UniCredit Bank is starting 2026 with a 1.5% economic growth forecast for Romania, compared with 0.8% in 2025, while inflation should drop to 4.5% from 9.8% and Romania’s central bank should cut the key rate to 5.5% from 6.5% in a best-case scenario.
The Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIR) has unanimously decided to support the free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur, seeing it as an opportunity to consolidate Romania's position as a regional industrial hub and to diversify Romanian companies' export markets.
Romania recorded the highest current account deficit among the European Union member states in the third quarter of 2025, amounting to EUR8.3 billion, which is similar to the EUR8.2 billion level reported in the third quarter of 2024, per data released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.