In 2020, the number of people killed in road traffic accidents in the EU decreased by 17% compared with 2019. Although this number decreased gradually over the last decade, the unprecedented drop in 2020 was largely due to the impact of COVID-19 restrictive measures on passenger transport. This information comes from data on road safety published by Eurostat. The article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article on road accident fatalities. The total number of people who died in road accidents in the EU was 18 786 in 2020, of which 44% were passenger car occupants, 19% pedestrians, 16% on motorcycles, 10% on bicycles and 11% in other categories (including light and heavy goods vehicles, buses and coaches, mopeds and other vehicles). Number of road fatalities relative to the population lowest in Sweden, highest in Romania Compared with the population of each Member State, the lowest rates of road fatalities in 2020 were observed in Sweden (20 road traffic victims per million inhabitants), Malta (23), Denmark (27) and Spain (29), ahead of Ireland and the Netherlands (both 30). In contrast, the highest rates were recorded in Romania (85 road traffic victims per million inhabitants), followed by Latvia (73), Bulgaria (67) and Poland (66). In 2020, there were 42 road traffic victims per million inhabitants in the EU as a whole.
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 […]