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 »

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 »

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 exports increased by 6.5 percent year-on-year between January and November 2014, while imports had a lower growth rate of 6 percent, leading to a trade deficit of 5.3 billion euro, higher by 97.1 million euro compared to the previous year, announces the National Institute of Statistics (INSSE)....more »

The retail turnover volume recorded a growth rate above 7 percent in the first eleven months of the past year stimulated by rising sales of non-food products, food, beverages and tobacco, indicates a report of the National Institute of Statistic...more »

Romania has committed to use all the CHF181 million (150 million euros) non-reimbursable funds granted by Switzerland for helping our country to develop, amount which will be allocated to more than 250 projects already approved, announces the Ministry of Finance....more »

Romania’s central bank, BNR, lowered again the monetary policy rate to 2.5 percent, a new historic low, which will be effective starting with January 8, 2014, announces a press release of the bank....more »

The new Minister of Economy, Mihai Tudose, met with representatives of the judicial administrators of Oltchim, RomInsolv and BDO Business Restructuring who presented the timetable for reorganizing the insolvent chemical plant and which fixes March 7, 2015 as the deadline for approving the reorganization plan....more »

The National Bank of Romania’s foreign exchange reserves increased at the end of 2014 to 32.216 billion euro from 31.467 billion euro in November, while in 2013 they came to 32.525 billion euro....more »

The euro dropped to its lowest level since 2006 on rumors that the European Central Bank will launch a bond-buying programme, the uncertain outcome as regards Greece’s possible exit from the Euro zone also affecting the euro’s index, reads Reuters....more »