17 feb 2014

Agriculture generated almost half of Romania’s surprising economic growth of last year, 3.5%, after the gross value added in the farming sector increased by 23% year-on-year, according to Eurostat. more

11 feb 2014

Goldman Sachs, the most influential US investment bank, is paying more attention to Romania and has assigned an analyst to review its economy based on macroeconomic indicators for the first time in more

3 feb 2014

Banks will stand to gain an additional EUR80 million to EUR100 million in fees from people buying homes or from retailers of furniture, cars and other items that cost more than 10,000 lei (about more

16 ian 2014

US and UK investors bought 82% of the $1 billion bonds maturing in 30 years that Romania issued on Tuesday. Its dollar-denominated bonds also attracted German, Austrian and Romanian investors. more

15 ian 2014

The dollar-denominated bond issue maturing in 30 years that Romania launched on Tuesday is a first for the country, which had been previously unable to borrow for such a long term due to the high more

10 dec 2013

The Romanian Government has extended until June 2013 the validity of two government decisions, allowing private-sector companies to access state aid worth almost EUR440 million. more

9 dec 2013

Bankers have been demoted from among the top earners in the Romanian economy in 2012, after they had dominated the ranking of salary earnings during the years of economic growth. more

3 dec 2013

Romania expects VAT collection to rise by just 3.4% in 2014, up to RON54.6 billion, while total budget revenues are expected to go up by nearly 5% to RON216.8 billion. These forecasts, included in the more

21 nov 2013

Romania will most likely adopt the euro in 2021, with the timeframe for joining the euro zone moving further into the future as living standards and work productivity gaps need to be bridged. Analysts more

18 nov 2013

Romania’s Finance Ministry anticipates that banks and companies, as well as individuals, will earn higher income in the years to come and will contribute more to the budget than the amounts expected more

15 nov 2013

Romania’s 4.1% economic growth in the third quarter has taken everybody by surprise, including analysts and businesspeople. more

13 nov 2013

Romanian Minister for Budget Liviu Voinea says 127 major investment projects worth a total of 148 billion lei (EUR33.2 million) will to be included in the state budget for 2014, which will be more

6 nov 2013

Analysts say the new taxes to be levied as of 2014 will indirectly also affect the population, leaving less money in Romanians’ pockets for consumption. more

5 nov 2013

The Romanian state collected only 15.7 million lei from banks in the first nine months of this year as earnings tax (tax on profit), 18 times less than in the similar period of 2012, and central bank more

30 oct 2013

The problem of tax evasion is systemic and has been perpetuated over time, affecting budget revenue collection. It has also affected honest companies, which have to compete against many players who more

24 oct 2013

Businesspeople in Romania have started to draft next year’s budgets for their companies, but they cannot use the country’s 2014 draft budget as reference point because the latter will be finalized more

23 oct 2013

Romania's 2012 budget deficit was barely kept within the target of 3% of the gross domestic product agreed upon the international financial partners, under the European System of Accounts (ESA 95) more

16 oct 2013

The Netherlands, Austria and Germany fetched around half the total volume of foreign direct investments in the past five years, remaining in the top three every year, according to data from central more

3 oct 2013

Romania’s real GDP will return to the pre-crisis level in 2014, after six years and after borrowing EUR20 billion from international lenders. The country’s the public debt has doubled in the more

2 oct 2013

The three- and six-month ROBOR rates, the indicators of the money market used as a reference when setting prices for leu loan contracts, have plunged to all time lows of less than 4% this year. This more

24 sep 2013

Overdue debts of private companies and state-owned companies in Romania increased between 2008 and 2012, reaching around 20% of the country’s gross domestic product (nearly RON120 billion). more

19 sep 2013

Romania’s domestic and external public debt sped up during the five years since the crisis began, and has now more than doubled compared with the end of 2008, to over 250 billion lei (EUR56 more

17 sep 2013

Slowness and fear of taking decisions are among the main reasons why Romania lacks foreign investments, believes Mihai Bogza, president of the Foreign Investors Council (CIS) and chairman of more

9 sep 2013

The lack of transparency, efficiency and responsibility of the public local administrations can be a major risk for Romania’s economy and more transparency could be the way to avoid potential more

5 sep 2013

Romania’s economic growth would have been 3% in the first half of the year if investments had at least been flat. more