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.
Fondul Proprietatea (hereinafter “The Fund”) published today its financial results for the first three months ended on 31 March 2022 and would like to share the following highlights: The Fund’s share price registered a strong performance in the first three months reaching a price of RON 2.11 at 31 March 2022, a record […]
Romania’s economy posted a surprising 6.5% growth rate in the first quarter, but economists predict a significant slowdown for the rest of the year, euractiv.com reads. Romania’s GDP grew 6.5% in the first quarter of 2022 compared with the same period of 2021, the statistics institute said in a flash estimate Tuesday (17 May). […]
Euroins Romania Asigurare-Reasigurare SA, the most important player in the Romanian insurance industry, announces new positive results in terms of the time required to process claims and prompt payment of claims in which are not recorded human casualties On average, in Q1 2022, Euroins paid the claims in just 5 days, 25% faster […]
Current arrears increased by RON 12 billion in the first four months of this year, the president of the National Tax Administration Agency (ANAF), Lucian Ovidiu Heius, told on Friday a press conference, mentioning that he will send inspectors to companies to find out what is going on."I noticed a phenomenon in the first four […]
Romania is in a very unusual situation. The country is having the most stable exchange rate against the EUR this year compared with CEE peers, the lowest key rate at 3.75 % while running large twin deficits. This is likely to continue all this year, according to the most recent forecast by the […]
The internal flows of the companies in the financial-banking industry may be affected by the rapid pace of the legislative novelties, the growth of the number of fiscal reports, digitization of the fiscal administrations, and the intensification of the exchange of information between the Romanian fiscal authorities and those of other countries, said the specialists […]