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Trade: Eurostat: Romania cheapest in the EU for food and non-alcoholic drinks in 2023
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Romania had the lowest prices for food and non-alcoholic drinks in 2023, followed by Poland and Slovakia, show the data published, on Friday by the National Institute for Statistics (INS).According to INS, which relies on the Eurostat data, Romania was in 2023 the cheapest state in the EU for ‘ food and ...
Study: Romanians are placing an increasing emphasis on natural cosmetic products – 45% consider them essential
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
The latest study conducted by Reveal Marketing Research explores the behaviors and preferences of Romanian consumers regarding cosmetic products, with a focus on trends ...
Cars: Dacia will launch several electric models, starting with Sandero in 2027
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Dacia, the low cost car of the French group Renault, will launch several electric models in future, starting with the next Sandero, which will appear in 2027, according to director Denis Le Vot, Reuters informs. At present, Dacia offers a single fully electric model, Spring, while the company hopes that placing Dacia in the area of accessible prices, makes it a good competitor in the context of the ...
Real Estate: Colliers: Romania’s land market, dominated by local investors
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Despite the challenging backdrop, marked by political and economic uncertainty, the Romanian land market reached a solid transaction volume of 450 million Euros in 2024, broadly comparable to the previous year, as per Colliers estimates. The real estate consultancy tracks deals involving land plots for commercial real estate projects, usually in an urban setting. The sector continued thus to demonstrate significant momentum through some representative ...
Two-room apartments being most polular for Romanians in 2025
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Two-room apartments in big cities in Romania are the most popular in 2025, according to an analysis released on Thursday on a real estate platform. As for prices, most potential buyers do not intend to pay more than 120,000 euros for a future dwelling, while 34% want to pay cash and many others wish to access mortgage loans. According ...
Infrastructure: Airline TAROM's newly established technical arm to provide civil aircraft maintenance and repair services
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Romania's flagship airline TAROM has a newly established technical arm - TAROM Tehnic, tasked with providing maintenance and repair services for civil aircraft, specializing in Boeing, Airbus and ATR models. The new entity will continue the tradition and expertise of the technical teams of the former TAROM Technical Department, a company release informs."This strategic transformation addresses the need to modernize and streamline operations, but also ...
Capital airports witness record air traffic in 2024, exceeding historic maximum of 2019
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
The two airports in the Capital witnessed a record air traffic last year, with the number of passengers passing through them having increased 9.22% compared to 2023, and 8.99% compared to 2019, when the historic maximum was reached, Bucharest Airports National Company (CNAB) reports on Thursday.According to CNAB data, in 2024, the Henri Coanda International Airport Bucharest and the Aurel Vlaicu Bucharest-Baneasa International Airport recorded air ...
Romanian airline to operate eight weekly flights from Cluj to Bucharest
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
The Romanian company AnimaWings is operating as of Wednesday eight weekly flights from Cluj airport, on the Bucharest-Cluj route and return."Starting today, AnimaWings airline will connect Cluj-Napoca with Romania's capital, Bucharest. The flights will have eight weekly frequencies, on Mondays (2 frequencies), Wednesdays (2 frequencies), Thursdays, Fridays (2 frequencies) and Sundays, and tickets can be booked on the airline's website: ...
Agriculture: Romania Tops European Grain Exporters’ Ranking in Six Months
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
The EU’s second largest grain exporter, after France, Romania reached the top in the first half of this trading year, with exports 2.1 times higher than its main competitor. Romania’s exports of common wheat, common wheat flour – grain equivalent, durum wheat, durum wheat flour – grain equivalent, barley and maize amounted to 5.1 million tons in the first half of this marketing year (July 1, ...
APIA authorizes payments worth 337.659 million EUR to 639,440 farmers since early December
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
The Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture (APIA) has authorized payments to 639,440 farmers worth a total of 337.659 million EUR (1.68 billion RON) between December 2, 2024 and January 15, 2025, as part of the advance payment campaign for the 2024 application year, APIA announced in a press release sent on Wednesday.According to the source 303.479 million EUR (1.51 billion RON) come from the European Agricultural Guarantee ...
Cow's milk collected in Romania, Jan.-Nov. 2024, up 4.3pct
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
The cow's milk collected in the first 11 months of 2024 by processors in Romania from farms and collection centres was up4.3% y-o-y, according to data published on Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).The highest increase in production between January 1 and November 30, 2024 was recorded for butter (+9.4%). The amount of raw milk imported by processing units increased by 41.7%.In November 2024, the amount of cow's milk collected ...
Infrastructure: Wizz Air resumes flights to Tel Aviv from Bucharest and Iasi
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Wizz Air, the low-cost airline, will resume operations to Tel Aviv from Bucharest on January 15th and from Iasi on March 25th. From Bucharest, the flights will be operated five times per week, and then double daily starting in April. From Iasi, flights will operate two times per week. Tickets are available on wizzair.com and the airline’s official app. Air carrier Wizz Air announced that it is ...
Number of passengers who traveled by train down by 4.4 pct in the first 9 months of 2024
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The number of passengers traveling by train in the first nine months of 2024 was 53.718 million, down by 4.4% compared to the same period last year, according to data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).Of these, 53.479 million passengers traveled within the country and 239,000 made international trips.In the first nine months of the year, road remains the most used mode of transport, accounting for ...
TAROM to offer EUR 23 domestic flights from February 10
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The TAROM national airline is running a special offer between January 13 and 15 for those who want to fly with the company on domestic routes, with fares starting at EUR 23 for one-way flights.The offer is valid for flights operated by TAROM from February 10, 2025.You can choose to travel to Romania at fares starting at EUR 23for a one-way flight (from domestic destinations to Bucharest), at EUR 47 (from Bucharest to domestic destinations), and ...
Tourism :Praid salt mine sees some 470,000 visitors in 2024
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The number of 2024 visitors to the Praid salt mine in Harghita County was slightly up, despite it being closed for a month, right at the beginning of the tourist season, due to underground infiltration.According to salt mine director Sebestyén József, approximately 470,000 people entered the underground attraction last year, by about 5,000 more compared to 2023, making the tourist year quite acceptable taking into account that the mine was ...
Arrivals in tourist accommodation units up 4.4pct in Jan-Nov 2024
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The tourist accommodation establishments, including apartments and rooms for rent, last year, January through November, welcomed 13.31 million people, which means a spike of 4.4 per cent compared to the same period a year before, according to data released on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).Of the total number of arrivals, between January 1 and November 30, 2024, arrivals of Romanian tourists in tourist accommodation establishments ...
Trade: Inatech: The e-commerce sector in Romania was estimated at 11.7 billion euros in 2024
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Inatech Group, a player on the Romanian packaging and insulation materials industry for construction, shows that the e-commerce sector becomes increasingly competitive, growing steadily in recent years, so that the demand for premium, personalised and more resistant packaging has also increased. In 2023, as the e-commerce sector represented approximately 13% of the group's turnover, in 2024 it increased at over 15%. According to the group, the e-commerce sector in ...
Retail trade turnover up 8.7 pct in first 11 months of 2024
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The retail turnover volume (except for trade in motor vehicles and motorcycles), as unadjusted series, recorded an overall increase of 8.7% in the first 11 months of 2024, compared to the same period of the previous year, according to data published on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).According to the official statistics, in this margin, increases were reported in the sales of non-food products (+14.7%), the sales of food, beverages and ...
Agriculture: Eurobarometer survey shows strong support for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
According to the latest Eurobarometer survey, support for the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) has reached an all-time high. The level of public awareness for the CAP is at its highest level since 2007, with 78% of respondents saying they ...
European Commission has officially reimbursed Romania the sum of 1.12 billion euros
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The European Commission has officially reimbursed Romania the sum of 1.12 billion euros, namely reimbursements from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EGF), the Payments and Intervention Agency for Agriculture (APIA) announced on Friday."In accordance with the FEGA expenditure declaration, sent by the Payments and Intervention Agency for Agriculture (APIA) to the European Commission, on January 7, 2025, the European funds representing ...