Vladescu to economic advisers working abroad: Please get the country out of the crisis

Romania is not very likely to experience solid economic growth in the long run without a solid increase in exports, believes Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu.
He asked Romanian economic advisers working abroad to stop being arrogant and treat all Romanian entrepreneurs equally, "like people who are trying to do their job", in order to help revive exports and lift Romania out of the crisis.
"Please get Romania out of the crisis, without solid exports we have no chance. (...) Please show some courage and fight for Romanian companies."
Romania has 130 economic advisers in 74 countries, whose role is to promote Romania's foreign economic relations in order to attract foreign investments, develop commercial exchanges - mainly exports, and help Romanian businesspeople gain access to foreign markets.
Vladescu expressed regret that for a large part of the Romanian economy, economic advisers representing Romania abroad are non-existent, and that this precludes a large part of the Romanian economy from being connected to foreign markets.
Last year exports fell by 13.9% against 2008 to 29 billion euros. For this year the government expects exports to rise by 3.5%, which is considered unrealistic by some exporters.