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.
UNICEF is inviting teachers and students across Romania to take part in the 2025 edition of the World's Largest Lesson, held between November 17 and 25 to mark World Children's Day. Celebrated each year on November 20, the day commemorates the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, "the […]
PPC Group has expanded its renewable energy portfolio in Romania with the addition of a new 130 MW photovoltaic plant in Călugăreni, located 40 kilometers south of Bucharest. The project has recently been connected to the national grid. The plant was built using 227,240 bifacial photovoltaic panels and is expected to generate more than 193 […]
Several civic organisations held a protest last week targeting the leadership of Romania’s judiciary, after accusing senior magistrates of overstepping their institutional roles, Epochtimes-romania.com reported. The groups - Iniţiativa România, Corupţia ucide,...
The ruling coalition will no longer negotiate with the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) and the High Court (ICCJ) on the magistrates’ pensions law but instead will come up with a revised version of the bill by November 18, inviting magistrates’ associations to demonstrate their loyalty by issuing the necessary consultative opinion timely, such to […]
Along with the American investment fund Carlyle, which is said to want Lukoil's assets under a global deal and is already active in Romania through the Black Sea Oil and Gas company as the third largest gas producer in Romania (10%), there are at least two other companies interested, according to Romanian minister of energy […]
Subscriptions under the November 2025 issue under the Fidelis government bond scheme were the weakest in the last six months, signalling a moderation in investor appetite for this form of savings. The state raised only RON 1.3 billion (EUR 260 million), of which approximately two-thirds came from tranches denominated in euros,
