Romanian Chamber of Commerce

President Klaus Iohannis says that forecasts show that 2021 bodes well for Romania's economic rebound and that our country is on par with France in the EU's ranking by the estimated economic growth. "2020 was for the entire planet the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a period during which the economies of all states experienced an unprecedented crisis.

Israel managed to fully open up the economy earlier this week, with the help of an intensive vaccination campaign and an application that allowed immunized people to have access to public places everywhere, Ohan Cohen, head of the Foreign Trade Administration at the Israeli Ministry of Economy, told AGERPRES in an interview.

Romania's exports to Japan increased by 62% in November 2020 y-o-y thanks to the European Union-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), which entered into force on February 1, 2019, Chairman of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIR) Mihai Daraban said at a meeting with Director General of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) Romania Keisuke Mizuno.

President Klaus Iohannis stated on Thursday that the former Government left a budgetary deficit of 29 billion and underscored the need for firm and efficient policies, to get the economy and public finances back on track, back to balance and sustainability.

Premier-designate Ludovic Orban met on Thursday with the president of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIR), Mihai Daraban, with the two looking at the economic situation and discussing the business milieu's expectations of the future government.

Start Export is the project I propose you for this year, a programme designed to develop according to the needs of the business environment, which will be based on three important pillars, Stefan-Radu Oprea, the Minister for Business Environment, Trade and Entrepreneurship, told a specialized forum on Tuesday.

President Klaus Iohannis on Monday welcomed at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace the Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, in which context he showed this country is one of the traditional economic partners of Romania in South-East Asia and encouraged an increase in trade exchanges between Romania and Vietnam.

Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu and his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sultan Al Jaber signed on Tuesday in Bucharest, the memorandum of understanding regarding the setting up of a cooperation committee between the two countries, a body that will regularly meet every two years.

Projects we would like to draw in the automotive industry no longer relies on cheap labour force, given that in 2017, a quarter of the total national exports was generated by this industry, Paula Pirvanescu, Secretary of State InvestRomania with the Ministry of Business Milieu, Commerce and Entrepreneurship told on Monday a specialty press conference.

A Bucharest court on Thursday jailed Mihai Vlasov, president of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce, CRCI, for five years after he was caught red handed receiving a 200,000 euro bribe.

The money he received from a businessman was allegedly the first tranche of 1 million euro - payment for his intervention at the Court of Arbitrage, which works under the CRCI's umbrella.