The end-December figure includes EUR 91.276 billion in long-term foreign debt, up by an annual 22.8%, BNR said. In a separate report, the Bucharest-based bank said that foreign direct investment (FDI) into Romania plummeted by 60% year-on-year in 2020, to EUR 1,921 million from EUR 4,849 million in 2019.
Equity investment, including estimated net reinvestment of earnings, amounted to a net value of EUR 3,953 million and inter-company lending recorded a net negative value of EUR 2,032 million at the end of December, the central bank said in a statement citing provisional data.