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Foreign investors require the privatisation of companies

«Over the last two years, Romania followed the same trend, of dropping, as in the area of Central and Eastern Europe as regards investment. We notice that at least in Q1 the trend of dropping is kept, but we are optimistic as regards the perspectives of Romania to draw the attention of investors.

We are confident that Romania will succeed in getting back on the trend of economic growth, important factor for investors » the executive secretary of the Council for Foreign Investors (CIS) Doina Ciomag said for Mediafax. According to her opinion, another thing to give confidence to investors is fiscal stability, as a result of IMF and EU agreements.

Romania could an attractive destination from the point of view of foreign investments, existing the premises for consistent growth of GDP, and the solution to problems connected to infrastructure and companies privatisation would contribute to the positive evolution of the economy, investors believe.

« At the same time, the amendment to work legislation is an important element in investors' calculations » Ciomag added. To have sustained economic growth, CIS made a series of recommendations to the authorities, among which the solution to problems connected to infrastructure, agriculture, capital market and state companies.

« The problem of infrastructure is important when it comes to investments. Romania must prioritise investment programmes in infrastructure, to have a plan for these projects, so that the finalisation of projects to lead to economic growth. Another sector with potential for generating economic growth is the capital market and in strong connection with the solution of the problems of state companies. The privatisation of companies, with performances under expectations, could generate a plus of economic growth » Ciomag said.

In his opinion, Romania has potential from the point of view of foreign investment can be an attractive destination in the next period.

« We think that Romania will manage in 2011 – 2012 to have a sustained economic growth so that estimates of 1.5 – 2% to be overcome by the performances of economy » the CIS representative, one of the most important structure of foreign investors in Romania.

In his turn, Sorin Vasilescu, the manager of Department for investment in the Romanian Centre for the Promotion of Commerce and Foreign Investment (CRPCIS), showed that the unique quota is an element of drawing investors, together with the decrease of the ceiling for state aids from 30 million euro, 100 million euro respectively to 5 million euro.

« To have a bigger volume of investments we need to create industrial parks, this being the authorities' duty, we need infrastructure to allow investors to place their business in Romania and to facilitate export » Vasilescu explained.

Over the first five months of the year foreign direct investment were worth 799 million euro, dropping by 23.3% against the similar period of 2009.

BNR reported for last year foreign direct investment of 2.596 billion euro, dropping by 25.57% against 2009, when there was a level of 3.488 billion euro.

For this year, the authorities estimate investments of 3.5 – 4 billion euro.

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