Economics

Romania’s main electricity producer and supplier plans to sell additional 33 small hydropower plants (SHPs) from its portfolio of 128 power stations through an auction which will be conducted in February 2015, said Remus Borza, representative of Euro Insol, the judicial administrator of Hidroelectrica (in insolvency since February 2014), according to Mediafax....more »

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has maintained the forecasts as regards Romania's economy which is expected to advance by 2.8 percent in 2015, indicates the latest regional report of the financial institution....more »

Dacia's sales moved upwards last year when the group sold nearly 511,500 vehicles, thus maintaining a 19 percent growth rate as in 2013 which drives it on top among mainstream brands in terms of sales in Western Europe. On the domestic market Dacia also increased its sales by 19 percent to circa 29,700 units, the market share standing at 31.2 percent, according to a press release.
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Bucharest-based Raiffeisen Leasing, the subsidiary of Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International has been provided a 132 million lei (about 30 million euro) loan by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, funds which will be on-lent to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to finance leases of equipment, trucks, trailers and commercial vehicles, according to a press release of the financial institution....more »

Industrial production in Romania went up between January and November 2014 over the same period last year, increasing both as gross series, by 6.3 percent, and as series adjusted by number of working days and seasonality, by 7.5 percent, announces the National Institute of Statistics (INSSE)....more »

The World Bank has revised its initial estimation on Romania’s economic progress, anticipating and advance by 2.9 percent of the Gross Domestic Product this year, according to the Global Economic Prospects report published on January 14, 2015. In June 2014, the financial institution forecasted a higher growth, of 3.2 percent, however, the growth rate recorded over the past year, which was below initial expectations, determined a revision of the forecast....more »

The law no. 11/2015 enforcing the emergency ordinance that provides the reduction of the tax on special construction by 33 percent will come into effect as from January 16, 2015 after being published in Romania’s Official Gazette three days earlier....more »

The Romanian Competition Council has sanctioned Metro, Real, Selgros, and Mega Image, as well as 21 of their suppliers with fines totaling approximately 35 million euro (154 million lei) in the investigation on the food retail market which revealed that the companies were involved in price fixing agreements between 2005 and 2009. The competition authority announces that the anticompetitive practices detected concern both agreements setting the reselling price and their actions with respect to sales promotions....more »

After 11 months in 2014, the level of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Romania is still below the volume recorded in the previous year, though the decline slowed downed following inflows of 531 million euro in November, according to a release of Romania’s Central Bank, BNR....more »

Romania’s building industry has slowed its decline in November 2014, the latest report released by the National Institute of Statistics indicating increases both compared to the previous month and to November 2013, albeit overall, construction work dropped by more than 9.5 percent year-on-year in the first eleven months of 2014....more »
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