Publicat pe 26/09/2017

Bucharest, September, 26th, 2017: The President of CCIR, Mr. Mihai Daraban, was on Tuesday, September 26th, 2017, present in DC NEWS TV set. In the interview, Mr. Daraban spoke about the course of the Romanian economy and the CCIR strategy to support the business environment.
“The great advantage of this institution (CCIR) is that it is a brand that is found in 40,000 locations in the world. (…) We should have a more important role, but in these 27 years I have had the impression that the Chamber of Commerce and the Stock Exchange have been institutions that have been set up strictly on the Western model because they were in other locations, not being used none of them to true value”, said the President of CCIR.

Also, Mr. Daraban specified that “we have a fragile business environment, a business environment characterized by the existence of many micro-enterprises. When I say micro-enterprise, we need to think of up to nine employees and a maximum of two million Euros in turnover. There are 602,996 micro-enterprises in Romania, of the 661,553 who have submitted the balance sheet, we have 1,867 large and very large companies, here we introduce all Romanian and foreign companies. We have 8,895 medium-sized businesses and 47,695 small businesses”.

“We are trying to internationalize the Romanian business, because, unfortunately, we are very sorry for what is meant by foreign trade outside the EU. 70% of our intra-EU trade is to EU countries, 15% to European countries still non-EU and 15% to the rest of the planet. When we say that we are the last in the EU to research innovation, we need to be aware that the Romanian brand itself, the Romanian product, is totally lacking. I refer to that product where at least 50% of its value is Romanian input of material, know-how, why do you want Eurostat says we are the last place in research-innovation, they say we are in the penultimate place at labor productivity and the last place to administrative digitization”, said CCIR president.

Watch the full interview: