Romania's unemployment rate reached 6% in November 2025, higher by 0.1 percentage points (pp) higher than in October 2025, the country's statistical office INS said on Thursday (January 8), quoting provisional data.
The IRCC, which banks use to set the interest rate for new loans taken since the spring of 2019, will start falling in the first quarter of 2026 to 5.68%, being calculated on the basis of Q3/2025 data, after the IRCC level applied in the last quarter of 2025 climbed to a record high of 6.06% (being calculated on the basis of Q2/2025 data).
Magazin Universal Maramures, a company that manages a commercial center of Baia Mare, has granted a EUR3.8 million loan to Foxmoor Development SAS, headquartered in Antibes, France.
The models manufactured in Romania by Dacia and Ford boasted high performances on the most important automotive markets of Western Europe in 2025, confirming the competitiveness of Romania car industry and the capacity of Mioveni and Craiova plants of producing cars able to successfully compete against some more established brands.
Ford’s Craiova plant manufactured 248,328 cars in 2025, slightly down from 250,670 in 2024. The Romanian plant operates at the highest capacity utilization degree among all Ford Otosan units, of 82%.
RebelDot Solutions, the software developer set up in 2018 in Cluj-Napoca, is going through a period of accelerated growth, with 2025 bringing a 50% turnover increase from 2024, to EUR21-22 million, as the company is turning from an outsourcing services provider into an innovation partner.