Ramona Jurubita, the President of the Foreign Investors Council (FIC), said during the opening panel of BR’s Foreign Investors Summit on Tuesday that Romania is missing its targets in terms of foreign investments, but also that the country’s targets are unclear in some areas.
“At the FIC and other organisations I am part of, we look at three main pillars to evaluate the country: infrastructure, demographics, and efficiency. The infrastructure is in poor state and there is a huge need for investments. But education and healthcare are the main reasons why people are leaving the country.
The education system is deficient, while the health system does not provide the best services for the population. These are the reasons why the younger generations are leaving and looking for better places to live. Also, when we talk about efficiency, we can see that the public sector, the administrative sector is completely lacking. We’re at the top of EU rankings in terms of digital infrastructure, we lack digitalization in the administrative sector,” Jurubita said.
Jurubita added that the different parts of Romania need to come together and have better collaboration in order for the country to have better results.
“The private sector, the public sector and academia are entirely disconnected from each other, and this is something that must change in order for the country to come up with long-term objectives and keep them in sight.
Foreign investors come to Romania, they stop to talk to us, but then they decide to leave. We need to find ways to convince them to stay in Romania.”