In January - April 2025, Romania's balance-of-payments current account posted a deficit of EUR 10,103 million, compared with EUR 6,289 million in the same year-ago period, the National Bank of Romania (BNR) reported on Friday.The breakdown shows that the deficit on trade in goods widened by EUR 2,596 million, the surplus on services expanded by EUR 433 million, the primary income deficit increased by EUR 303 million, while the secondary income balance made a negative contribution of EUR 1,348 million.In January - April 2025, total external debt rose by EUR 4,196 million to EUR 209,089 million, of which long-term external debt at end-April 2025 ran at EUR 158,968 million (76.0 percent of total external debt), up 2.6 percent against end-2024; short-term external debt at end-April 2025 amounted to EUR 50,121 million (24.0 percent of total external debt), up 0.5 percent from end-2024.Long-term external debt service ratio stood at 13.2 percent in January - April 2025 against 19.6 percent in 2024. At end-April 2025, goods and services import cover ran at 5.7 months, a level similar to that of 31 December 2024.At end-April 2025, the ratio of the National Bank of Romania's foreign exchange reserves to short-term external debt by remaining maturity came in at 100.0 percent, as against 99.1 percent at end-2024.
Exim Banca Romaneasca supports the development of Romanian companies by granting loans for investments and working capital under advantageous conditions, with European guarantees that can cover up to 70% of the financing value, following the signing of a guarantee agreement between the bank and the European Investment Fund (EIF). EIF guarantees can be accessed under […]
Romania’s Ministry of Investments and European Projects will introduce an open data type of reporting, with all 17,000 projects included in the EU-funded Recovery and Resilience Plan, or PNRR. The projects will be placed in a database indexable by location, type of beneficiary, or type of intervention, according to minister Dragoș Pîslaru. "We are talking […]
Romanian developer IULIUS announced on Tuesday, September 23, that it will invest EUR 29 million in “the largest bioremediation project in Europe by a private investor,” restoring 38 hectares of contaminated land in downtown Constanța as part of its EUR 800 million urban regeneration project. The site, once home to the city’s Oil Terminal platform, […]
The Prosecutor’s Office attached to Romania’s High Court requested that the European Parliament lift the immunity of MEP Diana Șoșoacă on Tuesday, September 23. The request relates to cases of unlawful deprivation of liberty, Holocaust denial, public promotion of the cult of persons convicted for genocide and war crimes, as well as fascist, legionary, racist, […]
Greek authorities have arrested two Romanian nationals on suspicion of espionage after they allegedly took pictures of the Hellenic Navy’s main base on the island of Salamina, the Coast Guard said on Tuesday, September 23, as reported by ekathimerini.com. The men, aged 52 and 22, were detained on Monday afternoon after Navy personnel spotted...
Last month, the Solis student team from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca crossed the Australian desert from north to south over 6 days aboard the solar-powered car “Hyperion.” The crossing was part of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2025, which took place on a 3,020 km route, from the cities of Darwin to Adelaide, crossing […]
