Romania can stand out in exports through the food and energy industries, the president of the Romania's Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIR), Mihai Daraban declared on Tuesday.
"We cannot talk about microchips. I still believe that Romania's future will be, especially in terms of exports, towards the food industry on the one hand and the megawatt on the other. I believe that the megawatt will be the Romanian product with significant added value, because, for better or worse, we have an energy base. As it is, it exists, and there are prospects for improvement", Mihai Daraban told the conference 'The Need for Restructuring and Reconstruction of the Romanian National Economy in a Changing World', organized by the Association for Economic and Social Studies and Forecasts (ASPES).
He mentioned that, according to Eurostat data, Romania ranks last in innovation and research, and in these conditions we cannot think about the future of the economy based on the export of IT products, microchips and semiconductors, but will have to "come with our feet on the ground".
Mihai Daraban emphasized that the food industry will have to represent a basic pillar of the Romanian economy in the future, but here the problem is land fragmentation. According to him, 578,000 farmers own agricultural areas between 1 and 5 hectares, and 178,000 have land plots between 5 and 30 hectares.
The president of the CCIR also spoke during the conference about the importance of dialogue between political decision-makers and business people.
"I am somewhat pessimistic that our message, the message of business people, what will be discussed here, will be taken up by the current political decision-makers. Both at the CCIR level and at the ASPES level, we have found that business people who run powerful companies are not invited to the dialogue table. Each time I have argued that things should not be mixed up. A dialogue must be held by business categories, because the requirements of large and very large enterprises are completely different from those of micro-enterprises. The state should not mimic such a dialogue just for the sake of the press or a group photo, and the economic data that the same state provides annually should not remain unprocessed. We must start from the reality on the ground, and the data that the Chamber System analyzes every year does not look bad at all. I can tell you, therefore, that for 2023, 917,881 companies submitted their financial statements, with 51 companies more than in the previous year. There is an increase in turnover of over 37 billion euros, from 490 billion euros in 2022 to 527.89 billion euros in 2023. Indeed, profit stagnated somewhere at 53.28 billion euros, this being caused more by the dividend tax which will certainly influence this indicator in the future. In conclusion, the business environment should not be provoked by the political decision-maker, but left to do its job, because, as we see, it is doing it very well", pointed out the president of the CCIR, Mihai Daraban.
The president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (CCIR), Mihai Daraban, participated on Tuesday in the conference "The Need for Restructuring and Reconstruction of the Romanian National Economy in a Changing World", organized by the National Bank of Romania (BNR) and the Association for Economic and Social Studies and Forecasts (ASPES), according to a press release from the CCIR.
The conference aimed to discuss the most important challenges in the Romanian economy and, at the same time, to identify the main directions through which a Romanian economic model can be achieved within the European Union.
The National News Agency AGERPRES is the media partner of the event.
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