08.28.2012

Romanian companies expect retail activity will see a modest growth in August through October, with both production and demand estimated to pick up from the previous three months, the statistics more

07.30.2012

Romanian companies expect retail activity will pick up in July through September after posting a moderate growth in the previous three months, the statistics institute INS said in a survey Monday. more

06.28.2012

Romanian companies estimate activity in construction and retail sectors will pick up in June to August, while manufacturing and services will post only a modest growth, the statistics institute INS more

06.06.2012

Declining activity in public administration and defense sectors, alongside fewer investments in administrative services and constructions held back Romania’s economic growth in the first quarter. more

03.28.2012

Romanian executives expect growth in all economic sectors in March to May 2012, compared to the previous three months, according to a survey released Wednesday by the country’s statistics bureau more

03.09.2012

Romania's government and the central bank are working on a new set of measures aimed to increase domestic consumption, including possible salary increases in the public sector, the executive’s more

03.09.2012

Romanian Finance Minister Bogdan Dragoi Friday estimated the country’s economy has slipped back into technical recession in the first quarter, hit by bad weather. more

03.06.2012

Romanian gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 2.5% in 2011, benefiting from a very good agricultural year and steady industrial performance, the country’s statistics institute INS said more

03.03.2012

Romania will become the main economic partner of the Republic of Moldova after the completion of several privatization procedures, Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu said Saturday. more

02.10.2012

Romanian companies exported a record EUR45 billion in 2011, 20% more than the previous year. Yet shipments abroad showed signs of a slowdown in the last quarter. more

01.04.2012

Romania posted an economic growth close to 2% in 2011 and it has kept the budget deficit below the target of 4.4% of the gross domestic product, Prime Minister Emil Boc said Wednesday. more

12.28.2011

Managers expect relative stability in retail, moderate decline in industry and services and decline in construction between December and February, according to data published Wednesday by statistics more

12.12.2011

The austerity measures taken in Romania were "brutal", unthinkable in a Western country such as Germany or France, but people in the East "have learned to live with brutality", according to Andreas more

11.28.2011

Companies expect retail to see a moderate increase, industry to stabilize, and services and construction to decline between November 2011 and January 2012, the statistics institute INS said in a more

11.27.2011

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc told ProTV in an interview Sunday he will resign if the Government fails to meet economic targets for next year, adding he does not want a new term as prime minister more

11.02.2011

The more significant economic growth in the third quarter, estimated at 3%, has been noticed especially by businesspeople working in the agricultural sector, in tourism and in exports, but not on the more

10.28.2011

Romanian companies estimate economic activity will remain fairly stable in the fourth quarter of 2011 from a quarter before, with the retail sector set up to grow modestly, the statistics institute more

10.18.2011

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development cut the economic growth forecast for Romania, in 2012, by 2.7 percentage points, to 1.1%, citing the high exposure to the Greek economy. more

10.13.2011

Lower interest rates would allow the government to borrow cheaper and implicitly help the economy, but the Romanian central bank (BNR) is more preoccupied with protecting the leu rather than more

10.11.2011

Romania’s economy might crawl for a very long time, with GDP growth of 1%-3%, since its evolution greatly depends on the exterior, and capital inflows aren’t what they used to be, Tuesday said more

09.28.2011

Romanian managers expect moderate growth in industry and retail, relative stability in services and moderate decrease in construction between September and November 2011, the statistics institute INS more

09.23.2011

The persistence of the crisis for several years is not an impossible scenario and it could force the Romanian government to discuss the budget deficit level again and even try to bring it down as more

09.20.2011

Levels of economic freedom in Romania have improved over the past year, pushing the country up 37 places to 48th in a ranking released by Canadian think-tank Fraser Institute. more

09.08.2011

Romania fell 10 places to 77 in a global competitiveness ranking released by the World Economic Forum on Thursday. more

09.05.2011

Central bank governor Mugur Isarescu on Monday said that growth cannot be achieved merely by using more money, and economic growth requires stable prices. more