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Despite the essential role that pension systems play in social protection and in strengthening capital markets in the European Union, the European Commission's efforts to support the development of supplementary pensions (those incomes that...

Global supply chains, the central pillar of the modern world economy, are on the verge of a deep crisis, fueled by the new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on imports from China, according to a series of articles published by...

A study in the UK reveals that extreme poverty can have as strong an impact on babies' brain development as premature birth. Even if babies are born at term, poor socio-economic conditions can negatively influence early brain development. The...

Călin Georgescu has explicitly addressed several fundamental issues of Romania in his speeches and public interventions. Below is an analysis of these issues based on the themes he consistently supports in his statements:

Climate-driven migration is a major concern for governments around the world. The global climate crisis is no longer a distant future, but a present reality. Every year, millions of people are forced to flee their homes due to natural disasters...

The world's agri-food systems generate huge hidden costs, estimated at $12 trillion per year, according to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Modern diseases such as stroke, diabetes and...

A recent World Bank report shows an alarming situation for the world's 26 poorest countries, which are home to 40% of the people most affected by poverty. These economies have reached the highest level of debt in the last 18 years and face...

The Save the Children organization raises the alarm by informing that, at the national level, over 15% of children have not even reached the end of the 8th grade and there are counties where the percentage exceeds 25%. The final results of the...

The Save the Children Romania organization announces the 27th edition of the Summer Kindergartens, with an innovative concept of the Mobile School, which will reach isolated communities affected by severe poverty. In the 2022-2023 school year,...

More than one in four children in the world under the age of 5 lives in "severe food poverty", which means that more than 180 million children are at risk of suffering serious consequences if they do not have a nutritious and diversified...

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu announced yesterday to his colleagues from the PSD-PNL governing coalition that he negotiated with representatives of the business environment the increase of the minimum wage from 3,300 gross lei to 3,700 lei gross,...

BRD Groupe Societe Generale and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, concluded, yesterday, a landmark synthetic significant risk transfer (SRT) transaction, which will release capital with the help of...

Despite some improvements, our country still faces the vulnerability of fiscal revenues, and large budget deficits and high inflation rates, which are all above pre-pandemic levels, make the economy potentially vulnerable to shocks, the European...

Bringing students studying abroad back to the country is a challenge for the authorities. The Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Janina Sitaru, pleaded for the return to the country, after completing their studies, of young...

The data published on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics show that almost a quarter (24.3%) of the population was affected by severe material and social deprivation, the number of poor people being at the end of last year 4,029,000...

Increasing pensions is a main objective of the governing coalition, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said yesterday at the Summit of Local Public Authorities in Romania, an event that took place in Bucharest.

The terrorist attacks that took place on October 7 in Israel, followed by the bombing of Gaza by the armed forces led from Tel Aviv, the attack in Brussels and the return of terrorist threats in the states of Western Europe made October the...

Strasbourg lives a terror, terror being defined also by threat, not necessarily by terrorism in practice. The world is on alert and doing everything to prevent acts of terrorism. All week I was in Strasbourg, on a journalistic trip to the...

It is unlikely that there will be attacks like the one in Brussels in Romania, according to analysts in the field, who say that we have not been the main targets of such events in the past either. Romania is considered by many to be a country...

The European Commission announced yesterday the adoption of the revised Renewable Energy Directive and the ReFuel EU Aviation Regulation - the two final pillars of the "Fit for 55" legislative package, the implementation of which will...

In the context of the energy transition, the implementation of the Green Deal and the digitization of the economy, companies in the EU are facing an acute lack of qualified labor, said yesterday, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the...

The fiscal rules proposed by the European Commission endanger the public investments necessary to combat climate change and, if they were applied, our country could increase its allocation for green investments by only 1%, without jeopardizing...

The arms race is reaching new levels in this period and confirms the data and forecasts presented in mid-spring by the report of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), information which showed that the states of the world...

Thousands of people all over the country have begun taking to the street to protest against the restrictions imposed by the government last week, where protesters no longer abided by the anti-Covid restrictions, as a concrete proof of their...

An increase in the volume of non-performing loans is one of this year's risks for the banking system, Gabriela Folcuţ, Executive Director of the Romanian Banking Association (ARB) told us. "The Balance of Non-Governmental credit evolved...

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...

• IMF: "The initiative of suspending the payment of debts needs to be extended until 2021" 

• Dochia: "If stock market prices rise for two or three weeks, then the rise of gold will slow down"  

In October 2016, the governor of the NBR was saying that "throughout my career I have not seen a better macroeconomic situation for Romania", which was accompanied by "the greatest risks".

• Eugen Teodorovici: "Everybody talks about a European family, but it's every man for himself" 

The world is intensely preparing for a water crisis, the most important resource for human life. The signs, on a continental and global level, that there is a water problem are increasingly clear.

Romania's transition to the single European market will not lead to a drop in prices, in the coming period, as the European Union hopes, but instead to the price of energy almost doubling, the specialists of the National Energy Regulation...

Yesterday's and today's European leaders, the same in their nature, just like yesterday's communists became today's "democrats", have succeeded an amazing performance: they've turned the most ardent supporters of the...

Reporter: In the report about Romania, recently published, the International Monetary Fund states: "The legal risks remain a major problem for the banking system. A wave of recent lawsuits filed based on the Civil Code of Law passed in...

Even though the issue of the aging of the population and of the strain it is putting on the state budget is no longer something new, the recent report of the European Commission (CE) concerning Romania's National Program for Reform has given...

Reporter: Mr. Sebastian Vlădescu, what is your opinion concerning the huge losses suffered by the Romanian banking system in 2012 and what repercussions do you feel they will have on the Romanian economy?

Reporter: Mr. Sebastian Vlădescu, what is your opinion concerning the huge losses suffered by the Romanian banking system in 2012 and what repercussions do you feel they will have on the Romanian economy?

The government in Zimbabwe only has 217 dollars in its treasury, after paying the wages of the employees in the public sector, Finance minister Tendai Biti said, quoted by AFP. "The government's finances are in a state of paralysis at the...

The current economic crisis has lead to increasingly outspoken opinions on the odds of local revolts or even large scale wars. Information is flooding in and is backed by historical precedents, and the finding is simple: the backdrop is there,...