Agriculture: In  May  2017, the number  of  slaughtered  sheep  and  goats  decreased  more than 4.8 times

Economic

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

• Infrastructure: Building licence issued for connection of A3 highway with Bucharest
• Romania plans to invite bids for building 800 km of Craiova-Pitesti motorway
• PM Tudose: works on 800km of motorways are expected to be put up for a tender in 2017
• 2017 Q1 rail freight volume was up 9 pct YoY
• Tourism: Demand for holidays over 1,000 euros/family, higher than in 2016
• Eurostat: Romanians, 1 percent of the total number of EU residents who traveled to extra-EU destinations in 2015
• Telecom. IT: Internet service penetration rate in Romania stands at 89 percent
• Microsoft & Carrier Billing Partner Boku Expand into Spain, Romania, & Austria for Windows 10 Users
• Agriculture: In  May  2017, the number  of  slaughtered  sheep  and  goats  decreased  more than 4.8 times
• Trade : Study:Romania is second in Europe in terms of actual and expected average annual growth of sales in F&B sector
• Real estate: JLL: Developers should have commissioned over 200,000 sq.m of offices in 2017
• Housing prices go up by 7% in first 6 months of 2017, mainly in Cluj Napoca
• GTC pays 9 mln euro for office building in Romania
• Forte Partners invests EUR 37 million in Aviatiei Park project
• Healthcare: Over 14,000 physicians, 28,000 nurses left Romania in 2009-2015