Publicat pe 23/09/2025

Bucharest, September 23, 2025: The President of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIR), Mr. Mihai Daraban, participated on September 23 in the conference “The Need for Restructuring and Reconstruction of the Romanian National Economy in a Changing World,” organized by the National Bank of Romania (BNR) and the Association for Economic and Social Studies and Forecasts (ASPES).

The conference aimed to bring into discussion the most important challenges in the Romanian economy and, at the same time, identify the main directions through which a Romanian economic model within the European Union can be achieved.

In opening the event, CCIR President Mr. Mihai Daraban wanted to emphasize the importance of dialogue between political decision-makers and businesspeople. “I am somewhat pessimistic that our message, the message of businesspeople, what will be discussed here, will be taken up by current political decision-makers. Both at CCIR level and at ASPES level, we have found that businesspeople who run strong companies are not invited to the dialogue table. I have always maintained that things should not be mixed up. A dialogue must be supported by business categories, because the requirements of large and very large enterprises are completely different from those of micro-enterprises. The state should not mime such dialogue just for the sake of the press or a group photo, and the economic data that the same state provides annually should not remain unprocessed. We must start from the reality in the field, and the data that the Chamber System analyzes every year does not look bad at all. I can tell you that for 2023, 917,881 companies submitted their financial balance sheet, 51 companies more than the previous year. There is a turnover increase of over 37 billion euros, from 490 billion euros in 2022 to 527.89 billion euros in 2023. Indeed, profit stagnated somewhere at 53.28 billion euros, this being caused more by the dividend tax which will certainly influence this indicator in the future as well. In conclusion, the business environment should not be challenged by political decision-makers, but allowed to do its job, because, as we can see, it does it very well,” stated Mihai Daraban.

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