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Germany is about to bear an immense financial burden: a contribution of around 450 billion euros to the next multiannual EU budget, which runs from 2028 to 2034, shows German economist Thomas Kolbe, in an analysis that was also published by the...

The BET index, which reflects the evolution of the twenty most liquid securities listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), has registered an increase of about 18% since the end of the presidential elections in May, thus exceeding the dynamics...

Only one in three entrepreneurs still believes that the national economy will have a positive direction this year, said Florin Jianu, former president of the National Council of Small and Medium-sized Private Enterprises in Romania (CNIPMMR),...

The administration of President Donald Trump is facing a wave of severe criticism after the press revealed that tons of food intended for malnourished children will be incinerated, in the context in which the United States drastically reduces...

• April 3 

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...

Political negotiations to shape a governing coalition were the constant of the first 22 days of June, a period in which the leaders of the PSD, PNL, USR, UDMR and those of the National Minorities Group discussed intensively at the Cotroceni...

The motion of censure against the Bolojan Government was read by AUR senator - Petrişor Peiu, yesterday, July 11, in the reunified plenary of the Parliament, in an almost empty hall, in which only the echo was heard. Not only the representatives...

Deşi securitatea şi apărarea, alături de competitivitate, vor fi priorităţile bugetului Uniunii Europene pentru perioada 2028-2034, Parlamentul European solicită Comisiei Europene să menţină alocări separate şi clar definite pentru Politica de...

Subscriptions in the Fidelis offering carried out during this period by the Ministry of Finance amounted to almost 590 million lei yesterday, at the middle of the stock exchange session, according to our aggregated data from the platform of a...

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 National Library of Romania has substantially increased the fees for access cards, a measure that comes into force as of July 3, 2025. Thus, the annual fee for full access has increased from 30 lei to 300 lei, while pupils, students and...

Representatives of the gambling industry in our country claim that the increase in taxation of winnings and new taxes imposed on companies in the field will lead to the contraction of this industry and the movement of players to the black market....

Tax consultant Gabriel Biriş, a lawyer and former secretary of state at the Ministry of Finance during the Cioloş government, claims that the package of fiscal changes proposed by the Bolojan Cabinet is the lesser evil.

Immediately after the presentation of the tax measures package proposed by the Bologna government, the business community in our country reacted by stating that the legislative proposal is not only untimely, but also potentially destructive for...

Economic expert, university professor Dr. Mircea Coşea, told us that the package of fiscal measures presented yesterday by Finance Minister Alexandru Nazare is toxic for the country's economy.

The increase in dividend tax, from 10%, as it is now, to 16%, as it will be from the beginning of next year, will not have too much of an impact on long-term investors, believes Dragoş Mesaroş, trading director of financial brokerage company...

Increasing the dividend tax is seen as one of the methods of increasing the state's tax revenues. Basically, a year ago, the dividend tax was 8%, which means that, in a short period of time, we are witnessing a doubling of it, Alin Brendea, a...

The world is witnessing an unprecedented scandal at the highest political and economic level, between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. At the center of attention, as he wants, is the US president himself, whose mother claimed, in an interview in 1997,...

The Supreme Council for National Defense (CSAT), led for the first time by President Nicuşor Dan, met yesterday at the Cotroceni Palace, in a meeting that lasted over three and a half hours. The meeting also marks the first participation of the...

Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan declared, after Friday's government meeting, that Romania is in a delicate budgetary situation, determined by chronic deficits accumulated in recent years, the largest of which was recorded last year. "We have...

With the return of the electricity market in our country to free market status, with the termination of the cap-compensation scheme on July 1, consumers will directly feel the market variations, and for many of them, the energy bill could become...

The interim government of the last month of spring continued the previous policy of the Ciolacu Cabinet, and resorted to increasing budget spending, by allocating to local authorities, at their discretion, significant amounts from the Budgetary...

May 2025 represented a rare moment of political intensity for Romania, with a tense electoral climate, spectacular reversals and major consequences in the governance landscape. It all started with the first round of the presidential elections on...

The end of the calendar spring, the month of May, represented a turning point both in the political evolution and in the shaping of Romania's economic and financial trajectory, marking major transitions, institutional volatility, but also...

• The fiscal deficit and the reaction of the capital market 

The government led by Ilie Bolojan, made up of the pro-European coalition formed by PSD, PNL, USR, UDMR and the National Minorities Group, passed the Parliament vote yesterday, with 301 votes in favor out of the 310 votes cast and 9 votes...

În actualul context în care cheltuielile bugetare sunt destul de ridicate, iar statul a ajuns să se împrumute pentru acoperirea lor, este nevoie nu doar de reduceri ale unora dintre cheltuieli, ci şi de creşterea veniturilor bugetare pentru plata...

A direct increase to 10% of the tax applied to capital gains, without allowing for the offset of losses, would strongly discourage investments on the Romanian capital market, reduce liquidity, limit companies' access to financing and could...

The state should start with reducing budget spending and administrative reform before introducing new taxes or increasing existing ones, Senator Florin Jianu, former president of the National Council of Small and Medium-sized Private Enterprises...

The measures negotiated and approved at the Cotroceni Palace have not yet passed through the leaderships of the parties that will form the future government, but it is certain that not all liberals agree with the supertaxation of stock market...

The state should start with reducing budget spending and administrative reform before introducing new taxes or increasing existing ones, Senator Florin Jianu, former president of the National Council of Small and Medium-sized Private Enterprises...

In the current context in which budget expenditures are quite high, and the state has come to borrow to cover them, there is a need not only to reduce some of the expenditures, but also to increase budget revenues to pay for these expenditures,...

According to several political sources quoted by the media, the PNL, UDMR and USR accepted yesterday, according to several political sources quoted by the media, the idea of a rotating government that PSD has supported since the beginning of the...

Listing of profitable state-owned companies on the Bucharest Stock Exchange seems not to have removed the habits of the political managements appointed to these companies regarding the collection of huge incomes, bonuses and increases, even if...

In our country, 1.36 million children are affected by severe poverty, social exclusion and lack of access to essential services, informs the Save the Children Organization. Of these, only slightly over 27,000 currently benefit from the services...

The Governor of the National Bank of Romania, Mugur Isărescu, issued a clear warning yesterday regarding the direction of economic reforms and the risks associated with current fiscal policies. In a message directly addressed to the government,...

For the sustainability of public debt, given that the budget deficit reached 9.3% of Gross Domestic Product last year, a massive fiscal adjustment is necessary, i.e. a drastic reduction in public spending and better collection of revenues to the...

Investors prefer euro-denominated government bonds, within the Fidelis offering that is taking place during this period, marked by uncertainty related to the formation of the government and the measures that will be implemented to correct our...

Hungary has suddenly decided to increase its target for foreign currency bond issuance this year, as the government in Budapest seeks new funds to cover a growing budget deficit, Bloomberg reports, according to Agerpres.