The state budget for next year is built on an economic growth of 3.4pct, an average annual inflation of 6pct and a deficit of 5pct of GDP, according to the Fiscal - Budgetary Strategy 2024 - 2026 published on Wednesday."Internal demand will be the main element through the investment component represented by the gross formation of fixed capital (+6.5pct), the effect of the development of some important public and private investment projects, simultaneously with an increase in final consumption, slightly below that of the product gross domestic product, respectively 3.3pct. On the supply side, construction will continue to be the most dynamic sector with an increase in VAB (Vertical Assembly Building) of 7.1pct, based mainly on the attraction and efficient use of European funds. The tertiary sector will have in turn, a positive contribution to the economic advance with an increase of 3.5pct. For the industry, a modest increase of the gross added value was foreseen, respectively of 1.2pct, in the conditions of maintaining an uncertain geopolitical context," the document states.The Gross Domestic Product is estimated at 1,733 billion RON at current prices, and the budget deficit at 5pct of GDP, under the conditions of revenues of over 586 billion RON and expenses of 673 billion RON. The share of total expenses in GDP is estimated at 38.8pct, and that of revenues at 33.8pct of GDP.The total number of unemployed is estimated at 215,000 people and the average net salary at 4,733 RON.
Romanian prosecutors conducted searches on Friday, November 7, at the headquarters of the steel mill Liberty Galați and in several counties, in a case of embezzlement and tax evasion that includes Russian gas giant Gazprom, Economedia.ro reported. Specifically,...
Romania has begun testing the US-supplied Merops anti-drone system as part of wider NATO efforts to strengthen air defenses on the alliance’s eastern flank, defense minister Ionuț Moșteanu told local news channel Digi24. The system, already used in...
The Ministry of Development proposed to the government to analyse the opportunity to develop an investment program dedicated to the economic recovery of small towns with a population of under 25,000 in non-metropolitan areas. The financial support for the development of these towns has been so far fragmented, and competition with large cities for funds proved […]
Prime minister Ilie Bolojan said on November 6 that he hopes that the ruling coalition will manage to legislate by the end of this month the rest of the second package of budgetary measures, namely the public administration streamlining law and the law on magistrates' pensions. Unless the law on the public administration is legislated, […]
Japanese group Makita announced that it will reduce production of power tools in China for the US market due to the unpredictability of US tariffs and move this production to factories in Romania and Thailand, according to Nikkei Asia, as reported by Economica.net. The Japanese group reported business of almost EUR 640 million locally...
The Competition Council has outlined a series of concerns related to the transaction through which the Schwarz group, which operates the Kaufland and Lidl store chains in Romania, intends to take over the La Cocoș stores, according to a press release quoted by
