This year will be one of the investments in Romania, and at the same time the local small and medium-sized enterprises are affected by the fact that they do not belong to the Schengen area, Minister for Business Milieu, Commerce and Entrepreneurship Stefan Radu Oprea told a Wednesday's specialist forum.
"What are the measures that we are proposing? Start-Up Nation is addressed both to those who are in Romania and to those who have gone to Italy and who, in my view, through the entrepreneurial spirit have taken the risk of leaving the country. They have learned a qualification, they have learned what it means to work in Italy, because the backbone of the industry is represented by the number and quality of small and medium-sized enterprises. At the Ministry for Business Milieu, Commerce and Entrepreneurship there is also Invest Romania. We are working in the Government of Romania to relaunch new pilot projects through which there is the possibility of subsidizing the firms that hire new workers, which is also valid for the Romanians in Italy and for Italian capital companies that are in Romania today. Here, we have a permanent dialogue with investors, and I want this to happen with Italian investors as well, the minister said.
The Confindustria Romania Employers' Union is organizing on Wednesday the "Both Worlds 2018" Economic Forum under the motto "People & Work".