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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 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...

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...

Romania's entry with land borders into the Schengen area, one of the most important diplomatic achievements of the beginning of the year, was quickly overshadowed by a series of events that strained the country's political, social and...

The first month of spring was a dense one in government decisions, with a wide range of interventions, from support for agriculture and industry to strategic investments in energy, defense, infrastructure and national security. The government led...

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...

The transaction through which the Hungarian company MVM wants to take over the assets of E.On in our country will end up on the table of the Supreme Council for National Defense, said Bogdan Chiriţoiu, president of the Competition Council,...

The second half of 2024 represented a critical turning point for Romania's economy and political stability. In an attempt to counter the ever-expanding budget deficit and ensure macroeconomic balance, the government implemented a series of...

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu declared yesterday, after the meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Tanczos Barna, Minister of Finance, that the budget for the current year will be built with caution, so as to fall within a 7% deficit, according to...

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 Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, Dorin Recean, yesterday asked the Parliament in Chisinau to declare a state of emergency in the energy sector for a period of 60 days. The decision comes against the background of the risk of ceasing...

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 Polish government will extend the electricity price cap for household consumers for the first nine months of 2025, Reuters reports.

Roxana Mînzatu, our country's proposal for the position of European Commissioner, successfully passed her hearing yesterday by the members of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Internal Affairs (LIBE), Labor Force and Social Affairs (EMPL),...

The free market, without government restrictions, and governed by the rules of fair competition, is the essential condition for the economic growth of our country in the coming years, stated the participants at the conference "Competition in...

Water is one of the vital resources of life which is heavily affected by pollution.

The dependence of our country on energy imports, in certain periods, and the need for capitalization of companies in the energy sector, so that they can increase the energy production capacity at national level, are the reasons why the Ministry...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is "an incompetent and corrupt organisation", claims Dr Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, as quoted by news site brusselssignal.eu. Christopher...

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...

The Ministry of Energy launched, on Friday, in public consultation, the project of Romania's Energy Strategy for the period 2025-2035, with the perspective of 2050, a document that foresees investments of 16 billion euros from European funds....

There are certain things heavily promoted on various channels that are very harmful to people's health. Tobacco, ultra-processed foods, fossil fuels and alcohol, promoted by industry lobbies, are responsible for 2.7 million deaths a year in...

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...

Political decision-makers in Bucharest continued in the last month of the first quarter of the current year to adopt decisions regarding the extension of some price capping measures and to dilute the provisions of Law 296/2023 and GEO 115/2023...

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...

Dialogue between environmental organizations and authorities is crucial for implementing the best measures to protect nature. WWF-Romania (World Wide Fund for Nature) has sent its recommendations to the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of...

The maximum deadline regarding the fulfillment of the owners' obligation to install heat distributors in residential buildings and apartments has been extended until December 31, 2024, following a bill approved yesterday by the Chamber of...

A Canadian recently stopped by the bank where he took out a 25-year mortgage to check his repayment status, given that interest rates have been rising rapidly lately, amid the increase in the monetary policy rate. To his surprise, next to the...

• EDUCATION-ASSET CLASS (a class for Environmental, Social and Governance ["E.S.G."] investors) 

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...

The quarantine has deepened the inequalities on the labor market and has significantly sped up the pace at which the public and private sectors need to act to ensure that millions of people keep their jobs on a market that is changing due to...

• For the first time in the last years, job creation isn't keeping up with their disappearance 

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 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...