The investments in tangible assets rose even faster, by over 17% y\/y in the first half of the year and by over 20% y\/y in Q2. The contribution of the EU-funded Resilience Facility has been highly visible in the first half of the year and will remain so in full 2026.<\/p>\n
The investments in new constructions, nearly two-thirds, rose well faster than average by 17.8% y\/y in H1 this year after an outstanding 21.5% y\/y advance in Q2. The investments in productive equipment rose by over 18% y\/y in each Q2 and H1.<\/p>\n
The overall advance of Romania’s net investments was dragged down significantly (-25% y\/y for H1) by a lower volume of \u201cother investments\u201d \u2013 such as R&D investments, acquisition of land and cattle, but also geological explorations.<\/p>\n
Investments remained a significant growth driver in the first half of the year, but lower consumption dragged down the economic growth into negative area.<\/p>\n
Romania\u2019s economy contracted by 0.4% year on year in the second quarter of 2026 (chart), narrowing from a 1.2% decline in the first quarter, with GDP down 0.7% in the first half of the year, according to preliminary data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on September 7.<\/p>\n
Construction was the only major sector to make a substantial positive contribution to Q2 and H1 economic activity. Construction output increased by 15.3% year on year in Q2 and 12.3% in H1, contributing 0.9 percentage points and 0.7pp to GDP growth, respectively, partly offsetting declines in industry and most services.<\/p>\n
On the demand side, gross fixed capital formation rose 12.7% year on year in Q2 and 10.9% in H1, while household consumption declined 1% in both periods.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The investments in tangible assets rose even faster, by over 17% y\/y in the first half of the year and by over 20% y\/y in Q2. The contribution of the EU-funded Resilience Facility has been highly visible in the first half of the year and will remain so in full 2026. The investments in new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}