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Conjuncture

Lacking economic vision and strategy, the government in Bucharest throws Romania into the clutches of recession and social inequality

Bucharest, October 22, 2025 - by Constantin Radut - Having come to the head of the Romanian Government about half a year ago, Ilie Bolojan proclaimed himself the country's savior. Frowning, with his eyes fixed on the numbers, absorbed...
Conjuncture

IMF appears pessimistic regarding the growth estimates for the Romanian economy

Bucharest, October 14, 2025 - RBJ - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised downward its estimates for the growth of the Romanian economy this year, to 1%, from 1.6% as forecast in April and 3.3% as the advance...
Conjuncture

Romania is not on the verge of any economic disaster or default. These are the political “inventions” of the Bucharest PM and his finance...

Bucharest, August 17, 2025 - RBJ - For several weeks, the PM of Romania, Ilie Bolojan, a former mayor of a provincial town and without any macroeconomic training, has been throwing all kinds of rhetorical figures left and right...
Event & Opinion

The war in Ukraine is destroying the economic growth in the eastern part of the EU. Romania is a notable exception. Hungary is sinking...

Bucharest, August 16, 2023 – The inevitable is happening before our eyes. Despite all the optimistic estimates of national and international analysts, the national economies of Eastern Europe are having a hard time coping with the consequences of the...
Business

The Romanian holding company Green Group fully buys UAB Zalvaris, from Lithuania, and becomes the largest integrated recycling group in Central Europe

  By RBJ Abris Capital Partners (“Abris”), the ESG transformation specialist private equity investor, has supported GreenGroup, the circular economy leader in Central Europe, in signing the acquisition of UAB Zalvaris (“Zalvaris”), the largest industrial waste management company in Lithuania. Part of...
Conjuncture

Romania’s GDP maintains its high growth rate: 5% in the first 9 months and 4.7% in Q3 2022/Q3 2021

By RBJ Romania's economy rose, in the first nine months of the current year, by 5% on the gross series and by 4.3% on the seasonally adjusted series, compared to a similar period in 2021, while in the third quarter...
Conjuncture

EC estimates an increase in Romania’s GDP of 5.8% in 2022, 1.8% in 2023 and 2.2% in 2024

By RBJ The European Commission has improved the estimates regarding the growth of the Romanian economy this year, from 3.9% as it anticipated in July to 5.8%, according to the autumn economic forecasts, published on Friday. In the first semester of...
Science & innovation

McKinsey & Company: Romania’s digital economy could grow 3.5 times to 52 billion euros in 2030 (1)

By RBJ Romania's digital economy could grow 3.5 times to around 52 billion euros in 2030 compared to 14.8 billion euros last year, ICT and digital commerce being the main growth drivers, according to the new McKinsey&Company report titled Digital...
Commodities

Exports increased by 23.9% in the first half of the year, and imports increased by 28.5%. The trade balance deficit reached over 15 billion...

By rbj The frozen structure of the Romanian economy, based especially on the manufacture and export of components for machines and equipment, is starting to be observed more and more in this period when global flows are deteriorating, and the...
Conjuncture

Pessimistic estimate for the Romanian economy: growth of 2.9% in 2022, unemployment of 5.4%

By Andra Beltz The National Strategy and Forecast Commission (CNSP) revised down by 1.4 percentage points, to 2.9% the growth estimate of the Romanian economy for this year, from 4.3% as previously forecast. In the spring version of the Medium Term...
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The Board of the National Bank of Romania decided to keep the monetary policy rate at 6.50 percent per annum

Bucharest, February 17, 2026 - RBJ - In its meeting of February 17, 2026, the Board of the National...
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