Author: Alexandru Popescu
The contract for Lot 3 of the Oradea-Arad express road was signed on January 29 with the Turkish company Nurol, which will have to execute the 47-km stretch in 24 months at a cost of 2.85 billion lei. With a total length of 120 kilometers, only section 3 from Chișineu-Criș to Arad was not contracted. Today we signed the contract for the execution of Lot 3 (47.07 km) of this strategic express road for Romania. This is a key moment, marking the fact that the entire high-speed connection between Arad and Oradea is now covered by contracts...
The unemployment rate in December 2025 was, in seasonally adjusted form, 6%, equal to the value recorded in November 2025, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, according to Agerpres. The unemployment rate for women was 0.2 percentage points higher than for men. According to the NSO, the number of unemployed (aged 15-74) estimated for December 2025 was 493,700 people, equal to the previous month (493,700 unemployed in November), but up from the same period of the previous year (462,700 unemployed in December 2024). By gender, the unemployment rate...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invested a record EUR 955 million in 37 projects in Romania in 2025, a significant increase from the EUR 707 million invested in 44 projects in 2024, reports a press release from the financial institution. This is the highest annual business volume ever recorded in Romania since the EBRD started investing here in 1992 - a truly amazing demonstration of the confidence of our clients, the commitment of our team and the strength of the Romanian economysaid EBRD Country Director for Romania Victoria Zinchuk. The...
IMM Romania calls for the introduction of the obligation to register workplaces only for those with a minimum of five employees and located in a TAU other than the registered office. The Ministry of Finance has put in public debate the draft GEO for the completion of Law no. 207/2015 on the Fiscal Procedure Code, as well as some fiscal-budgetary measures correcting the provisions of Law no. 245/2025, which oblige companies that have a secondary establishment with at least one employee to apply for tax registration of that entity as a payer of salaries. IMM Romania supports the completion of the draft by introducing the obligation to register workplaces only for those...
The 22 autonomous trolleybuses purchased with 70 million lei in non-reimbursable funds have arrived in the country. They are parked at Ciolpani, at the supplier's headquarters, and will be moved to the Bucureștii Noi depot after the final adaptations have been made, the Bucharest City Hall announced. ”The tests follow, for the reception of each trolleybus, then, from spring, you will be able to travel with them, on line 86. The trolleybuses are some with autonomy, which means that they can run without power from the electricity grid for a distance of at least 20 km.” The vehicles are 12 meters long and have a carrying capacity of 93...
Forty-four years ago, photovoltaic panels were still in their infancy, and the idea to build the first grid-connected photovoltaic panel installation didn't come until 1982, with its inauguration in 1984 in Switzerland. The amazing thing is that the plant is still working today, almost 42 years after it was installed. By the early 1980s, some countries more open to new technologies, such as Switzerland, had begun to use photovoltaic panels for more isolated buildings such as mountain shelters in the Alps, and their energy was used only locally, for small consumption needs, writes PiataAuto.md. But it was the Swiss who...
Raiffeisen Bank Romania ended 2025 with a net profit of 1.75 billion lei, up 4% from the previous year, according to a press release from the bank. The bank's total assets exceeded RON 88.6 billion, up by 8% year-on-year. Operating expenses advanced by 6% year-on-year. The 2025 results reflect an accelerated growth, which reinforces Raiffeisen Bank's attractiveness on the market and confirms the trust that customers place in us every day. We have a solid financial performance, the result of a strong growth strategy, underpinned by growth in both savings and...
The SFS Group is strengthening its market position with the accelerated expansion of its industrial trading division following the acquisition by Hoffmann SE of Gödde GmbH, Oltrogge Werkzeuge GmbH and Hch. Perschmann GmbH. The transactions, currently in the clearance process under merger control law, are scheduled to be completed by the end of March 2026. The three companies, based in Germany, generated combined sales to third parties of around €270 million in 2025 and employ around 450 people in the respective structures, Construction Agenda reports. Given that these entities purchase...
Closed-end alternative investment funds will be able to lend to legal entities, the president of the Association of Romanian Fund Administrators (AAF), Horia Gustă, has announced. „It is a European directive from AIFMD 2 - Alternative Investment Directive 2. Basically, this directive says that alternative investment funds can make several alternative investments. One of them is the possibility to lend, but they don't lend to the manager, they lend to the manager on behalf of the fund. So, alternative investment funds will be able to make loans, only they will not be able to lend to consumers. It is for legal persons mainly, so not consumers....
Clean Recycle reached more than 1,000 customers last year, up 10% from 2024, according to a release. The company, which is one of the leaders in the local packaging transfer of responsibility (OIREP) market, has strengthened its nationwide operations as its customer portfolio has expanded, Cargo Day writes. Thus, it has reported an increase of 16% in the volume of packaging waste collected, i.e. an amount of 140,000 tons, in 2025 compared to 2024. At the same time, Clean Recycle has recorded a turnover of more than €10 million in 2025. This...