Romania's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has gone up in 2021 by 17 billion Euro, as opposed to 2019 and reached almost 1.190 billion RON, a historic record, according to the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Tourism, Constantin-Daniel Cadariu."Romania reaches a GDP of almost 1.190 billion RON at the end of 2021, approximately 240 billion Euro. This is a historic record. Despite the biggest crisis of the last decades, Romania's GDP has gone up in 2021 by 17 billion Euro as opposed to 2019 (a boom year of the global economy when we had a GDP of 223 billion Euro). The GDP in 2021 is 21 billion Euro larger than last year (218.9 billion Euro), during the peak of the pandemic caused economic crisis. Furthermore, Romania ends 2021 with an economic growth of approximately 7%. At the beginning of the year, the Citu Government cautiously estimated a growth of 4.3%. Economic growth will be 2.7 percentage points higher than the one estimated when the 2021 budget was being made," Cadariu wrote on Facebook, on Monday.In the fiscal-budgetary strategy for 2021-2023, based on which the budget was built last year, an economic growth of 4.3% was foreseen, as well as a GDP of 1,116.837 billion RON.The National Commission for Strategy and Prognosis (CNSP) estimated, on its medium term forecast for 2021-2025, the autumn variant, a GDP value of 1,190.3 billion RON in 2021, with a 7% increase from the previous year.
Passenger traffic at Bucharest’s two airports reached 13.2 million in January–September, an increase of 9.23% compared with the same period in 2024, the Bucharest National Airports Company (CNAB) announced. The figures cover Henri Coandă International Airport in Otopeni and Aurel Vlaicu Airport in Băneasa. Henri Coandă Airport handled 12.9 million passengers and 95,944 aircraft movements […]
The impact of the reform in local and central public administration will be about RON 3.5-4.5 billion (EUR 0.7-0.9 billion or up to 0.2% of GDP), announced the minister of development, Cseke Attila, according to Economedia.ro. "The impact...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a decision on November 13 that undermines efforts by Romania’s judiciary to secure higher remuneration for judges performing additional tasks, Economedia.ro reported. The ruling comes one...
The negotiations between the ruling coalition in Romania and the magistrates' organisations on the retirement terms of the judges and prosecutors reached a deadlock on November 13, amid maximal requests expressed by the magistrates that would result in their pensions remaining close to the pre-retirement wages and the retirement age rising slowly within 20 years […]
The Romanian government is close to submitting the fourth disbursement request under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), worth EUR 2.6 billion, minister of investments and European projects Dragoș Pîslaru said on November 13. The tranche consists entirely of grant funding and includes 62 milestones and targets linked to 26 reforms and 23 investments. […]
The Economic and Financial Affairs Council of the European Union on 13 November approved the revised National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) for Romania, providing for EUR 21.4 billion (EUR 7 billion downward revision) with half of the money (or roughly 2.5% of GDP) to be absorbed within less than a year – which is […]
