Analysis
Press Review - September 16, 2014
Survey Shows 67,000 Children Expected to Drop Out Of School By Summer Of 2015 Hidden costs in education and the sub-financing of the system will have a negative impact on the society in time...
Press Review - September 15, 2014
Romanian Economy Most Likely To Stay In Recession In 3rd Quarter The Romanian economy will most likely stay in recession in the third quarter of the year, according to economists’ estimation...
Press Review - September 12, 2014
Ioan Becali, Cristi Borcea And Liviu Ciobotariu Indicted In Belgium Former football manager Ioan Becali, former FC Dinamo official Cristian Borcea and coach Liviu Ciobotariu are among people...
Romanians Spend EUR4B Per Year In 60 Malls
The words “mall” and “shopping” entered Romanians’ vocabulary 15 years ago, with the opening, in September 1999, of Bucharest Mall in Vitan district, developed by Turkish group Anchor on the...
Weekly Export Risk Outlook, September 10
Economic sanctions imposed against Russia started to show their effects in the gross domestic product, Euler Hermes noted in its Weekly Export Risk Outlook report.
Press Review - September 11, 2014
Romania's Corina Cretu Designated EU Commissioner For Regional Policy Romanian social democrat MEP Corin Cretu has been designated EU Commissioner for Regional Policy in the new European Com...
International Retailers Vie For Small Merchants In Romania
The 70,000-80,000 small stores still operating in Romania are eyed by international retailers, which are trying to attract them in franchise. Thus, in full crisis, Carrefour, as well as Metr...
Interest Rates For Mortgage Loans In Lei Slide To Nearly 5%
The average effective interest rate of Romanian currency-denominated mortgage loans hit an all-time low of 5.2% per year in July, half the level of three years ago, when banks sold only euro...
Coface: Road Transporters Prone To Insolvency
Road transporters face fragile liquidity and are very exposed to negative shocks such as non-payment of receivables or declining sales, according to Coface Romania estimates.