FPIAR’s Romania Executive Summary was created with the aim of providing Italian companies with a concise yet structured tool for assessing the country’s economic, competitive, and social environment.
In an international context marked by growing geopolitical complexity, macroeconomic volatility, and structural transformations across European markets, it is essential to have analytical tools capable of integrating quantitative data and qualitative assessments in order to support decisions on investment, industrial establishment, and commercial development.
Introduction by President Giulio Bertola
Executive Summary Romania provides, for the first half of 2026, a structured and comparable reading of the main factors affecting the country’s competitiveness: political and regulatory stability, human capital, the financial system, infrastructure, innovation, energy sustainability, and economic relations.
The objective is not only to analyze macroeconomic data, but to understand how these variables concretely influence the ability of Italian companies to invest, create value, and grow in Romania.
After more than twenty-five years of direct experience in the country, it is clear that competitiveness does not depend solely on costs or available incentives, but on the quality of the overall ecosystem in which companies operate: regulatory stability, institutional reliability, qualified human capital, infrastructure, and innovation capacity.
Over time, Romania has consolidated its role as an industrial platform integrated into the European economic space. However, in the first half of 2026, the picture appears more complex: alongside infrastructure modernization, the strengthening of the education system, and the technological transition, political instability has emerged as an additional challenge, affecting regulatory, fiscal, and policy predictability.
This Executive Summary aims to provide an objective, concise, and action-oriented tool to support Italian companies in their decisions on growth, investment, and competitive consolidation.
Executive Summary Romania
Primo semestre 2026
Information note
For each area, quantitative indicators from authoritative national and international statistical sources are used, including:
- World Bank (Political Stability Index, Logistics Performance Index)
- OECD (Country Risk Classification, educational indicators, and PISA)
- Eurostat (labour market, R&D, energy, trade)
- INS Romania (macroeconomic data, wages, construction, tourism)
- National Bank of Romania – BNR (inflation, banking system, foreign direct investment)
- ISTAT (Italy–Romania trade exchange)
- European Commission (DESI – Digital Economy and Society Index)
The indicators are selected according to criteria of economic relevance, international comparability, periodic updating, and the methodological robustness of the sources.
The collected data are normalised on a 1–100 scale in order to enable the construction of the FPIAR Monitor, which provides a comparable synthesis of the country’s performance across the various dimensions analysed.
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