The volume of net investments in Romania, including buildings, equipment and other assets, including non-tangible assets, increased by 13.6% y/y in Q1 to RON30.07bn (over €6bn), the statistics office INS announced.

The money was invested particularly in new construction works (+16.9% y/y), which accounted for 60.9% of the total, up from 58.5% in the same period last year.

The investments in equipment (including transport means) increased by 9.6% y/y and accounted for roughly one-third (31.3% from 33.5% last year).

Other investments were 7.8% of the 11.2% more in volume terms compared to the same period the previous year.

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