Romania and Poland are facing the highest fiscal deficits in the region in 2025, 7% to 8% of GDP, which are estimated to go down in 2026, when Poland’s deficit could be higher than Romania’s, Austria’s Erste group says in a report.
Romanian state-run natural gas producer and supplier Romgaz (stock symbol: SNG) on Sept 15 made a term deposit in the amount of RON300 million with the Exim Banca Romaneasca (the former EximBank), the company has announced in a report to the Bucharest Stock Exchange on Sept 15, 2025.
Romania's Finance Ministry raised RON1.07 billion from banks on Monday (Sept 15), selling government paper in two auctions, at an annual average yield of 7.5%.
Life insurance company Metropolitan Life, with some 4 million customers in Romania, reported a 20% increase in gross written premiums in the first half of 2025, up to RON453 million.
Romania's energy output decreased by an annual 4% to 9.544 million tons of oil equivalent (TOE) in January-July 2025 mainly due to a decline in hydro and wind power generation, the statistical office said on Monday (Sept 15), citing provisional data.
Moody's Ratings said it has affirmed Romania's long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings at 'Baa3' with a 'negative' outlook, as the country avoided a downgrade to junk status thanks to recent fiscal consolidation measures.
Romania's industrial production decreased by 1.3% in January-July 2025 in unadjusted data compared with the same period of 2024 and was down 0.7% when adjusted for the number of working days and seasonality, data from the country's statistical office INS showed on Monday (Sept 15).
In the second quarter of 2025, the employment rate for the working-age population (15-64 years) was 63.3%, increasing by 0.6 percentage points (pp) compared to the level recorded in the first quarter of 2025, data from Romania's statistical office INS showed on Monday (Sept 15).
Romanian Finance Minister Alexandru Nazare has recently met in Washington with representatives of the US Department of Commerce to discuss opportunities offered by Romania, with American officials being particularly interested in infrastructure, energy, technology and healthcare projects.
Cloud9, part of the real estate arm of Alfa Group, has earmarked EUR3 million to build a school within the Cloud9 Evolution project. The institution is set to be opened in school year 2026-2027 and will receive students both from Cloud9 projects and Bucharest’s northern area.
Real estate developer Prima Development Group of Oradea has acquired a two-hectare land plot next to PRIMA Solis housing compound, whose construction was set off this summer on the former industrial platform Antrefrig of Bucharest.
The European Investment Fund (EIF) has launched a new funding call worth as much as EUR100 million meant to stimulate Romania innovation ecosystem.