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Against the backdrop of multiple political, macroeconomic, and microeconomic challenges, perceptions of the business climate deteriorated significantly this year, the AmCham Survey on Romania’s Investment and Business Climate in 2025 showed. Confidence declined sharply, from 45% in 2024 to just 21% of participating companies still rating the investment climate as good or very good, a…

Romgaz, the largest producer and main supplier of natural gas in Romania, has listed its second bond issue, worth EUR 500 million, on the main market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB). The bonds were previously admitted to trading on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange in November 2025. This issue, like the first one, is part…

Global Vision Investment Fund (GVIF), an investment and real estate development platform founded by the group Global Vision, has signed a financing agreement with Banca Comercială Română (BCR) for the Diehl Aviation facility project in Craiova. The financing, totaling EUR 12.7 million, consists of a development loan with a top-up included and supports the construction…

Romanian agri-food group Carmistin has secured a EUR 485 million syndicated credit to support its planned investments.  The credit will finance two strategic projects for the group, Carmistin said. The first one entails the development of a large-capacity pork meat processing unit, while the second consists of expanding and modernizing the group’s genetics and reproduction…

In messages posted over the weekend, both president Nicușor Dan and prime minister Ilie Bolojan marked 36 years since the December 1989 Romanian Revolution, which put an end to the communist regime in the country. The president used the opportunity to comment on the Romanian justice system, saying that resolving the major cases of the…

The Nokian Tyres factory in Oradea produced its one-millionth tire on December 20, fulfilling the target set for the current year, the company reported this week.  The factory in Romania was inaugurated in September 2024 following an EUR 650 million investment and began deliveries in March 2025, focusing on the production of car tires for…

Romanians working abroad have sent around EUR 60 billion back home over the past 12 years (from 2013 to mid-2025), more than twice the initially agreed value of Romania’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), according to an analysis published by Cristian Popa, a member of the board of the National Bank (BNR), as quoted…

Romania has officially submitted the fourth payment request under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, or PNRR, worth EUR 2.62 billion. The request includes 62 targets and milestones exclusively from the non-repayable European funds component, according to the minister of investments and European projects, Dragoș Pîslaru, cited by Digi24. According to the minister, “the implementation of…

The Education Ministry has set new rules covering homework assigned by teachers in the pre-university system, outlining the role of assignments meant to be completed at home and the time required to complete them. The ministerial order outlining the rules distinguishes between compulsory homework, intended for all students in the class and of average difficulty,…

A Romanian woman reportedly appears in the infamous case files published by the United States Department of Justice concerning convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, December 19. Although heavily redacted, the files show a history of payments made by Epstein to various individuals with Eastern European surnames.  According to one of the documents, a…