2016

The proportions of potentially avoidable deaths through timely and effective health care interventions, i.e. treatable deaths, among all deaths of persons aged less than 75 in 2016 vary between EU Member States. The highest shares of…

A Romanian city can boast more tourists than inhabitants. Roughly 370,000 visitors arrived in Cluj-Napoca (Transylvania, central Romania) for tourist purposes last year, which is a first considering that the city counted a population of…

In 2016,  almost 2.5 million foreign tourists came to Romania (2.469.9 thousand)  and their expenditure mounted to RON 5.9 billion, spending on average RON 2397.9/person, the National Institute of Statistics informed on Friday. In Quarter…

Criminality in Romania was down last year, for the fifth year in a row, said Interior minister Carmen Dan during the Interior Ministry’s 2016 activity report sitting. The minister said that the lowest criminality percentage has been…

The efforts of the judiciary system must be supported by the stability of the institutional and law framework in order to be efficient in the fight against corruption, the chief prosecutor of the National Anti-corruption Directorate, Laura…

President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday praised the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) for promptly reacting to the ordinance amending the criminal codes. The Romanian president attended the DIICOT 2016…

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 4.8% in 2016 as against the previous year, the National Institute of Statistics (INS) informed on Tuesday. Gross domestic product in Q4 2016 was, in real terms, by 1.3% higher, as compared to…

According to the annual Emerging Europe M&A Report, published by CMS in cooperation with EMIS, the rising stars of the region in 2016 were the Czech Republic and Romania. The 2016/17 edition of the report pulls together data and…

Romania is a strategic economic partner for the German economy, the German-Romanian Chamber of Commerce (AHK) informed in a press release on Friday. According to AHK, the bilateral economic ties continued to rise in 2016, with the…

The house prices across the European Union has increased by 1.5% in the third quarter of last year compared to the second quarter, while Romania is the only EU member state where the house prices has fallen by 0.7% from a quarter to…