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The unemployment rate in France has risen in the third quarter of 2015, reaching its highest level since 1997, according to the National Statistics Institute (INSEE) of Paris.

Klaus Iohannis has signed the law which allows the confiscation of unguaranteed deposits (bail-in) to save distressed banks, by promulgating yesterday the law on the resolution and recover of banks and investment firms.

The heated debates around the law of giving in payment of the ban collaterals have brought to the attention of the public a number of arguments which were far too underexplained by those that used them.

"Flori de IE", together with the Romanian Cultural Institute of New York is organizing, between December 1st and December 11th a special event, ENDLESS ROMANIA, a unique exhibition of traditional Romanian outfits, which will be hosted at...

Banks, particularly small and medium sized ones, will be forced to increase their efficiency and to focus on niches, according to Cătălin Pârvu, member of the Board of Directors of the Romanian Banking Association (ARB).

When all the arguments that would justify your lack of action in an area of primordial social interest, in relation to which you are claiming absolute competence, all that is left for you is to switch to forcing the creation of...

Romania has two categories of vulnerable people: the young and the elderly.

Tempers flared on the meeting of the Board of the Bucharest Stock Exchange on Monday night, after the posting of the list of candidates for the new management, after the BSE flagged three candidates with an asterisk, and wrote next to their names...

Sixteen candidates have registered for the elections for the Board of Directors of the BSE, scheduled to take place on December 14th, with a number of 1.77 applicants per seat, after the Financial Oversight Authority (ASF) has maintained the...

Only two months have passed since the decision of the ministers of foreign affairs of the EU member states concerning the system for the allocation of the refugee quotas, but despite the fact that so little time has passed, the whole world seems...

All of the readers of the "BURSA" newspaper deserve the award of honorary member of the editorial office, for their steadfastness and appreciation shown in supporting us over the last 25 years.

The world is in crisis, and the concern over exiting the "labyrinth" is a major and justified one.

MAKE, the president of the "BURSA" press group, launched the book "The solution to the crisis / Terminus a quo", at the Gaudeamus International Fair yesterday. The book represents a collaboration between "BURSA" and the...

In their opinion, several measures taken by the Ponta Government will need to be reformulated or cancelled to maintain the budget balance, which will create hostility among the citizens which would have benefited from them.

Ludwik Sobolewski, the CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, sent the following message on the 25 year anniversary of the BURSA newspaper:

Almost half of the ministers proposed yesterday by designated prime-minister Dacian Cioloş for the new government have either worked in European institutions, or in multinationals, which would not be a bad thing, if they haven't forgotten...

Russia will counter NATO's defense program by developing new attack weapons, capable of penetrating that shield, according to statements made by Russian president Vladimir Putin.

The European Central Bank (BCE) should scale back or end its quantitative easing program earlier than it has planned, because the governments can not offset on their own the effects of the monetary policy of the institution, according to the...

The successor of Traian Băsescu in the presidential seat has nominated Dacian Cioloş, as the former president had repeatedly announced over the last few days.

The Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development (OCDE) has worsened its estimates concerning the growth of the world's economy, for the second time in the last three months, as the slowdown of the emerging markets is affecting other...

Bank borrowers have asked for the resignation of Mugur Isărescu governor of the NBR, protesting against corruption.

Liviu Voinea, deputy governor and member of the Board of Directors of the NBR has been nominated by the PSD for the position of prime-minister.

In September, Germany's industrial output has seen the biggest drop of the last 12 months, an evolution which suggests that the advance of the biggest European economy has slowed down in Q3 2015, amid the weaker demand from China and other...

The brief press conference whereby Victor Ponta had announced "deposing his mandate" (he had not yet sent his formal resignation to the president by the end of the afternoon) focused on the idea of taking political responsibility.

Prime-minister Victor Ponta has resigned yesterday and has also deposed the Government's mandate, following the Tuesday night protests by over 25,000 people.

Hated though it may be, war remains the only way to achieve progress abruptly known throughout history. war consumes resources quickly and forces society to come up with more of them, to use its brainpower and workforce and to build.

Poland's and Romania's presidents are currently presiding a reunion of the CEE leaders.

Gazprom Export, the subsidiary of Russian energy group Gazprom, has announced yesterday that by the end of this year will hold an auction for the supply of natural gas to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 2016, Itar Tass reports.

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...

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has only given the European Union (EU) gas pipelines on paper, without the likelihood of a route that would be successful in the medium term, even though the member states have embraced the project of the European...

The position of CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange doesn't seem to satisfy Ludwik Sobolewski anymore, who has begun browsing job boards, looking for jobs available in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

The management system of the BSE- single-tier or two-tier - is less important, and what matters more is for the Exchange to have a strategy, based on the steps that are made public, which the market can track, and which can lead to its promotion...

Romania will be forced to pay penalties for every day of delay until it fully transposes the legislation on Bank Recovery and Resolution Law (BRRD), which also involves the application of the bail-in (a procedure which involves the confiscation...

The European Commission yesterday proposed measures to improve the way the Eurozone manages its economy in the short term, as part of a wide scale plan to integrate the Monetary Union, and to avoid a future crisis, respectively.

The European Central Bank (ECB) could extend and change its quantitative easing program, meant to stimulate economic growth and the inflation in the Eurozone, according to the governor of the Bank of Spain, Luis Maria Linde.

Sergiu Manea, who has, since October 1st the position of CEO of the Romanian Commercial Bank (BCR), does not have to file documentation with the National Bank of Romania (NBR) to get the approval of the central bank, said Nicolae Cinteză, the...

Forza Rossa, the official representative of Ferrari in Romania, yesterday launched, for the first time in Romania, the latest model of the Maranello carmaker, 488 GTB, an event which was held at the Parliament's palace.

The European Central Bank (ECB) must keep calm and show that it is keeping inflation under control, but perhaps the governments should relax the fiscal policies, says Ewald Nowotny, an executive of the institution.

The idea of the liquidation of the BSE, an opinion which was last month attributed by a financial publication to Oana Petrescu, coordinating partner of the management consulting division of Deloitte România, was presented on Friday, in a show on...

Radu Hanga, of the Board of Directors of SIF Moldova, is the new president of the Association of Fund Managers (AAF), following last Saturday's elections, according to some market sources.