Business dissolutions over January - September 2021 were 15.31 pct up from the year-ago period, standing at 22,100 compared to 19,165 in 2020, shows data centralized by the National Trade Register Office (ONRC).Bucharest tops the list with most company dissolutions - 4,012 (up 11.17 pct), followed by the counties of Constanta - 1,099 (+16.79 pct), Timis - 989 (-2.66 pct) and Iasi - 972 (+39.06 pct). The counties with the least number of dissolutions are Covasna - with 128 (+3.23 pct), Mehedinti - 132 (+8.20 pct) and Vaslui - 147 (+12.21).The activity sectors with most company dissolutions in the reporting period were wholesale & retail trade, and the repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, with 6,739 business shutdowns nationwide, 20.99 percent higher YoY.Professional, scientific and technical activities, as well as construction, are other business fields where a large number of business dissolutions were reported: 2,083 (+13.83 pct), and 2,092 (+10.75 pct), respectively.As many as 2,794 dissolutions were recorded this September, most of them in Bucharest (423) and the counties of Constanta (152), Cluj (125), and Arges (121).
Around 32% of Romanians plan to spend their upcoming holidays abroad, with Greece, Italy, and Spain topping the list of preferred destinations, according to the Visa CEE Travel and Payment Intentions Study 2025. Of those going abroad for the summer, nearly 40% say they are “experience seekers,” prioritizing discoveries and stepping out of their comfort […]
Călin Georgescu, the far-right, Russia-friendly politician who surprisingly emerged as the first-round winner of last year’s presidential elections, will remain under judicial supervision after the District 1 Court in Bucharest rejected his appeal against the prosecutors’ decision to extend the preventive measure,
The mayor of Timișoara, Dominic Fritz, will be the new leader of the Save Romania Union party, or USR, after he received 67.2% of the votes in an internal race. The vote for the new party president was conducted online and started Wednesday at 10 AM and ended Friday at noon. A total of 10,914 […]
The Sports Barometer in Romania, a study conducted by IRES and presented on Thursday, June 12, during the Sports Festival, reveals that 32% of Romanians do not engage in any type of physical activity, and that as age increases motivation drastically decreases. According to the study, 28% of Romanians are super-active and do a form […]
The Romanian-American University has officially launched the country’s first Department of Latin American Studies (DSLA), marking a significant step in its internationalization efforts. The inauguration brought together official representatives from eight Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay - underlining the strong diplomatic support for deepening educational and cultural […]
Romanian president Nicușor Dan laid wreaths on Friday, June 13, at the Monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad and at the “Kilometer Zero of Democracy” Monument. The violent events of June 1990 remain in post-communist memory as the “June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad” and refer to the repression, […]
