The Romanian-Czech economic forum held in Bucharest
The Romanian-Czech economic forum held in Bucharest on Tuesday could be an opportunity to exceed 2.5 billion euro in commercial exchanges between Romania and the Czech Republic by boosting collaboration in the former joint Eastern cooperation, where connections were made between big enterprises, said Mircea Ionescu, the president of the National Association of exporters and importers in Romania(ANEIR).
“It is a forum between two countries which have complementary economies in many domains. This situation was inherited in communist times when these countries planned their economies. What gives us hope is the fact that we have the same target, the most rapid integration in the euro zone, which will give us big chances to increase the bilateral exchange volume. The European market is the main trade area,” said the ANEIR president.
He considers that there is potential for the over 100 Czech and Romanian companies participating in the Forum to identify new possibilities of cooperation in production,to develop joint investments, to cope with competition coming from Asia and other world areas, together.
“As president of the Export Council I had in view other countries in the former joint economic area. We are good and looked for not only in the Czech Republic in the software, electronic equipment and transport equipment areas. We sell railroad cabins manufactured at Astra Carriage Arad. In the farming sector we sell fruit and vegetables, produced in greenhouses, forest fruit or food supplements. We also have collaboration in electricity production. The Czechs came and installed wind fields but these installations were made from imports, without trying a partnership with Romanian companies, with manufacturing units in Romania,” said Mihai Ionescu.
As for the invitation addressed by the governor to Czech businessmen to come and try Romanian wines, Mihai Ionescu said that Mugur Isarescu had spoken not only as BNR governor, but also as producer.
The National Association of Exporters and Importers in Romania and the Czech embassy organized the Romanian-Czech Forum in the presence of Czech president Milos Zeman and other officials from the two countries.