18 apr 2014

Having just returned from a trip to Washington where he met with the officials of the S&P and Moody’s ratings agencies, Budget Minister Liviu Voinea says chances are Romania will get a rating more

11 apr 2014

The good news from most macroeconomic indicators in the first two months of the year is making analysts change their full-year gross domestic product growth forecast towards 3% to 3.5%. more

10 apr 2014

The Finance Ministry reaffirmed in the public debt management strategy its intention to consider the opportunity of issuing “specific securities for the population”. The objective was also more

8 apr 2014

The Romanian state is set to cover part of salary expenses for around 1,500 companies that should create a total of 30,000 new jobs within a seven-year period, with the budget of the new state aid more

4 apr 2014

Romania needs to stimulate its economic growth to reach rates of 5% to 6% a year in order to converge with the living standards of the European Union. It also needs to continue structural reforms in more

1 apr 2014

Romania’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on April 2 ten years ago turned out to be very important for the Eastern European country's economy, not only for its security. more

24 mar 2014

The Romanian Government continued to borrow cheaper in the first quarter of 2014, with state paper yields hitting a fresh all-time low during this period. more

24 mar 2014

The market is flush with cash and its price has never been so low. Thus, the Romanian market is not having a cash issue now, but it’s coping with a loan demand shortage. On the other hand, bonds more

12 mar 2014

The taxation system is one of the essential factors analyzed when companies decide to do business and invest in a country and if the VAT is 24% and investors pay 24% more because of this tax, then VAT more

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