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Anglo-Dutch consumer goods maker Unilever Plc is separating its ice cream division, choosing the Amsterdam stock exchange for its primary listing, a blow to British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves, who is pushing to attract IPOs to London,...

• The bonds, worth two million lei, have an annual interest of 12% and mature in 2027 

• Siegfried Mureşan: "At the moment there is no efficient way to use people's savings here in Europe" • Mircea Coşea: "There should be very important incentives to determine private capital to participate in this fund-raising that...  

US inflation accelerated in January 2025, for the fourth month in a row, reaching 3% at an annual rate, while analysts expected a slowdown, AFP reports.

A study published in the journal Nature highlights a close historical link between periods of drought and political instability in China, demonstrating that climate change played an essential role in the rise and fall of great Chinese dynasties.

The Minister of Education and Research, Daniel David, claims that functional illiteracy represents a danger for our country.

The number of hybrid attacks from the Russian Federation on our country increased in 2024, according to the activity report for last year of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) posted on the website of...

The Technical and Economic Council within the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has approved the technical and economic indicators of the project regarding the extension of Metro Line 4, announced yesterday the Secretary of State for...

MEP Claudiu Târziu, president of the National Council of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR), declared yesterday, on Digi 24, that the political party he is part of must prepare its own candidate for the presidential elections in May.

• (Interview with Georgi Georgiev, portfolio manager at Karoll Capital Management, Bulgaria) 

Ilie Bolojan, former president of the Senate, assumed his duties as interim president yesterday after the Constitutional Court took note of Klaus Iohannis' resignation on Tuesday. Before becoming interim president, Ilie Bolojan suspended...

Nearly a third of central banks have postponed plans to launch digital versions of their currencies, according to a study published this week by Reuters.

Nearly 200 countries missed the deadline to submit their new roadmaps for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the UN under the Paris Agreement.

The Minister of Education and Research, Daniel David, announced that the new high school framework plans will bring back to the school curriculum subjects essential to national culture, such as Romanian History, and will reintegrate grammar into...

Restricting the duration of temporary export for a maximum period of six months of movable cultural goods, with the possibility of extending the export only once, for a period of six months, is among the main amendments to the legislation...

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, announced yesterday, at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, the launch of InvestAI, an initiative designed to mobilize euro200 billion of public and private funds for...

Steel group ArcelorMittal, also present on the Romanian market, announced yesterday that it intends to move certain support services activities from Europe to India, according to AFP.

• Annual interest rates are between 7.95% and 6.95% for tranches in lei, and 4% and 6.25% for those in euros 

The National Directorate of Cyber Security (DNSC) is sounding the alarm about a new online fraud method, in which attackers use the visual identity of important institutions such as Interpol, Europol or the Romanian Police to deceive users.

The price of Arabica coffee futures hit a new record high on Monday in New York, as weather forecasts show dry weather in the main regions of Brazil where this agricultural raw material is grown.

Klaus Iohannis is leaving Cotroceni today. Definitively, following his resignation, after having served two full terms as president of the country, plus an almost two-month extension granted by the Constitutional Court. Iohannis is leaving...

In the context of the 2025 presidential elections, Crin Antonescu, the candidate of the PSD-PNL-UDMR coalition, returned to the forefront of Romanian politics after an absence of about a decade.

Călin Georgescu's nonsense plays a strange role in his success: "Soon, we will no longer use phones but communicate through telepathy, exactly like plants, birds, and animals do-just as life functioned in the time of Stephen the Great."

Călin Georgescu has explicitly addressed several fundamental issues of Romania in his speeches and public interventions. Below is an analysis of these issues based on the themes he consistently supports in his statements:

• 1. Corruption 

Klaus Iohannis is leaving Cotroceni Palace. He announced yesterday that he is resigning from the position of president of the country and that the resignation will take effect tomorrow, February 12.

A personalized vaccine against advanced kidney cancer has shown encouraging results in a clinical trial, with all nine patients included generating an anticancer immune response after the first dose. The research, conducted at the Dana-Farber...

A rare first-edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," the first volume of J.K. Rowling's famous series, has been sold at auction in the UK for £18,000. It is not the highest price ever paid for a book...

The Federation of Free Trade Unions in Education (FSLI) has announced the launch of a national consultation caravan on the new framework plans for high school.

The boycott of hypermarkets in our country between February 10-16, an action to which Romanian citizens were called by Călin Georgescu and the sovereignist parties, in order to protect Romanian farmers, proved to be a failure from the very first...

• January 1 

The year 2024 was marked by economic-financial and socio-political convulsions, which accentuated Romania's vulnerabilities in the face of domestic and international challenges.

The "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iaşi announced that, starting with the 2025-2026 academic year, it will train future medical officers and sanitary non-commissioned officers, as a result of a partnership signed...

The municipality of Amsterdam has announced an ambitious measure to combat pollution: banning pleasure boats on its famous tourist canals in the city center.

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) approved, during a working session held under the presidency of Patriarch Daniel, a series of measures regarding the observance of canonical and statutory discipline among the clergy. Among...

German drugmaker Stada Arzneimittel AG is preparing for what could be Europe's largest initial public offering (IPO) this year, Bloomberg reports.

• The Ministry of Finance raised 16.4 billion lei from the population through six Fidelis government bond issues 

The European Council will take a decision in June on the financing of military mobility programmes for the current budgetary framework and, following the decision, the European Parliament will approve either an adjustment to the current budget or...

• Price crosses $4/pound for first time 

January 2025 was declared the warmest January ever measured globally, according to data published by the European observatory Copernicus.

The Minister of Culture has started negotiations with trade unionists. The inventory of movable heritage and the elimination of wage inequalities are among the topics discussed by the Minister of Culture, Natalia Intotero, with representatives of...

The presence of Asian workers on construction sites, in traffic on scooters and bicycles, in restaurant kitchens and in many other places has become a habit.

• The fund aims to secure financing of up to 200 million lei for investments 

The government established in yesterday's meeting that the minimum gross basic wage in the country, guaranteed in payment, will be updated annually depending on the inflation rate and labor productivity. This measure aims to align 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,...