FIC: “An investment promotion body that ensures dialogue and consolidated data is essential for Romania”

The Foreign Investors Council (FIC) organized the event “Forum on investments” with the participation of the Prime Minister of Romania, Nicolae Ciuca, the Minister of Finance, Adrian Caciu, the Minister of Energy, Virgil Popescu, the Minister of Economy, Florin Spataru, and the Minister of Research, Innovation and Digitization, Minister Interim of European Projects and Investment, Marcel Bolos.

The FIC representatives highlighted that in these difficult times, member companies have provided humanitarian support and contributed financially, with products and services for the refugees from Ukraine. Equally, more attention must be paid for the economy by accelerating the measures for debureaucratization, digitization and attracting investment. Romania has the advantage of being an EU and NATO member state, which offers a sentiment of stability and affiliation with the common directions for sustainable economic growth.

During the event different options for promoting foreign investments in Romania were discussed, following the models of Poland or Czech Republic.

“It is necessary to have a system that offers investors easy access to information at the national and regional levels such as: available workforce, infrastructure, buildings and halls, suppliers, access to education and healthcare, etc. In the medium term, an investment promotion body that ensures dialogue and consolidated data is essential for Romania. Also, the business community and the relevant ministers addressed topics related to fiscal stability, supporting measures for the energy sector, unblocking legislative initiatives that introduce flexible digitization solutions and financial instruments available to the business community in the coming period. Last but not least, it was underlined the need to speed up the necessary measures for the implementation of the EU-funded projects, especially those under the National Recovery and Resilience Program,” a FIC release shows.