Next year will see the nearly 20 billion-euro record loan taken out by Romania from foreign financers mature, and the National Bank and the Finance Ministry are set to start repaying loan instalments, with one of the issues discussed being whether the Government will have to sell some of its assets in order to repay the money. read more...

The issue of special pensions, intensely debated in the past few days, brings into the spotlight a dramatic fact for a country like Romania: a quarter of Romanians aged between 45 and 65 are not working. Consolidated data reveal an even more dramatic situation: 40% of people aged between 45 and 65 are unemployed. read more...