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The second semester of last year marked our country's entry into a fiscal-budgetary consolidation phase forced by reality, after a first semester that pushed the deficit to 3.68% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and amplified the risk of a...

The Government's decision to grant the head of the Prime Minister's Chancellery the final authority in approving SAFE projects, in situations where the participating institutions do not reach consensus, transforms the Chancellery into the...

The middle of the calendar summer represented a turning point for our country, marked by a tense economic, financial and political climate, which led to the first firm decisions of the Bolojan Government towards stabilizing public finances and...

The number of layoffs in the US reached 744,000 in June 2025, which means an increase of almost two times compared to last year.

The second quarter of 2025 was, for our country, a tense and decisive period, marked by dramatic political transitions, acute budgetary pressures and economic measures with a profound impact. Against the backdrop of a turbulent political climate...

Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan assumed responsibility in Parliament for a large fiscal package, justifying the measures as a national emergency and an act of responsibility, in the context of a critical economic situation. In his speech, the head of...

The Ministry of Finance yesterday made the legislative package on fiscal-budgetary measures aimed at reducing the current budget deficit transparent, a package that provides for doubling the bank turnover tax, increasing VAT, increasing excise...

At a time when part of the political class would like to resort to tax increases to recover the budget deficit, MP Claudiu Năsui (USR), former Minister of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism in the Cîţu government, states in a post on his...

The middle of the calendar spring, April, represented a fiery month for the Romanian economy, in light of the pressure put by the presidential elections scheduled for May 4 and 18, but also by the need to take legislative, fiscal and...

Donald Trump began the first part of his speech to Congress by committing a sacrilege: he demoted the first American president in history, George Washington, to second place. Who is in first place? Of course, Donald Trump, who brought back to 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...

The social and political convulsions of the first three months of the current year left their mark on the entire semester, because the PSD-PNL coalition turned to the state piggy bank to calm them down. Thus, the Ciolacu government decided to...

Social convulsions have been a constant in the first three months of the current year, with a peak in January, when almost half of the country's major cities were blocked by farmers' and transporters' protests, which lasted for three...

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...

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...

Radu Soviani: Mr. Stolojan, how does mass privatization look now compared to the initial intentions for this program?

MediaSind Romanian Union of Journalists, together with its subsidiary MediaSind TVR, in agreement with resolutions voted by the MediaSind Romanian Union of Journalists and its affiliated members in the General Shareholder Meetings, have...

The organoizational chart of the ASF is missing from its official website.

We are going through a period where, like never before, the non-banking financial markets are in turmoil and there are few people who remember April 30, 2013 when the Romanian Financial Oversight Authority was created. Uniting three former...

The inability of the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF) to fulfill its role is now visible, without the need for specialized subtleties, because the chaos induced in the SIF market has reached the stage where it requires the intervention from...

• (Interview with Mircea Ursache, former president of ASF) 

More than four and a half years after the explosion of the Swiss franc, (CHF), after repeated protests by debtors, wide scale debates in the Parliament, concerning draft laws on the matter, promises by politicians and banks that they would...

Not only the weather was hot in July, but the economic, social and political matters as well. Even though it began with the validation of Mugur Isărescu for the sixth time at the helm of the NBR, it went on with Simona Halep winning Wimbledon and...

The day after losing the elections, Dragnea has gone to jail.

The versatility of the UDMR is notorious, because we are talking about a political party which has always wanted to be in the government.

Even without the court ruling rendered in first instance by the High Court of Cassation and Justice in the lawsuit of the fictitious hiring at the Child Protection Department of Teleorman the focus on getting all the institutional levers under...

Some would say that America's fate is sealed through the coming of a narcissist in the White House. On the other hand, Donald Trump's narcissism, as a president, is still an unknown, whereas Barack Obama's narcissism has been proven...

THE PRESS RELEASE OF THE BSE

The latest monthly report of the Bundesbank should come as a shock to those that promote the idea of a European "spring" after the crisis of the last few years.

• Interview with Sebastian Vlădescu, former minister of Finance 

If it wasn"t for the IMF coming over to visit on April 27th, to decide whether they"re going to give us in June, the fifth installment of the loan (850 million Euros), then president Traian Băsescu would stop making a fuss on B1 TV that...

Staff expenses should be reduced this year by eliminating 100,00 jobs, but this kind of mass layoffs require a strong political will, said Lucian Croitoru, advisor to the governor of the NBR, who said he doesn"t rule out the use of unpaid...

The new government has celebrated the end of 2008 with Emergency Ordnances, with one of the steps consisting in the increase of the social security contributions under normal work conditions to 28%, starting 2009, compared to the value of 27,5%...

The media have been paying close attention to the recent debate on fiscal reform, a debate involving representatives of the business community, the civil society, the foreign investors and, last but not least, the very energetic US ambassador....