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Yesterday, the prosecutors searched 49 "Omniasig" branches, on suspicions that the CEO and over other 40 executives forged over 1 million insurance policies, just one day after Peter Hagen, the head of Vienna Insurance Group (VIG), which...

The 12 F16 Block 15 aircraft recently acquired by the Romanian Air Forces, will be used for the air police, as well as for fighting enemy actions, according to sources in the Romanian army.

In preparing government strategy for supporting SMEs and improving the business environment 2020 has uncovered two major problems: there is a very small number of active small enterprises, a very small number of medium enterprises and too few of...

The outcome of a business comes from the mark of the entrepreneur, says Cristina Chiriac, the chairwoman of the National Association of Entrepreneurs.

Athlete Monica Iagăr, professional athlete, considers that business, just like sports, should only be done as long as being involved in business offers happiness, even if though there may be some difficult moments.

Almost half of the domestic companies are led by women (43% in 2012), said Andreea Paul, the vice-president of the Budget, Finance and Banks Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.

The National Salt Company - Salrom SA last year achieved a profit of 38.7 million lei, up 86% over 2012, said Alina Floroian, marketing economist with the company.

The current law of unemployment must be amended, to stop the discrimination against entrepreneurs and businesspeople that remain jobless, said Gabriella Bisi, the chairwoman of the "She Business" business club.

Anca Vlad, the CEO of Catena Grup, is an ardent supporter of entrepreneurial spirit and thinks that you can't have a successful business without taking risks.

Entrepreneurship has no gender, says Sorana Mantho, Head of Corporate Affairs at Philip Morris Romania and Bulgaria, who thinks that the recipe of success in business is that of "common sense, which any professional applies in his...

Romania must encourage entrepreneurial spirit more, through greater transparency and through a more stable fiscal environment, Ravi Buck, economic officer of the US Embassy told BURSA.

A woman should have a mentor when setting herself off in business, according to Mrs. Corina Vinţan, CEO Links Associates, who thinks that female entrepreneurs should start businesses that would contribute to overall growth.

Female entrepreneurs can't rely on politicians, said Smaranda Vornicu, Managing Partner Blues Line Salons: "We need to help ourselves so we can one day break through that glass ceiling and reach the world of big business".

Any thing that is done well will show results, says Adriana Tănăsoiu, the CEO of the Central Depository.

There are some banks on the Romanian market that blackmail their customers into not working with certain law firms, according to lawyer and professor Gheorghe Piperea Law PhD.

The Romanian Generic Drug Manufacturers Association (APMGR) asks for more transparency in the calculation process of the clawback tax, by the reporting of the number of discounted units by the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAS), in the...

The stock market community has been keeping silent even though two months ago, a draft for amending the legislation has been forwarded to the prime-minister, originating, at least officially, from Ludwik Sobolewski, Florin Pogonaru and Steven van...

The scenario of a conflict in Ukraine has become increasingly likely, as the forces involved in this conflict - the Ukrainian army, Russia, the US - are ready to intervene. Already, the violent fights in the region have caused victims.

Last week, the prosecutors of the DIICOT have announced that they have conducted an operation for dismantling a criminal faction specializing in the manipulation of the stock market.

Our country will have to ensure for itself 45% or the power demand from nuclear sources by 2050, compared to18-20% as it is for the moment, states the senator Şerban Valeca, who is also the president of the scientific council of the Piteşti...

Oradea prosecutor Alexandru Lele is the one who, in April 2001, ordered the arrest of Adrian Tărău, the son of an influential sponsor of the PSD who was also the prefect of the county, under the charge of complicity in the oil products smuggling....

The AstraZeneca Board of Directors rejected on friday the improved offer for taking over the British company by the American group Pfizer, that evaluated AstraZeneca at 63.1 billion pounds (106.5 billion dollars), considering the proposal terms...

Tudor Ciurezu, the CEO of SIF Oltenia, seems to have won the first battle in the conflict with businessman Florin Pogonaru, at least according to the way some investors are viewing the outcomes of yesterday's General Shareholder Meeting,...

The shareholders of SIF Oltenia are meeting today in the General Shareholder Meeting to approve the balance sheet, on the second convening, which could provide a picture of the strength of the factions within the company, wherein the conflict...

Accustomed as he was to the reverence that he was received with in the beginning, Ludwik Sobolewski, the CEO of the BSE, must have had a shock on Friday, at the General Shareholder Meeting, when the market community, which he remembered to be...

Reporter: Please give us more details about the international event that World Trade Center Bucharest will be hosting in the coming days.

The admirable restraint shown by market participants for more than eight months now has been broken by the president of the Association of Brokers, Dan Paul, who just couldn't take it anymore after the aberration proposed by the CEO of the...

According to the Delegate Minister for Energy, the tense situation in Ukraine is no major problem, because Romania is ready to deal with any situation. He told us in an interview that the country has enough domestically produced gas to meet...

Gabriel Dumitraşcu, the head of the Privatization Office of the Department for Energy, told us that he is more cautiously optimistic when it comes to the success of the IPOs scheduled to take place this year, in the current geopolitical and...

After the Bucharest Stock Exchange proposed the "in-house" development of a technical solution for joining "Target2-Securities" (ed. note: the single European service for cross border settlement), as they consider the investment...

Reporter: What do you view Romania like, from a political and economic point of view, when you come back?

The draft of the Law of Insolvency is at the center of a new political scandal, as it was voted yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies, despite the fact that the PNL and the PDL voted against it.

Reporter: Why did you choose to make an "analysis" of the Romanian political scene?

The Bucharest Stock Exchange may miss out on the IPO of Romtelecom, even though the hopes of the telecom operator being listed on the BSE have been fueled for years.

This week, the Government passed a bill by which CR 104 Sercaia - Hoghiz, known as the "Road of Shame", was classified from country road as national road, after the county authorities took the necessary steps for this purpose.

Ludwik Sobolewski, the CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, wrote to Mircea Ursache, the vice-president of the ASF in charge of the capital market, an official letter in which he claims that the CEO and the president of the BSE (the two managers...

The AD is no longer 1686, but 2014. Unlike Sobieski, Sobolewski is no longer angry at Romanian ruler Dimitrie Cantemir, quite the contrary, he often delights in the musical art of the great European, Kantemiroglu, "Kitabu...

Dear Mr. Ludwik Sobolewski,

I've already told you that I think of myself as a chump, because I am easily fooled and I take the Bucharest Stock Exchange seriously and I can't imagine that Ludwik Sobolewski, its Polish CEO, has decided to start making fun of me...

Mircea Ursache, the vice-president of the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF), disagrees with the opinion of the officials of the BSE and considers that the CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) is part of the staff of the company.