Articulating a strategy for Made in Romania production aligned with the Made in Europe agenda and public investments to help less competitive regions improve their performance and recover the gap, are among the recommendations of a study presented on Wednesday at an event organized by the European Institute in Romania (IER)."What is important is that this activity is closely correlated with the industrial policy of the European Union and with the sectoral strategies: solar, wind, hydrogen. So it should not go against Europe's energy and environmental policy, but in tandem with it," said Daniela Staicu, associate professor at the Academy of Economic Studies, Faculty of Business Administration with teaching in foreign languages, coordinator of SPOS 2023 homonymous study.The European Institute in Romania organized on Wednesday an event that is part of the Dialoguri@IER series, with the theme "Consolidation of a resilient European economy on the horizon of 2040. Romania's integration into European value chains".The study was presented by Daniela Staicu and Eugenia Gusilov, founding director of Romania Energy Center - ROEC, co-author of the homonymous SPOS 2023 study.Daniela Staicu mentioned that Romania's economy is 12th at the European level, with a GDP of 286 billion euros in 2022. Compared to the size of the European Union's economy, it represents 1.8% of the Union's GDP.She declared that the main cities that constituted the engines of economic growth of 4.8% from 2022 were Bucharest, Constanta and Brasov.
Romania is reportedly considering launching a Golden Visa program offering temporary residence permits to non-EU investors in exchange for significant financial commitments in the country, Profit.ro reported. According to the draft bill, the scheme – officially called...
Romania's Social Democratic Party (PSD) may insist on hiking the minimum wage as of January 2026, in line with the national legislation, but also to implement the Directive (EU) 2022/2041 on minimum wage as already envisaged last year. This puts at risk the government's plans for keeping the wages in the budgetary sector constant until […]
The Turceni City Hall signed on Tuesday, October 14, a financing contract with the European Investment Bank (EIB) for a project that aims to create a renewable energy hub, Economica.net reported. The project, worth a total of...
The Danish company Eurowind, which has been present on the Romanian market for 14 years, will develop large-scale wind, photovoltaic, and battery projects in Romania. The target is 1,000 MW installed by 2030, and a third of the group's investments are allocated to Romania, according to
Cristian Geanaliu, Executive Director of Global Markets at Garanti BBVA Romania, analyzes the persistent inflation and the ongoing imbalance between monetary and fiscal policies shaping Romania’s economic outlook for 2026. Romania enters the last quarter of 2025 within a complex macroeconomic framework. An inflation rate well above the central bank’s target, high interest rates, a […]
One day before the closing of the subscription phase for the IPO at Grup EM, which includes Electromontaj among other companies in the group, reached a subscription level of only a quarter of the total securities put up for sale. The relative caution of investors can be explained by a combination of bad memories from […]
