Economy | 3 February, 2025 at 12:36 PM
European competitiveness: how countries can catch up with US and China
Between 2015 and 2022, European companies invested €700 billion less in technology than US competitors.
Between 2015 and 2022, European companies invested €700 billion less in technology than US competitors.
Despite €3 billion mobilised through the European Battery Alliance created in 2017, only 3% of the investment needed in the battery supply chain has been made.
Plans discussed with European Finance ministers in Luxembourg will broaden financing options and tools available to scale up European innovative companies and unicorns.
The study reveals that 83% of Romanians have a plan for their upcoming vacation season. Only 6% do not intend to go on holiday, while 12% have yet to finalize their arrangements.
Travel tech company FlixBus is adding new international coach connections from Romania to Greece and bolstering existing routes to Bulgaria.
EDP, through its subsidiary EDP Renewables, has opened its largest solar park in Romania, located in Albina, taking its total solar and wind capacities in the country to 570 MW.
Romanian patients wait, on average, 460 days to access innovative medicines, even after these therapies have been approved for reimbursement by the National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices (ANMDM).
The German tech company cbs purchased the SAP division of Romanian company SkyConsult, marking its entry into the local market.