Over one million companies (1,056,574) have been closed down in Romania over the last thirty years, shows an analysis Termene.ro, according to which lack of business education is the main reason for which many companies fail. The lack of business education is the main reason for which many companies fail. Thus, with an annual average of 34,000 closed down companies, Romania lost most companies in 2019 (230,330), 2006 (135,875) and 2002 (109,039). The main obstacle which the entrepreneurs have when they want to increase their own business is lack of education, which is still at the top, followed by access to financing and lack of knowledgeable people. That is why, we need courses about how to manage and increase businesses professionally, without micromanagement and without sacrifices. In my opinion, 25% of the closed down companies in Romania could have survived if their founders had had access to educational resources and today we would have had 250,000 healthy companies more on the local market’ Adrian Dragomir, business innovation consultant and co-founder Termene.ro said. Termene.ro is a platform which offers real time updated information about the companies on the local market.
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 […]
