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• The estimated annual damage from tobacco smuggling exceeds the 11.2 billion euros that the European Commission wants to collect annually by introducing additional taxes and levies in the next European multiannual financial framework 2028-2034  

Year after year, politicians big and small storm schools in September, make triumphant declarations, then forget about education for 12 months. In their messages sent on the occasion of the start of the new school year, President Nicuşor Dan,...

The victory of 43.8% obtained on Sunday by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, which represents less than 3% of the German electorate, cannot be transformed into a verdict for the entire country, but neither can it be...

The donations received by the Swedish MEP of Romanian origin, Alice Teodorescu Mawe, have come to the attention of the European Ombudsman (People's Advocate in the EU), who opened an investigation after the European Parliament refused to...

Oura Inc., the Finnish company that created the ring-shaped health monitoring device worn by millions of people around the world, filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) late last week for a proposed...

August found Romania in a situation that, just a few months before, state institutions would have presented as improbable: without a fully-fledged Government, with two nuclear reactors temporarily out of production due to the lowest flow of the...

• August 3 

The press has no news about factories that do not open, companies that do not expand, exports that do not grow, financing that does not close and listings that do not attract capital. It may miss some of these facts, but their repeated absence...

• According to a document issued by the European Commission, the government in Bucharest has not assumed its financial contribution for this project • In the absence of an AI gigafactory, we will be content with a simple AI factory • Basically, our...  

• Russia supported the text of the presidential reunion declaration, but not the taxes demanded by Washington 

The spectacular increase in spending on rearmament in the European Union does not guarantee that the objectives set for 2030 will be achieved, according to the report "EU Defence Policy in Focus", published yesterday by the European Court...

The Russian economy "freezes", said yesterday German Gref, the CEO of Sberbank - a Russian state-controlled bank that is targeted by Western sanctions due to the war in Ukraine -, while also calling for measures to support Russian...

After being silent for almost a month, President Nicuşor Dan felt it was time to babble. Or rather, he found the opportunities to do so. Two days ago, he participated in three events, during which he delivered three speeches.

• China ranks first in terms of production by volume, with 4.4 billion tonnes of coal • The US ranks second overall, but is the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas, respectively 

• Gadi Eisenkot, former IDF chief, stated at an event that one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's advisors was warned three hours before the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023  

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, which took place in Kyrgyzstan, did not bring the consensus desired by Vladimir Putin - the President of the Russian Federation and Aleksander Lukashenko - the President of Belarus, to transform...

• Tim Cook ends 15-year term • John Ternus - new CEO  

• Hospitality industry employers claim that they have 25,000 fewer employees compared to 2024 • According to FPIOR, the respective decrease in the number of employees caused the state budget to lose 7.5 million euros per month in payroll taxes 

• JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America vs. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley  

There are times when silence is no longer prudence, but fatigue. We have reached such a moment. You can't really talk about politics without being immediately assigned to a camp. Everyone knows everything about money, especially those who...

• Ursula von der Leyen: "euro10 trillion of household savings are kept in bank accounts; (...) Europe must now put these savings to work, for its companies" • According to the President of the European Commission, by implementing the...