Romania continues to have the highest budget deficit of all the EU member countries, 7.5% in the first quarter of 2025, while the EU average is 2.9%, Eurostat data show.
eAWB, an online marketplace offering courier delivery services, in 2024 was aiming for EUR2 million turnover in the following 12 months, considering that it has recently re-launched its platform, this time a version entirely created by using artificial intelligence (AI).
Romania’s public debt overshot the RON1,000 billion mark in April and increased by RON15 billion to RON1,013 billion. It accounted for 56.6% of GDP compared with 55.8% in March, Finance Ministry data show.
The European Union recorded an average general government deficit to GDP ratio of 81.8% at the end of the first quarter of 2025. Romania was below this level, with 55.8%, 16th in the debt-to-GDP ranking of the 27 countries, Eurostat data show.
Romania's Finance Ministry raised RON800 million from banks on Monday (July 21), selling government paper, at an annual average yield of 7.31%.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is supporting the expansion of renewable energy in Romania with a EUR90 million loan to ENGIE Romania, one of the country’s leading energy suppliers and distributors.
Romanian and Central and Eastern European investors show growing interest in international capital markets, being drawn by increasingly accessible and attractive opportunities on the world’s major stock exchanges.
Affidea Romania, the largest medical imaging services operator, part of the European group of the same name, clinched three acquisitions in the first half of 2025, buying MedIF clinics of Otopeni, Multimed of Miercurea Ciuc and Kaliophion Medical.
Real estate developer Forte Partners is starting the construction of the office component of the third phase of U•Center office project of Tineretului area after it got the building permit at the end of June 2025.
Myosotis, a network of around 150 pharmacies, posted a significant 40% turnover increase in 2024.