Romanian inflation to close at 9.6% by year-end
Romania's inflation will finish the year at 9.6%, according to ING Bank Romania economists. This projection comes as the country's inflation is expected...
Romania's inflation will finish the year at 9.6%, according to ING Bank Romania economists. This projection comes as the country's inflation is expected...
Romania is among the few member states where residential prices have grown at rates below the EU average of around 58%, between Q1 2010 and Q1 2025, according to Eurostat.
According to data presented in November 2024 by the governor of the National Bank of Romania (NBR), Mugur Isărescu, the inflation forecast for the end of 2025 is estimated at 3.5%.
The consumer price index in December 2024 compared to November 2024 was up by 0.29%.
In the December 2024 business cycle survey, managers in the manufacturing industry forecast a moderate decrease in the volume of production for the next three months.
French and German families will benefit from sizable price reductions this year, while Romanian ones will see an increase.
Gifts are chosen based on the specific preferences of the recipients, say nearly 9 in 10 respondents, while the rest opt for universal gifts that would suit anyone.
There are more than 7,800 dental clinics and around 9,500 dentists in Romania and the average cost of treatment per patient is Ron 1,000.
The annual inflation rate in October 2024 compared to October 2023 calculated on the basis of the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) was 5%.
The building materials trade is seeing a steady rise in logistics costs. After an increase of 22% in 2023, in the first six months of this year it has reached 25%.
The construction materials whose prices are increasing, however, are Oriented Strand Boards (OSB), with an advance of 6%, and sandwich panels, whose price is rising by 4%.

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.