The report finds that managing risk can no longer be a siloed activity relegated to annual planning or discussions between high-ranking officials.
Colliers consultants forecast economic growth of just over 2% in 2025, but caution that there are significant risks we could result in a softer outcome.
Investment, especially in Poland and Romania, is expected to improve on the back of structural reforms and delayed EU funds.
The Global Cooperation Barometer indicates that international cooperation has “flatlined”, but positive momentum in climate finance, health and innovation offers hope.
Romania's economy has fallen short of expectations, note Colliers consultants, who initially predicted a promising local economic scenario for 2024 that failed to materialize.
Latest CONFIDEX Debate, Romanian managers highlighted the budget deficit, fiscal risks, and RON depreciation as the main challenges for the country's economic trajectory in 2025.
SEE Property Forum 2024, Romania's leading international real estate event, brought together top economic minds to debate the effects of the economic convergence process in the region and also the current and future economic outlook of CEE.
While the US economy looks set for a soft landing, the eurozone continues to face many uncertainties, particularly in the industrial sector.
President Nadia Calviño and EIB Group delegation join partners at International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Washington DC.
The rather murky economic prospects at the European level, already confirmed in Great Britain and Germany, have raised the level of alert in the Romanian economy.
Without measures to support consumption, Romania risks losing its most important engine of economic growth.
Business has its eyes firmly set on a positive future, and leaders are looking to expand and grow with confidence.
Romanian companies anticipate improvement of macroeconomic indicators such as GDP, inflation and unemployment, but still adopt a prudent approach as uncertainty remains high.
The World Bank has significantly downgraded its economic growth projections for Romania this year, lowering expectations to 0.5% from the 1.3% forecast issued at the start of 2026.
Foraj Sonde Videle has announced the acquisition of Raffles Energy, a British holding company that owns two Romanian energy companies active in natural gas and electricity production.
Econergy Renewable Energy has secured approximately €31 million in project financing from Kommunalkredit Austria to develop its 60 MW photovoltaic project in southeastern Romania.
Romanian software company Arobs Transilvania Software has completed the merger by absorption of five subsidiaries - Arobs Development & Engineering, Berg Computers, Nordlogic Software, Infobest Romania, and Centrul de Soft GPS.
The European retail sector faced a cooling period in February 2026, with the latest Eurostat data revealing a divergence between a stabilising Union and a sharply declining Romanian market.