In 5th place of the main investing countries in Romania ranks Greece for 2023 improving its position by three places in one year (compared to 8th place in 2022).

As stated in the Economic and Business Developments Bulletin for Romania prepared by the Office of Economic and Commercial Affairs (competent also for Moldova) of the Embassy of Greece in Bucharest and made public today, according to the recently announced data from the Romanian Commercial Registry Service (ONRC) for the whole of 2023, it appears that Greece is in 5th place in the relevant list (against 8th place in 2022), showing an increase in both invested capital and the number of registered businesses.

More in detail the total investments/FDI Stock in December 2023 in Romania reached 54.3 billion euros (against 52.3 billion euros in 2022, an increase of 3.8%), while the total number of companies with foreign capital participation reached 251,226 (compared to 244,215 in 2022, an increase of 7,011 businesses). Greece’s total investments/FDI Stock in Romania, during the same period, reached EUR 2.44 billion (versus EUR 1.5 billion in 2022, an increase of 59.5%, mainly due to the acquisition of Enel by PPC) representing 5% of the total (3.29% in 2022).

In the first 3 places the Netherlands with investments of 9.695 billion euros (20% of the total), Germany with 5.886 billion euros (12.15%) and Austria with 5.402 billion euros (11.15%).

At the same time, the number of Romanian companies with participation of Greek capital amounts to 8,624 representing 3.45% of the total (compared to 8,398 companies with a percentage of 3.42% of the total).