Building developers’ plans in full swing: in the first seven months of the year almost 30,000 building permits were issued, up 33% from 2020 aug. 30 Redacția 0 comentarii
Dacia has announced that the new 7-seater model to be unveiled at IAA Munich will be called Jogger aug. 30 Tudor Ștefănescu 0 comentarii
Romania’s resident population reached 19.186 million on 1 January 2021, down 142,600 from 1 January 2020 / Demographic ageing and emigration are increasing aug. 30 Redacția 0 comentarii
Investment in digitalization: Romanian low cost airline Blue Air launches its new mobile app aug. 27 Redacția 0 comentarii
INTERVIEW Cristian Secoșan, CEO Siemens: The pandemic has accelerated the digitalization trend. Everything we thought would happen in 10-20 years has happened in two aug. 27 Elena Deacu 0 comentarii
Six out of 10 Romanian employees rely only on state money after retirement. Eight out of ten consider continuing to work (survey) aug. 26 Redacția 0 comentarii
Analysis. 55% of consumers and 100% of fleet managers want to buy electric cars. Electric vehicle sales could reach 23% of all new car sales aug. 26 Tudor Ștefănescu 0 comentarii
Chaos in the residential market. Asking prices and rents go down or up from month to month, depending on the situation in the country aug. 26 Tudor Ștefănescu 0 comentarii
Electricity prices could fall: Romania and Bulgaria to connect their energy exchanges from October / Romania also enters a market union with Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia aug. 26 Redacția 0 comentarii
How do we deal with owning an electric car when Romania has only about 500 charging stations aug. 26 Tudor Ștefănescu 0 comentarii
Government declares war on single-use plastic products. Ear swabs, cutlery and straws to be banned / Authorities to set up separate collection system for PETs aug. 25 Carmen Radu 0 comentarii
Government proposes state aid of almost €8 million for Tarom to cover losses in the last half of last year aug. 25 Carmen Radu 0 comentarii
Enrolment in the Virtual Private Space will be mandatory from March 2022. In addition to companies, some individuals are also affected by the obligation aug. 25 Redacția 0 comentarii
EXCLUSIVE POLL Two out of 10 Romanians would go to work or send their children to study in another EU country/ Favorite destination is the UK/ Romania’s low wages top the list of dissatisfactions aug. 25 G4Media 0 comentarii
eJobs survey: 64% of survey participants see age as a barrier to finding a job aug. 24 Redacția 0 comentarii
Worrying report. Without the reserves in the Black Sea, Romania will run out of natural gas in about 9 years aug. 24 Tudor Ștefănescu 0 comentarii
Star Residence Invest, the first REIT in Romania, net profit of 337,000 lei on revenues of 612,000 lei in the first half of the year aug. 24 Tudor Ștefănescu 0 comentarii
The Ministry of Economy announces that it is abolishing the posts of special administrators for privatisation in state-owned companies, paid up to 19,000 lei per month. Năsui: “A gimmick of the Nastase government to create well-paid sinecures for party activists” aug. 24 Carmen Radu 0 comentarii
Romanian DIY chain Brick Romania is developing an online platform to facilitate product delivery across the country aug. 24 Carmen Radu 0 comentarii
The reasons for natural gas prices rising with more than 100% for consumers aug. 24 Carmen Radu 0 comentarii
The new Minister of Finance, Dan Vîlceanu, does not know what the minimum wage in Romania is: “It can’t be 1,300” aug. 24 Carmen Radu 0 comentarii
Employees still work from home: Demand for office space is also down in 2021, by almost 10%. Vacancy rate at 7-year high / “The long-awaited turnaround will probably have to wait at least a few more quarters” aug. 23 Carmen Radu 0 comentarii
Trade registry: Number of deregistered firms increased by over 34% in the first seven months of 2021 aug. 23 Redacția 0 comentarii
A team of Romanian computer science high school students has won an international programming competition. The solution: a pollution measuring device aug. 23 Redacția 0 comentarii
The Bucharest Stock Exchange lost 3.65 billion lei in capitalization in one week aug. 23 Redacția 0 comentarii
Hoteliers in the local market want to follow Paris’ example to regulate Airbnb in Romania aug. 23 Redacția 0 comentarii
Recruitment platform: the highest paid job of the week is in IT – €5,000 a month aug. 23 Redacția 0 comentarii
The budgets of the Rabla Classic and Rabla Plus programmes will be increased by 200 million lei each aug. 20 Redacția 0 comentarii
More than 3,500 companies and PFAs became insolvent in the first seven months of the year (Registry of Commerce) aug. 20 Ionuț Ardeleanu 0 comentarii
The government paid record 8.6 billion lei in interest on public debt in the first half of the year (profit.ro) aug. 20 Ionuț Ardeleanu 0 comentarii
Economic map in the first seven months of the year: more than 65,000 companies have been established, most of them in the Bucharest-Ilfov region, construction companies rank first among the newly created companies aug. 19 Redacția 0 comentarii
Prime Minister Florin Cîțu announces that the law on vulnerable consumers could enter into force on 1 January 2022 aug. 19 Carmen Radu 0 comentarii
Prime Minister Cîțu announces that the National Development Bank project is being approved. The new state bank “will take over many of the functions” of CEC and Eximbank, the other state banks aug. 19 G4Media 0 comentarii
Dan Vilceanu validated in the National Political Bureau of the Liberal Party for the Ministry of Finance. Orban, the only vote against the proposal aug. 18 Ionuț Ardeleanu 0 comentarii
Sierra Quadrant: The economic recovery hides considerable risks. 10 months of economic trial by fire ahead aug. 18 Ionuț Ardeleanu 0 comentarii
The new Dacia Duster model has gone on sale in the authorized dealer network aug. 18 Redacția 0 comentarii
Airline industry recovers from pandemic blow. Wizz Air announces 300 pilots to be recruited by the end of the year aug. 17 Redacția 0 comentarii
Romanians are buying more and more houses for rental income. More than 3,000 new homes have been bought for investment purposes in the last three and a half years / Rents have decreased aug. 16 Carmen Radu 0 comentarii
Consumer electronics retailer Flanco expands into Hungary, online only at first aug. 16 Redacția 0 comentarii
Romania will invest 400 million euros in digitalization projects in the healthcare system, less than half what Poland invests(analysis) aug. 16 Carmen Radu 0 comentarii
Romania’s economic growth revised to 7% for 2021 (Forecast Commission) aug. 16 Ionuț Ardeleanu 0 comentarii
ANALYSIS Pandemic has pushed Romania out of the group of high-income countries aug. 13 Elena Deacu 0 comentarii
Insolvencies in Romania increased by 23% in the first half of 2021. The number of newly registered LLCs increased by 58% (Coface study) aug. 12 Carmen Radu 0 comentarii
Green startups in Romania and Bulgaria can get €300,000 in funding, mentoring and consultancy from Black Sea ClimAccelerator aug. 12 Carmen Radu 0 comentarii