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.
The number of people in Romania at risk of poverty stood at 3.59 million people in 2024, 375,000 fewer than in 2023, representing a 9.4% decrease, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, or INS. Despite the improvement, nearly one in five Romanians was affected by poverty last year. According to INS, 19% […]
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cluj-Napoca carried out multiple searches on Tuesday, July 1, at the Sibiu International Airport and the Sibiu County Council as part of an investigation into suspected fraud involving a EUR 54 million EU-funded infrastructure project. A total of 24 locations were searched across Bucharest, Brașov, and Sibiu county, […]
A Romanian taxi driver who scammed 90-year-old Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka was detained by police on Sunday, June 29, according to media reports. On Friday, June 27, the venerable Nigerian arrived at Bucharest's Otopeni Airport. He got into a taxi and asked to be taken to a hotel downtown. At the destination, the […]
Costin Șerban, a Romanian entrepreneur, is digitalizing the construction sector in the United Kingdom with an ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution developed over 12 years and an investment of GBP 1.6 million (EUR 1.86 million). Șerban’s cloud-based ERP platform is called Abilo, was developed by the Romanian IT company Obi Systems, and is dedicated to […]
Border checks between Bulgaria and Romania have officially been lifted on July 1, as part of the implementation of the Schengen Agreement. The lifting marks the end of the transitional period of heightened control at the internal border, which had remained in place for six months following their accession to the Schengen area by land […]
Remus Vulpescu became CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on Tuesday, July 1, taking over from Adrian Tănase as the stock exchange grapples with a market dominated by government bonds. Vulpescu, 53, is a graduate in political and legal sciences from the University of Bucharest and holder of an EMBA obtained in 2017. He […]
