The President of Romania thursday blamed the heads of thebiggest local companies during a debate on the reboot of theRomanian economy for having turned the failure to pay taxes or thehiring of black market workforce into a usual practice for thebusiness environment.
Before almost 200 businesspeople, foreign investors and managers ofthe biggest local companies, President Băsescu yesterday sat at thesame table as Mariana Gheorghe, the head of the biggest company inRomania, Petrom, and Dominic Bruynseels, BCR's chief executive;this was one of the few opportunities he has ever givenbusinesspeople to ask him questions. They, however, were not reallyincisive in their discussion with the head of state.
Jean Valvis, the Greek-born Swiss businessman, who has built twopowerful Romanian brands, Dorna and LaDorna Lactate, told thePresident that predictability and strategy were what every investornaturally needed.
"We ask for strategies and would like to be your partners indevising them. I have been asking for an agricultural strategy thatRomania does not have for 16 years now, a sector for which itshould have a long-term strategy," Valvis said during the"Partnership for growth in 2011" conference organised by ZiarulFinanciar and Foreign Investor Council yesterday.
Băsescu replied by saying that people frequently demanded adevelopment strategy for Romania and he, in his position aspresident of the state, was not in favour of creating a newdevelopment strategy because Romania already had a medium andlong-term plan agreed upon, which could be seen in the sevenoperational programmes and in the funding for agriculture.
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