In its Regional Economic Prospects report of May 2022 released on Tuesday, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) says that after a rebound of 5.9% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in 2021, the rate of the Romanian economy's growth will slow down significantly in 2022.Romania's economy is projected to grow by 2.5% this year, as against 2.8% forecast in March 2022, and 3% next year, as against an initial forecast of 4.1%.According to the EBRD, the Romanian economy entered 2022 on a weak footing as GDP declined in the last quarter of 2021 by 0.1% quarter-on-quarter due to a fall in investment and slowing inventory build-up."Accelerating inflation from the second half of 2021 has already put pressure on consumers and firms. While real net wages have temporarily recovered in early 2022 and the removal of Covid-19 restrictions has improved confidence, the war on Ukraine has brought an additional layer of inflationary and supply chain difficulties," according to the EBRD report.Consumer prices increased by 10.2 per cent, year-on-year, in March 2022, despite a cap on energy prices, which is set to remain until March 2023. The government has adopted a range of measures to support vulnerable households and firms affected by the war. As such, the fiscal consolidation envisaged for this year could be constrained by these expenses and by weaker economic growth, warns the international financial institution.The National Bank of Romania (BNR) has raised the policy rate to 3% by April 2022 and, facing a tightening of liquidity since the start of the war, has intervened in the secondary market for sovereign debt to calm debt markets.GDP is projected to grow by 2.5% this year, with risks tilted to the downside and contingent on the evolution of the war and other supply pressures. In 2023, lingering inflation pressures, fading pent-up demand and supply chain issues are expected to restrain growth to a forecast 3%, the EBRD report says.
ARTEX AG, a Liechtenstein-based company and sole shareholder of ARTEX MTF, a Lichtenstein-based regulated multilateral trading venue, has appointed Claudio Cisullo, Founder and Executive Chairman of the Swiss-based family office CC Trust Group AG, as non-executive Director, effective April 3rd, 2024. ARTEX AG was co-founded by H.S.H. Prince Wenceslas von Liechtenstein and Yassir Benjelloun-Touimi in […]
Prince Paul Phillippe of Romania, one of the country's notorious fugitives, was captured in Malta at a resort where he was on vacation. Paul of Romania has been on the run for nearly four years from the country, where he was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison in the case regarding the […]
Hobița, the village of famous Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, is at the center of a new temporary exhibition at Art Safari in Bucharest, which opens on Wednesday, May 1, and will be on display until May 19. Art Safari also offers a family program during the Labor Day & Orthodox Easter mini-holiday, open daily from 12:00 […]
The first section of the Transapuseana, a road that crosses Romania's Apuseni Mountains, was recently inaugurated. The section consists of 43 kilometers of county road. The road (DJ 107I), initially known as the 'Transalpina of the Apuseni,' was later renamed Transapuseana. It is the largest investment on a county road in Romania, with a total […]
According to a report from Romania’s National Institute of Statistics, during the period 2020-2022, the proportion of Romanian companies that introduced new or improved products or business processes into the market was 8.8%, a decrease of 1.9% compared to 2018-2020. Business innovation refers to the wide range of activities that enterprises...
SD Worx, a leading European HR and payroll solutions provider, said that it completed the acquisition of Romanian Software SRL, the market leader in Romania for payroll and Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions. Romania thus becomes the 18th European country in which SD Worx has its own proprietary payroll & HR software. SD Worx announced […]
