Romanian News brief: March 15th, 2019

Finance ministry will finish this week a draft of changes to the emergency decree 114/2018 that introduced a tax on bank assets and raised capital requirements for mandatory private pension funds. Tax on banks’ assets could wipe out a total of 1.2 to 1.71 points of the country’s economic growth in 2019 and 2020, according to an impact

Romanian News brief: Feb. 22nd, 2019

The national unemployment rate in Romania at the end of January dropped to 3.32%, 1.50 percentage points below the figure for the same month of 2018, according to data from the National Employment Agency (ANOFM) published on February 25. According to the source, the total number of unemployed persons was 289,582, 63,485 of whom were receiving unemployment benefits.