Approximately 73% of Romanians claim that they will not go on vacation at all this winter, and of those who will, almost 11.5% will spend their winter vacation in Romania, in the mountains, 7.5% will spend it with relatives/in the country, over 6% on the Romanian seacoast and only 2.6% will spend it abroad, according to a survey carried out by CEC Bank in partnership with FinZoom.ro.Among those who will spend their holidays abroad, about 22% say they will go to Turkey, almost 16% chose Spain, 12.5% - Greece, 10% each will spend their holidays in Bulgaria and Italy and over 6% in Egypt. Other holiday destinations include Norway, the UK and Brazil.When it comes to the budget allocated this year for the winter vacation, approximately 80% of the respondents mentioned that they will allocate less than RON 1,000, over 11% answered between RON 1,000 - 2,000, 6.5% will allocate between RON 2,000 - 4,000, and almost 4% intend to spend over RON 4,000.Regarding the means of transport that Romanians use to go on vacation, the personal car is the first choice. More than half of those who will go on vacation will go by car, about 23% chose to travel by train, over 15% by bus and approximately 8% by plane.The survey was conducted online by the FinZoom financial comparator, at the request of CEC Bank, on a sample of about 1,200 respondents from all over the country, representative of Internet users. 53% of the respondents are employees, 75% live in the city and over 27% have higher education.
Participation in cultural education activities continues to be limited, with the main barriers being difficult access, insufficient knowledge, and cost, the recently released Cultural Consumption Barometer 2024 shows. The report showed that many Romanians still associate culture with entertainment rather than with personal development or furthering their knowledge. The need for relaxation dominates in cultural […]
Roughly 84% of Romanians say that the pace of the state’s digitalization is slow or very slow, according to an Edge Institute & AtlasIntel study presented at the Digital Governance Summit 2025, which took place on Tuesday, November 25, at the presidential palace in Bucharest. The survey aims to capture the way citizens relate to […]
Romania’s Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) issued a negative opinion on the new bill regarding magistrates’ pensions. The move is only the latest development concerning a heated issue that led to tensions between the executive and the judiciary branch. CSM’s opinion is consultative, and the government led by Ilie Bolojan can still take responsibility for […]
Romania took the presidency of the Central European Initiative (or CEI) on Wednesday, November 26, according to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE). The organization is a regional intergovernmental forum established in 1989, following the fall of the Berlin Wall. It gathers 17 Member States in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe […]
Trade between Romania and Poland continues to grow, with annual bilateral exchanges in goods now valued at more than EUR 12 billion, according to figures presented by the Polish-Romanian Bilateral Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PRBCC). The data was released during a reception in Bucharest marking Poland’s Independence Day and Romania’s National Day. Polish investments […]
As Romania moves closer to implementing the EU Pay Transparency Directive, local employers are preparing for one of the most consequential shifts in workplace regulation in over a decade. The directive, set for transposition by June 2026, introduces strict new rules on salary disclosure, pay reporting, and equal-pay verification, aiming to close persistent gender gaps […]
