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16 aprilie 2025

Farmers want students in practice, but they don't know what steps to take

Three quarters of Romanian farmers say they would be willing to receive students from agricultural high schools in practical training, but the lack of staff, time and ignorance of the legal procedures for collaborating with schools keep many away from this step.

UN warns: Global water crisis passes point of no return

After decades of overexploitation, pollution and constant climate pressures, the planet has entered a new critical stage in the management of water resources: "global water bankruptcy".

Geopolitics of sports: possible boycott of the 2026 World Cup

In a tense international landscape, in which relations between the European Union and the United States are under pressure from a rarely seen diplomatic dispute, the idea of boycotting the 2026 World Cup - organized in Canada, the United States and Mexico - has entered public debate in Germany and in some European political circles.

Unknown rules, unequal chances: the reason why the Court annulled the selection of the Transelectrica Board

The decision of the Supervisory Board of Transelectrica was annulled by the Bucharest Court for the serious, systemic and irreversible violation of the principle of transparency, a defect that the court qualifies as sufficient, in itself, to abolish the entire selection procedure of the company's Board, according to the reasoning of civil sentence no. 2704 of December 23, 2025, pronounced in the case Toncescu Bogdan vs. CNTEE Transelectrica SA.

The Vice-President of the European People's Party, Siegfried Mureşan, stated: "First of all, it is very good that we are finally having a debate on the free trade agreement between the European Union and four Latin American states, a free trade agreement that will bring together over 700 million citizens, consumers. It is a free trade agreement from which the European Union would benefit. The European Union's gross domestic product will increase by up to 80 billion euros annually in the coming years, thanks to the opportunities that duty-free exports to Latin America bring."

The European Parliament has postponed the ratification of the EU-Mercosur agreement

• The agreement will be sent to the CJEU, which will verify whether its provisions are in line with the rules included in the treaties on the organization and functioning of the European Union • PSD claims its victory regarding the postponement of the ratification of this treaty by the European Parliament

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AI models outperform human candidates in Japanese university admissions

Advanced artificial intelligence models have achieved spectacular results after being tested on subjects in Japan's 2026 university entrance exam. According to Xinhua news agency, citing the financial daily Nikkei, the model developed by...

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Students accuse the Government of lack of dialogue on the Education budget

The world's oceans, a new record for warming

UBB: Over 20 million lei allocated to scholarships from its own funds

The Babeş-Bolyai University (UBB) in Cluj-Napoca announces that, in the period 2023-2025, it has allocated over 20 million lei from its own revenues for student scholarships, consolidating its position as one of the Romanian universities with the...

Photo source: facebook / Confederation of African Football

EU directs millions of euros to Confederation of African Football

CORRESPONDENCE FROM STRASBOURGEuropean farmers protest: EU agriculture sacrificed by Mercosur deal

No protest is the same, or Strasbourg is not Brussels. At least that's what can be said after more than 5,000 farmers from France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, Belgium and Romania protested in front of the European...

TikTok generation, under siege, children, captives in social networks

The effect of social networks on children is increasingly harmful. Numerous specialized studies show it, but the situation is also visible to the "naked eye". The influence of schools and parents is decreasing, while that of platforms...

CORRESPONDENCE FROM STRASBOURGSiegfried Mureşan: EPP will not vote to refer the Mercosur agreement to the CJEU

The majority of the European People's Party MEPs will not vote today on the proposal to refer the EU-Mercosur agreement for an opinion from the Court of Justice of the European Union, claims Siegfried Mureşan, vice-president of the respective...

CORRESPONDENCE FROM STRASBOURGEPP President Manfred Weber: Mercosur agreement is an Anti-Trump Deal

The EU-Mercosur agreement is an anti-Trump deal, declared Manfred Weber, President of the European People's Party, at a press briefing held this morning in Strasbourg, at the headquarters of the European Parliament.

Victor Negrescu: The Government did not consult farmers before making the decision on the agreement with Mercosur

CORRESPONDENCE FROM STRASBOURGVictor Negrescu: The Government did not consult farmers before making the decision on the agreement with Mercosur

The Government representatives were wrong not to discuss our country's position on the EU-Mercosur agreement with the representatives of farmers' associations, said yesterday Victor Negrescu, Vice President of the European Parliament, MEP...

According to Sportico estimates, $200 million comes from the salary paid by the Saudi club Al-Nassr, where Ronaldo has been playing since 2023. The remaining $60 million represents additional income generated mainly from sponsorship contracts, image rights and commercial collaborations. (Photo source: facebook / Cristiano Ronaldo)

Cristiano Ronaldo, the highest-paid athlete in the world: $260 million earned in 2025

A world hidden beneath the ice: Most detailed map of Antarctica's topography rewrites climate models

High Seas Treaty: Two-thirds of the world's oceans protected for the first time

Government on the verge of collapse

• The Constitutional Court postpones the reform of special pensions • Justice, shaken by the scandal surrounding Lia Savonea • Ciprian Ciucu, the new general mayor of the Capital • Marcel Ciolacu has found his place: president of the Buzău County Council

December in numbers

• December 2

Global Inequality in 2026: Wealth Concentrates, Society Thins Out

Data presented ahead of the World Economic Forum confirm that economic inequality has entered a phase of acceleration, not stagnation.

Global Debt and the Crisis of Trust: The Invisible Backdrop of Davos

Beyond the distribution of wealth, the global financial architecture adds an additional layer of tension

Inequality, Debt, Political Crisis: The Mechanism Blocking the World

The global political crisis is not an ideological deviation, but the result of an accumulated economic imbalance, in which the concentration of wealth and the expansion of debt have simultaneously eroded state capacity and social trust

Davos 2026 Confirms the Break: Elite Dialogue and the Economics of Fragmentation

The world is no longer divided by accident, but structurally, and Davos 2026 merely confirms this reality: the global elite discusses "dialogue” within an economic system that generates accelerating polarization, concentration of...

Harsh accusations at the top of world football

Wikipedia has signed multi-million dollar deals with tech giants

Ministry of Culture wants to acquire Eminescu-Micle correspondence

Ariane 6, strategic launch for Europe: the rocket will send the Amazon Leo satellites into orbit

Sources: India's stock market prepares to file for its own listing

Tense session in the European Parliament

Draft GEO: Prosumers will be able to share surplus electricity with other consumers

Emerging Markets Set to Drive Global Economy

• IMF: Advanced Countries Expected to Underperform Globally

Electro-Alfa announced its intention to list on the Bucharest Stock Exchange

• Company representatives claim that the listing will accelerate investments and promise an attractive dividend policy

Demeter Andras Istvan: "Culture must be lived before it is made”

Tourism of the Future: Vacation on the Moon

Students want to discuss education budget, scholarships and university funding with the prime minister

Romania's Black Sea Gas, outside NATO's shield: the real risk of Neptun Deep

Stocks and gold have delivered the strongest returns in recent years

• Private markets have generated the strongest long-term returns since 1990, but with the highest volatility • Gold has been the best-performing asset since 2020, with an annualized return of 18.4% • Bonds have struggled in recent years as higher...

The Leu, stable by force: how much does exchange rate calm cost us

The Leu-Euro Exchange Rate is No Longer "Frozen” as in 2023-2024, But Nor Does It Freely Reflect the Imbalances of the Economy.

Euro seeks global power, but advances slowly

The direction is assumed politically, but the data show that the euro is not yet approaching the status of a rival to the dollar. Recent speeches by European Central Bank officials confirm the ambition to strengthen the international role of the...

Defensive Euro: The Currency That Finances EU Security

In a context of global stress, the dollar is strengthening as a safe-haven asset, while the euro remains high not through performance, but through constraint. For those who follow the exchange rate, the stakes are no longer strictly the leu-euro...

Ministry of Health: Essential measures to protect the population during periods of extreme cold

Culture Minister Criticizes Underfunding of the Field

Humanity enters an era of record temperatures, 2025, the third hottest year in history

Draft law: double tax for buildings without authorization

• MDLPA published in decisional transparency the draft law on the adoption of measures to increase the financial capacity of administrative-territorial units, as well as for amending and supplementing certain normative acts • Among the measures...

The division of magistrates by President Nicuşor Dan, the excuse found by Liana Arsenie, head of the CAB

Top 20 billionaires in the world in 2026

• The 20 have a combined net worth of about $3.8 trillion • Elon Musk, with a net worth of $714.2 billion, is the richest person globally, according to Forbes

The Internet, the great enemy of totalitarian regimes

Blocking or restricting access to the Internet has become, in recent years, an increasingly common tool used by authorities to control the population, stifle protests or limit the flow of information in the context of armed conflicts.

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