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The United Nations is preparing to reduce the number of troops and police involved in its peacekeeping missions by about 25%, an unprecedented measure in the last two decades, caused by an acute lack of funds. According to senior UN officials...

China's state-backed iron ore buyer instructed the country's top steelmakers and traders last week to temporarily halt all dollar purchases of seaborne iron ore from Australian giant BHP, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with...

Vladimir Putin has verbally attacked, this time, the countries located to the west of Russia. At the Valdai Discussion Forum in Sochi, the Russian leader launched a series of harsh criticisms of the electoral processes in Europe, invoking the...

A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that between 2001 and 2024, the Earth reflected less sunlight, which means that the planet has become "darker". The phenomenon is especially...

Bulgaria's transition to the euro from January 1, 2026 will not have a strong influence on tourism prices in the neighboring country, Lucian Bădîrcea, CEO of IRI Travel, recently stated during a press conference organized at the Prestige...

An internal audit report (which can be read...

The decorative paints and coatings industry in our country has grown solidly in recent years, reaching a volume of 240,000 tons in 2024, equivalent to almost 490 million euros. Estimates show that, by the end of 2025, the market will exceed the...

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...

At a time when the balance of global power is being reconfigured and transatlantic alliances are seeking reconfirmation, US President Donald Trump's official visit to the UK has gone beyond the protocol framework and royal pomp of Windsor,...

The takeover of Popeci Utilaj Greu from Craiova by Automecanica SA Mediaş, which is being re-analyzed by the members of the Foreign Direct Investment Examination Committee (CEISD), following the re-notification of this institution, raises several...

Street protests have demonstrated, in the last two decades, that social networks are not only communication tools, but also true "virtual markets” where civic movements are born. From the "yellow vests” in France to...

Russia, through nuclear giant Rosatom, announced late last week that it is not stopping the Paks 2 project in Hungary, according to press reports in Budapest and Moscow, despite Thursday's ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union,...

The geopolitical and economic storm that is shaping up around the US dollar is taking on unexpected proportions after the recent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (ed. - Shanghai Cooperation Organisation - SCO), which took place...

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 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...

59% of Romanians believe that the Legionary Movement was a criminal organization, 17% reject this statement, and the rest do not have a firm answer, shows the poll conducted by Avangarde between August 19-24, 2025 on a sample of 1,100 adults,...

Intel executives told Reuters on Tuesday they were concerned that the new ownership structure could hurt international sales, limit the company's access to future grants and expose the business to new regulatory constraints after the Trump...

The European Commission has announced that the 15% tariff imposed by the US will also have to be paid by European wine and spirits producers, which will have negative effects on them, but also on farmers on the old continent, according to an...

Financial markets did not register significant reactions after the meeting at the end of last week between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, nor in anticipation of the meeting scheduled in Washington between Trump,...

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...

Într-un demers fără precedent, Vaticanul a organizat săptămâna trecută, la Roma, „Jubileul Misionarilor Digitali şi al Influencerilor Catolici”, adunând sute de preoţi, călugăriţe, laici şi influenceri din spaţiul online,...

European armies only have 50% of the means we need today, according to NATO objectives, said European Commissioner for Defence, Andrius Kubilius, in an interview with Euractiv. That is why the European Commission official stresses the urgency of...

In an unprecedented move, the Vatican organized the "Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers” in Rome last week, bringing together hundreds of priests, nuns, laypeople and influencers from the online space to...

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...

Numirea vicepremierului Marian Neacşu, la finalul săptămânii trecute, în grupul de lucru interministerial pentru reforma companiilor de stat ridică semne serioase de întrebare în raport cu obiectivele asumate public de această structură. Deşi...

The appointment of Deputy Prime Minister Marian Neacşu, at the end of last week, to the inter-ministerial working group for the reform of state-owned companies raises serious questions regarding the objectives publicly assumed by this structure....