Direct investments of Italian companies in Romania amount to approximately 8.15 billion euros, the secretary general of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIR), Ovidiu Silaghi, told a specialized seminar on Tuesday."We can notice an important increase in the volume of goods traded between Romania and Italy, starting in 2020. Now we are at approximately 20 billion euros, in three years. Of course, the bad news for Romania is that it recorded a trade deficit of approximately one billion euros, a huge volume. The direct investments of Italian companies amount to about 8.15 billion euros. Also, Romania has the largest stock of direct foreign investments from Italy. due to our cultural heritage, but also from a linguistic point of view, I have good reasons to be optimistic about the future. The Chamber of Commerce is always and will always be open for joint projects with Italian companies, but also with the Italian Embassy in Romania in order to develop solid bilateral ties in the future," said Silaghi.The Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in partnership with the Italian Embassy in Romania, is organizing, on Tuesday, the economic seminar entitled "The role of Italian investments and trade in the development of the Romanian economy".On this occasion, the study carried out by the Italian Embassy in Bucharest, in collaboration with the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, by the research team of the Romanian Economic Monitor (Monitorului Economic Român/FSEGA), will be presented, which analyzes the contribution and evolution of the presence Italian economy in Romania in the period 2013-2023.
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