EximBank and the Agency for Rural Investment Financing (AFIR) signed a collaboration accord to support – by financing eligible companies- the acceleration of the absorption of European funds allocated through the Rural Development National Program (PNDR) over 2021-2022. “We are offering an extensive range of products adapted to the specific and demands of PNDR program, so that eligible end users can access: grant pre - financing credits, credits for co-financing contributions to eligible and not eligible expenses or bank warranty letters to return down payment, “said Traian Halalai, executive president of EximBank, in a press release. In his turn, Mihai Moraru, the general director of AFIR, says this collaboration accord will concretely support PNDR beneficiaries to obtain advantageous credits. EximBank is a specialized institution which is actively involved in supporting and promoting the Romanian business environment. Its financial instruments are devoted exclusively to the corporate segment and can be accessed in advantageous conditions by any type of commercial company, either IMM or a large company, carried out international transactions, or addresses, or addresses the domestic market. AFIR is meant to technically implement the technical and financial PNDR 2020. Until the present, 67828 farms,processors, entrepreneurs and public authorities that concluded financing contracts with AFIR to receive European grants through PNDR 2020. The value of payments made by AFIR, until the present day, to beneficiaries of the program amounts to 7.65 billion euros, which represents a degree of effective absorption of allocated funds of 81.24%. For the transition period of 2021-2022, AFIR has at its disposal funds for agriculture and rural development of 3.28 billion euros.
One year after the Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) annulled the presidential elections and decided a complete rerun, amid a flawed electoral process backed by evidence in a declassified report sent by intelligence services to the state defence council CSAT, president Nicusor Dan announced a detailed report on the developments would be released...
Electrocentrale București, one of the 17 state enterprises shortlisted by the government for restructuring, has launched the tender for a new gas-fired cogeneration power plant in Bucharest South, a project worth over RON 2.1 billion (EUR 400 million). Interested companies can submit bids until February 5, according to
Critical Metals Corp (Nasdaq: CRML), an American company specialising in critical minerals, and Romanian nuclear group Nuclearelectrica (BVB: SNN) announced on December 9 the signing of an agreement for the development, in Romania at Feldioara, of an industrial rare earth processing facility. The planned facilities at Feldioara, where Nuclearelectrica operates its subsidiary Uranium Concentrate Processing […]
One United Properties (BVB: ONE), the Bucharest Exchange-listed developer of residential, mixed-use, and office real estate in Romania, announced the signing of a preliminary sale and purchase agreement for a 34,800 sqm plot of land in “the most desirable residential area of Constanța, on the Black Sea coast.” The land is located in the northern […]
Al Dahra Holding will exit Romania’s grain trading market in 2026, withdrawing from a sector with annual exports valued at about EUR 4 billion, Bloomberg reported on December 9, as cited by Ziarul Financiar. The company’s decision follows sustained pressure on international traders operating in the increasingly...
DN Agrar Group (BVB: DN), one of the leading integrated agrifood companies in Romania and the largest dairy milk producer in Europe, announced the financing plan for the development of a skimmed milk and cream processing facility, a strategic project supporting the group’s growth objectives for the 2025 - 2030 period. “According to the 2025 […]
