As many as 2,308 companies with foreign capital have been established during the first four months of 2024, going up by 0.9% when comparing to the similar period of 2023, according to the centralized data from the National Trade Registry Office (ONRC).The 2,308 new companies had a total subscribed capital of more than USD 12.4 million, an increase of 46.4% compared to the subscribed capital of companies registered in January - April 2023, of USD 8.47 million.In April 2024, 633 companies with foreign participation were registered (+32.7% compared to the same month in 2023), with a subscribed capital of 2.17 million RON (+37.8%). Depending on the fields of activity, the most registrations were registered in wholesale and retail trade, car and motorcycle repair (35.23% of the total), professional, administrative, scientific and technical activities (17.06% of the total) and transport, storage and communications (15.32%).At the end of April 2024, there were 253,534 companies with foreign participation in the share capital in Romania. The value of the subscribed capital was over USD 70.58 billion.The largest number of companies with foreign participation was with investors from Italy, respectively 53,077 (subscribed capital of approximately USD 3.37 billion), but the highest value of the share capital belongs to Dutch companies, respectively USD 13.063 billion, in 6,146 of companies.
The 16th edition of Les Films de Cannes, the festival showcasing productions awarded or selected at the Cannes film festival, returns this fall to Bucharest and four other cities in the country. The winner of this year's Palme d'Or, Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident, will be screened at the event, as will be […]
Răsvan Angheluţă Natural Sciences Museum in Galaţi is scheduled to reopen on September 20, after the completion of modernization works worth over 15.1 million lei (approximately EUR 3 million) carried out by the County Council through the recovery and resilience facility PNRR. The building hosts an Aquarium, an Astronomical Observatory, a Planetarium, and temporary exhibitions. […]
A team of Romanian paramedics won first place at the World Rescue Challenge 2025, a competition that sees first responders and trauma teams from around the world develop new skills and share knowledge. This year, the competition took place in Karlovac, Croatia, and was attended by two Romanian paramedics from Bucharest who have been working […]
Artmark, one of Romania’s leading auction houses, registered record sales of over EUR 15 million despite economic instability, showing the growth potential of the national art market, according to the company’s 2024-2025 market report. Overall, auction sales totaled EUR 11 million, up 8.2% compared to the previous year, while sales through the “Dependent de Artă” […]
Cybersecurity has become a major global priority, impacting individual users, companies, organizations, and public institutions. Social engineering, deepfakes, digital manipulation, and coordinated geopolitical attacks are fundamentally reshaping how we view the digital future. In this context, DefCamp, the largest cybersecurity and hacking conference in Central and Eastern Europe, reaffirms its role as a strategic hub […]
Romanian airline AnimaWings has received its fifth Airbus aircraft, an A220-300, as part of an ambitious expansion plan to build a fleet of 18 planes by the end of 2027, valued at over USD 1 billion. The A220-300 is the airline’s third of this type and will serve both domestic and international routes. Configured with […]
