the grace period in which fines are not applied for companies' deviations from the obligations regarding the...

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...

The first government round within a political coalition marked the second half of last year not through the lens of exceptional results, but through the continuation of taking measures that had a negative impact on the business environment, in...

The National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) fined three electricity suppliers with almost 18 million lei and sanctioned two others with a warning, because they purchased through the Centralized Electric Energy Purchase Mechanism (MACEE) a...

The "train" ordinance, which was on the agenda of yesterday's Government meeting, once again disrupted the business environment, because, in addition to postponing some payments and restructuring the activity of some public...

Several companies from our country are being investigated by the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) for being part of an intra-community VAT fraud scheme, a scheme that includes companies from over 30 countries, according to a press...

In the context in which the state budget is facing a deficit of over 56 billion lei, and budget expenses are 14% higher than last year, for which the Ciucă Cabinet approved GEO 90/2023, for the reduction of budget expenses for the year 2023 , the...

Pollution of a river by a company, pollution that would have serious consequences - for example, intoxication of several people or even the death of some of them - will be punished with a maximum of 10 years in prison for the individual...

The change of government at the end of the first semester of this year apparently did not bode well for Prime Minister Ciolacu's team, which found itself with a budget deficit that is increasingly difficult to control and manage, with the...

The explosion at an illegally operating LPG station in Crevedia, a disaster that has so far resulted in four deaths and 54 injuries, revealed last month the corruption within the Romanian state and the inefficiency of the work of some public...

The Crevedia case could have been avoided, but the authorities did not want to; a deliberate assassination took place here. Thus, the Crevedia disaster, from the end of last week, gave us a new complete picture of what a failed state means. Only...

USR president, deputy Cătălin Drulă, former Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, proposes to the PSD-PNL parliamentary majority the implementation of several measures in the new session of the Legislature, which will lead to an increase in...

The Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), the political formation whose president is George Simion, risks a maximum fine of 20 million euros because the mobile application used by the party would have publicly exposed the personal data of...

The system of "Cap and Trade" originated in the U.S.A. by George Bush Senior in the early 1990's as a response to the phenomenon of acid rain which was a pollution of the rain by excess carbon in the atmosphere causing the rain to be...