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The payments landscape is undergoing a technological revolution, transforming how consumers and businesses exchange value. While cards and conventional digital payments are becoming increasingly dominant worldwide, they still face persistent...

The Recovery and Resilience Mechanism cannot be considered a truly "performance-based" instrument, states a report published last night by the European Court of Auditors (ECA). The cited document states that, although payments are not...

According to the activity report for 2024 published yesterday by the European Public Prosecutor's Office, our country is in third place, in the Top 4 of European states that have defrauded the EU budget. The first place is occupied by Italy,...

The number of hybrid attacks from the Russian Federation on our country increased in 2024, according to the activity report for last year of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) posted on the website of...

OLAF (Anti-Fraud Office) inspectors have uncovered a 700,000 Euro fraud in one of the projects financed by the European Union in the Danube Delta, according to a press release issued yesterday by the European institution in Brussels. The OLAF...

Călin Georgescu, who last year posed as a peacemaker, called his supporters last Friday in front of the headquarters of the Constitutional Court of Romania to protest against the decision of December 6, 2024 regarding the cancellation of the...

European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) inspectors, who were checking in Hungary in 2018 the allocation of European funds to certain projects executed by the company of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's son-in-law, were closely monitored by security...

The European Public Prosecutor's Office has opened more than 2,000 investigations, with an estimated damage value of 23 billion euros, but the large volume of files and the complexity of the cases far exceed the institution's...

Roxana Mînzatu, the Ciolacu government's proposal for the position of European Commissioner from Romania, was nominated yesterday by Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, as one of the six vice-presidents of the...

The monitoring by means of the Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 satellites (of the Copernicus program), of the agricultural plots in our country, led to the discovery last year of 453 farmers who intended to defraud the subsidies granted from European...

The anti-corruption prosecutors are dissatisfied with the monthly salary of 5,000 euros and believe that they should receive an income equal to that of their DNA colleagues who are seconded to the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO),...

Our country ranks first in the ranking of investigations completed in 2023 by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) regarding the use of EU funds managed or spent in whole or in part at the national or regional level, the Brussels-based...

During May, the government continued to make chaotic decisions regarding budget expenditures, although the deficit after the first four months of the current year stood at 3.24% of the Gross Domestic Product, i.e. a minus of 57.29 billion lei...

Tony Murphy, president of the European Court of Auditors (ECA - European Court of Accounts), states that the deadline - December 31, 2026 - for the implementation of the NRDPs represents a factor that "contributes even more to the risk"...

Not even 48 hours after Cristian Popescu Piedone, the mayor of Sector 5, publicly announced his candidacy for the position of general mayor of the Capital in the local elections that would take place in June at the same time as the European...

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 political scene in our country was awakened to reality, from the sweet sleep it had fallen into during the winter holidays, on January 9, when hundreds of farmers began to move to the Capital, dissatisfied with the fiscal measures imposed by...

The European Parliament seems to have become a hotbed of criminals, as according to an investigation carried out by the Belgian dailies L'Echo and De Tijd, picked up by the Belgian website La Libre, it shows that almost one in four MEPs is...

Radu Soviani: What is your relationship with the Drăgoi family?

The National Agency for Fiscal Administration and the General Directorate for Anti-Tax Fraud will have zero tolerance for tax evasion this year, said Marcel Boloş, the Minister of Finance, yesterday, during a press conference in which they...

The closure in 2023 of more than 6,700 criminal corruption cases due to the intervention of the criminal statute of limitations could have been avoided if the politicians who occupied the seat of Minister of Justice from November 2019 until now...

The Financial Supervision Authority is waiting for the vote tonight or tomorrow by the plenary of the Parliament which will confirm the choice of the new management team made yesterday by the members of the joint committees of the budget,...

Brussels wants to establish a financial mechanism for Ukraine, although the budget deficit of the European Union for 2022 was 107.6 billion euros higher than in 2021 (344.3 billion euros in 2022 and 236.7 billion euros in 2021) according to the...

Clotilde Armand, the mayor of District 1 of the capital, is being prosecuted by the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Bucharest District 1 Court, following the notification submitted to the prosecutors by the National Integrity Agency. The...

Cryptocurrencies can no longer be ignored by banks and categorized as a fringe movement, something which has become increasingly evident lately as investment in the cryptocurrency market has grown considerably, and high-profile names such as Elon...

In 2020, in Romania, the pandemic triggered by Covid19 highlighted the vulnerabilities of the public (state) health system both at the level of medical units and at the national level. I am thinking of the precarious medical infrastructure, not...

The European Anti-Fraud Office last year issued nine recommendations of recouping European grants, in 11 cases investigated in Romania, which puts the country on an unenviable top position in the EU, according to its activity report for 2019 of...

The disastrous economic effects of the pandemic have revealed once again the deep dissensions of the European Union. Disregarding the concept expressed in the English saying that "beggars can't be choosers", Europe's poor...

On September 3, 2018, the Wirecard stock reached the all-time high of 195.5 euros on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. On June 17, 2020, the price WDI was 104.5 euros, and at the end of last week the closing price was 3.3 euros, after reaching a low...

Reporter: What is your view on the current economic situation?

Globalization has also brought with it an unpleasant effect: cross-border corruption. According to the intermediate report Exporting Corruption for the year 2018, a document drawn up by the organization Transparency International, there is a...

The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Liviu Dragnea, leader of the PSD, thinks that his enemies are hiding behind some institutions, "they crucify people", and the real stake is "the blocking of the Laws concerning the Justice...

Reporter: How did CEC Bank end the first semester of the current year, from a financial point of view?

The bail-in (the seizure of unguaranteed deposits to save distressed banks) has become a hot topic over the last few days, increasingly approached by the media institutions, but also by analysts, legal experts and members of Parliament.

The Greek authorities have yesterday made the commitment to make reforms in the fiscal sector and of the pension system, "starting next week", and in return asking for a three-year loan from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM),...

Reporter: One of the burning issues that some banks, as well as some consumers are faced with, is that of loans denominated in Swiss francs. As OTP Bank is one of the institutions that have granted such loans and taking into account the fact that...

Reporter: What are your expectations from the new elect president of Romania?

Last week, the prosecutors of the DIICOT have announced that they have conducted an operation for dismantling a criminal faction specializing in the manipulation of the stock market. According to several market sources, this concerns the...

Reporter: Mr. Mihai Bogza, as president of the Foreign Investors Council, how would you describe the evolution of the business environment in Romania in the year that has just ended?

The reconstruction of the national irrigation structure could be financed by issuing bonds and selling them to the population, sources in the sector say. The recent statements of Daniel Botănoiu, secretary of state in the Ministry of Agriculture...