08.27.2020

The European Commission has approved an aid scheme of EUR935 million for Romania in order to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and some enterprises affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. more

07.02.2020

The European Commission (EC) has approved an approximately EUR800 million aid scheme to support companies in Romania that had been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. more

11.28.2014

After the green certificates meant to encourage renewable energy investments, the Romanian government thinks it has found a scheme that will allow it to finally launch the expansion of the nuclear more

09.17.2014

Romania's government on Wednesday approved a RON2.7 billion (EUR600 million) state aid scheme to benefit companies by 2020. more

07.17.2014

Romania’s clunkers scheme must be modified starting next year so that it may primarily sustain cars with low pollution levels and only then focus on driving used cars out of the market, the head of more

06.20.2014

The Romanian state is already owing almost EUR200 million to renewable energy investors, representing the value of green certificates investors should have received between July 2013 and April 2014 more

06.19.2014

Romanian Economy Minister Constantin Nita on Thursday said the Ministries of Economy and Finance are working on a support scheme for large natural gas producers. more

05.13.2014

The "Mihail Kogalniceanu" program allowing small and medium-sized businesses to get loans of up to RON400,000 with subsidized interest has been suspended this year, minister-delegate for SMEs, more

04.23.2014

Romania's government approved an aid scheme Wednesday whereby the state will cover part of the salary costs for a two-year period for companies creating at least 20 new jobs. more

04.16.2014

Households and companies in Romania held banking deposits guaranteed through the domestic depositor insurance scheme worth the equivalent of 159 billion lei (around EUR35 billion), namely a little more

02.10.2014

Loan installments are the second biggest expense of Romanians after gas. The fear of losing their jobs and becoming unable to pay future bills will make them save the money left from the restructuring more

02.04.2014

Romanian central bank’s chief Mugur Isarescu said Tuesday the government’s planned debt relief scheme to help troubled debtors could be a first step toward implementing a differentiated tax more

01.08.2014

Romania’s energy market regulator ANRE approved, in the last days of 2013, 110 green energy projects, threefold higher than last year’s monthly average, as it was the last chance for investors to more

12.18.2013

The modification of the clean energy support scheme as of January 1, 2014 will only affect those power generation facilities starting operation on or after that date, Romania’s energy market more

12.16.2013

The Romanian Government has decided that wind power producers will receive only 1.5 green certificates for each megawatt of energy delivered to consumers, while solar power producers will receive more

12.10.2013

The Romanian Government has extended until June 2013 the validity of two government decisions, allowing private-sector companies to access state aid worth almost EUR440 million. more

08.22.2013

Romania’s Government on Wednesday approved a decision raising the budget of a de minimis state aid scheme targeting small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) from 400 million lei (EUR89.8 million) to more

06.30.2013

Renewable energy producers received green certificates worth EUR250 million in the first five months of this year through the state’s support scheme, with the bulk of the money going to major more

06.10.2013

Verbund, the largest energy company in Austria, says it will not go ahead with investments of almost EUR100 million in expanding the wind project in Casimcea (Tulcea) if the support scheme is modified more

06.02.2013

Romania is the least competitive European Union country because of electricity prices and made a mistake when applying a green certificate scheme to support the production of green power which enables more

04.23.2013

Green power has been the hottest topic in the energy sector since the beginning of this year, with the prospect of changes to the support scheme pitching against one another investors, the authorities more

03.29.2013

An investor in a solar PV project who now gets six green certificates per megawatt/hour of power generated might get only four as of this summer, and the get the rest after mid 2016, according to a more

02.27.2013

A law significantly cutting the green energy support scheme could take effect as of July 1. At stake are investments of hundreds of millions of euros. more

01.28.2013

Renewable energy producers in Romania collected more than EUR310 million in green certificates in 2012, through the government support scheme, which is three times more than they got in 2010. more

09.01.2012

Romania’s Government approved a EUR42.8 million aid scheme Saturday, to benefit about 600,000 farmers whose crops have been affected by drought this summer, said Agriculture Minister Daniel more