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RenewAcad, a network of training centers in renewable energy, has received a EUR 3.1 million financing from UniCredit Bank to develop the energy storage projects Petrila 1 and Petrila 2. This marks the first stage of an investment program in energy transition and the revitalization of Petrila, a former mining area in Hunedoara county. The…

Mehiläinen, the largest healthcare and social care provider in Finland, has received the necessary regulatory and customary investor approvals for the acquisitions of healthcare provider Regina Maria in Romania and MediGroup in Serbia. Mehiläinen acquired the two healthcare networks from private equity fund MidEuropa in a deal announced this April as “the largest healthcare services…

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…

A total of 40.7% of people in Romania lived in overcrowded households last year, according to data from the EU statistics office Eurostat. Romania is one of five EU countries where more than 30% of people reported living in overcrowded households, alongside Latvia (39.3%), Bulgaria (33.8%), Poland (33.7%), and Croatia (31.7%). At an EU level,…

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…