Romania has taken several steps to enhance its measures to counter money laundering, terrorist financing and the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, including regarding targeted financial sanctions, but still needs to address several moderate shortcomings, concludes MONEYVAL in a follow-up report released Thursday. MONEYVAL finds that Romania has made limited progress in addressing technical compliance deficiencies affecting the application of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations on targeted financial sanctions, virtual assets and virtual assets service providers, and statistics. The report highlights that the progress made was not sufficient to upgrade the compliance ratings of the four recommendations concerned, which remain rated “partially compliant”. Out of the 40 FATF recommendations, Romania continues to be rated as compliant on seven recommendations, largely compliant on 18 recommendations and partially compliant on 15 recommendations. Romania will remain under MONEYVAL’s enhanced follow-up procedure. The country is expected to report back on its overall progress in strengthening its measures to counter money laundering, terrorist financing and the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in May 2026.
Romania’s population could reach 14.36 million people in 2080, down from slightly over 19 million in 2025, which would mean a reduction of 4.6 million people, or almost a quarter of the population, according to an analysis carried out by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) in the study ‘Projection of Romania’s active population by […]
Daniel Băluță, the Social Democrats' (PSD) candidate for the general mayor elections in Bucharest scheduled for December 7, and the independent candidate supported by isolationist party AUR, Anca Alexandrescu, lead in the voting intentions of Bucharest residents, separated by only 0.1% percentage points, according to an opinion poll conducted by the AtlasIntel institute for
Grampet–GFR owner Gruia Stoica has signed a joint venture agreement with Chinese rolling stock manufacturer CRRC Shandong to develop a new freight wagon factory in Hungary, industry sources told Club Feroviar. The agreement was concluded last week during Stoica’s visit to China, according to the publication. ...
The Romanian government is examining amendments to the Oil Law that would allow the Trident offshore perimeter in the Black Sea, held 87.5% by Lukoil, to return to state ownership or be taken over by project partner Romgaz, which holds the remaining 12.5%,
The Canadian company Eldorado Gold has agreed to the sale of the Romanian gold mining project Certej, in Hunedoara County, for a total amount of up to USD 30 million, Profit.ro...
Cris-Tim Family Holding (BVB: CFH), the market leader in cold cuts and ready meals in Romania, reported revenues of RON 853.1 million (EUR 170 million) for the first nine months of 2025, a 3% y/y increase, supported by 5% growth in the Cold Cuts segment and a strong 21% advance in ready meals. Profitability improved […]
