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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...

July 1

The European Commission's proposal for the modernisation of the EU's energy networks, presented on Wednesday 10 December, officially presents itself as a leap forward, but if we look closely at the documents, from the "Guidance on...

Energy distributors support the elimination, from April 1, 2026, of the price cap on natural gas, but point out that, in order to reduce the impact of undesirable developments on the wholesale market, solutions must be found to protect consumers,...

The natural gas bill will increase by 5% for the final consumer starting April 1, 2026, after the capping scheme ends on March 31, announced Laurenţiu Urluescu, president of the Romanian Energy Suppliers Association (AFEER), yesterday during an...

September brought to the forefront of the political scene one of the toughest confrontations between the Government, the opposition and society in recent years. The cabinet led by Ilie Bolojan entered at full speed into a succession of decisions...

Like any football fan, fan or consumer in our country, I was also curious to see how the Hungarian-language press in our country treated the incidents in Miercurea Ciuc between Dinamo supporters and the police, as well as the supporters of the...

The return to the liberalized electricity market should not be recorded as a shock for consumers, especially since the state will continue to support vulnerable consumers and especially since not all bills will register increases, according to...

We are faced with a series of decisions presented by Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan as necessary, but without the Executive having offered the general public a clear analysis of their economic effects. Beyond the image arguments, what is missing is...

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...

• Gold price down 

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...

Ten years of presidency ended with a resignation, with Klaus Iohannis thus ending his two terms not in glory, but in disgrace. On February 10, the former president announced his resignation in order to avoid a political crisis generated by the...

Lin Jian, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, expressed China's willingness to work with the European Union to address global challenges, in a swift response to US President Donald Trump's aggressive trade policy in his speech...

Reporter: How did 2024 end for energy suppliers, and what are the prospects for 2025?

The end of the calendar autumn was marked by the presidential and parliamentary elections that took place on November 24 and December 1. For this reason, in order to increase its chances before the election and to maximize the chances of its own...

The Government adopted the new Energy Strategy of Romania 2025-2035, with the perspective of 2050, a programmatic document that establishes six essential strategic objectives for the sustainable development of the national energy sector: energy...

The publication by Transelectrica of the prices regarding the energy balancing market displeased the electricity suppliers, who found that, although they sell a megawatt (MW) for 400 lei, they have to pay a balancing price of 1890 lei/MW. Among...

The law capping interest on loans granted by non-banking financial institutions (IFNs) and debt collectors has, unfortunately, big, essential differences compared to the original draft, lawyer Gheorghe Piperea, current MEP, who wrote the draft...

China's fiscal stimulus is losing its effectiveness, being more of a strategy to buy time for the country's industrial and consumer policies, says Yunbang Xu, senior analyst at S&P Global Ratings, in a report published last week,...

• March 1 

• February 1st 

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...

The construction sector continues to lead the list of companies entering insolvency in 2023 in our country, despite the support measures taken by the Government for this field of activity, shows the study carried out by Coface Romania and...

The growth of the United States economy fueled a new appreciation of the US dollar, a rally that will be tested this month by the economic data to be published and the decisions of the Federal Reserve that will be taken at the meeting on...

The Covid-19 lockdown and the associated economic crisis have irrevocably changed people's lives. One of the changes with a long term impact has been the acceleration of the transition towards digital payments: customers have avoided using...

History only covers a little over 5000 years in the evolution of the world. Slow at first, it has picked up pace to a dizzying speed, and the major changes are no longer taking place over a man's lifetime, but in just a few decades, and...

The health crisis we are going through has not only driven us apart, as individuals, but has moved us, as a country, away from the Eurozone. Experts point out that if before the Covid-19 pandemic, we were already far from meeting the accession...

Hidroelectrica has developed its supply component year after year, and in the coming years, the company's intention is to become an active player on the supplier market, after it doubled the quantity of energy supplied to end consumers in...

The biggest challenge for the world right now is to find a way out of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on avoiding new epidemic waves after social distancing measures are loosened, says Andre Cappon, founding president of CBM Group of New...

• "Starting with July 1st, the prices of electricity for end users will depend on the competitive market"  

The lack of legislative predictability and instability have caused investors not to make investment decisions concerning the extraction of natural gas in the Black Sea, says Virgil Popescu, vice-president of the Commission for Industries and...

The offshore law will once again reach the Commission, in one or two weeks, according to Mr. Virgil Popescu, the vice-president of the Commission for Industries and Services, the Chamber of Deputies.

PNL senator Daniel Cătălin Zamfir does not disappoint. His draft law concerning the capping of interest rates was the first that appeared on the agenda yesterday, in the common meeting of the specialized commissions and despite the controversies...

The financial banking system seems to be the focus of most of the investigation entities. After being audited by the National Tax Administration Agency (ANAF) and by the National Consumer Protection Authority (ANPC), some of the banks which...

The non-banking financial institutions have been fined a total of 337,000 lei, following the audit conducted by the National Consumer Protection Agency (ANPC), between May 8th, 2017 - June 16th, 2017, according to a report of the ANPC, published...

The European Commission reacted on Tuesday, after the deputies of the Commission for Industries and Services have passed a series of amendments to the Natural Gas Law, according to which the gas producers will be required to fully trade their...

After voting in favor of the introduction, in the Law of Giving in payment, of a cap of 150,000 Euros for the amount of the loan at the time of its granting, social-democrats seem to be having second thoughts on that aspect.