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Finance Minister Nazare: U.S. interest focuses on strategic areas - infrastructure, energy, technology, healthcare

October 9, 2025

American investors are interested in strategic areas such as infrastructure, energy, technology and healthcare, Finance Minister Alexandru Nazare announced after meeting in Washington with representatives of the U.S. Department of Commerce as well as of the financial-banking sector."One of the most important meetings I had these days in Washington was at the U.S. Department of Commerce, in particular with representatives of the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) - a specialized structure that supports partner countries in legislative and institutional reforms aimed at improving the business environment, investment and trade. The meeting has a special relevance as it marks the strengthening of dialogue with the new administration in Washington, at a time when Romania has not had, recently, official contacts at this level. I presented the investment opportunities that Romania offers, especially through public-private partnerships, and the American interest focused on several strategic fields: infrastructure - modernization of transport and logistics networks; energy - diversification and energy security; technology - innovation and digitalization; healthcare - hospitals and critical infrastructure," the minister wrote on his Facebook page.He stressed that, for Romania, this opening means more than capital and know-how, namely the consolidation of the economic partnership with the United States, the prospect of new investments and jobs, and the confirmation of the country's position as a strategic and reliable partner in the region.The Finance Minister also specified that representatives of the U.S. Department of Commerce will organize in Bucharest, over the next three months, several events to support Romania in attracting investment. He also pointed out that this is the first visit to Washington at ministerial level since November last year."I had contacts both with institutional partners, with the Department of Commerce, and with the financial-banking sector, which is extremely important for the Ministry of Finance. At the Department of Commerce it was a meeting in which we practically resumed the relationship with them, a relationship we have built over the past two years through events both in Europe and in the U.S. on investment projects, on PPPs, on attracting foreign investment. It is practically a new stage, but much stronger, in which, from the position of minister, we can continue these projects at a much higher level. In the next three months they will take part in several events they will organize in Bucharest, at the Ministry of Finance, precisely to help us attract investment and bring their expertise, so important for these complex public-private partnership projects that we need, first of all because they can bring other investors to Romania. Once we have identified projects, they are the ones who will also bring the capital, to invest, to come and take part in such projects in public-private partnership," Alexandru Nazare said.

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