What can we learn from the war in Ukraine?
Foto: michaeldb / depositphotos.com We have all been appalled by the violence of the war in Ukraine. Nobody believed that such a thing could happen in Europe. At the time of writing, the war is not over and the outcome is uncertain. This terrible game of war as it is now unfolding, also reveals so […]
Business as usual – or not…
Author: Neil McGregor, Vice-Chair for Corporate Governance & relations with the British Chambers of Commerce, immediate Past Chair, BRCC Bucharest – 4 March 2022. TheBizz is a business publication, so I do not intend to expound on matters of politics and warfare here, other than to observe that the events of the last few days […]
Ana Blandiana, Ion Pop, Spyros Kokkinakis, Antonis Fostieris. ”Hellenic-Romanian poetic tetralogy”
The International Greek Language Day was celebrated by a unique experiment – two Romanian poets and two Greek poets participated with a selection of 15 poems each, reproduced both in their mother tongue and translated into Greek or Romanian. If so far 15 anthologies of Greek lyric poetry were published in Romania (starting with the […]
Ana Dumitrache, Country Head, CTP Romania: I strongly believe in the team strength, in the synergies that are created between colleagues. If we work well together and put passion into what we do, no target is unattainable
CTP is the largest developer and manager of modern industrial and logistics real estate in Romania and a leader at European level. How would you characterize the year 2021 in terms of business development at the local level? Ana Dumitrache, Country Head, CTP Romania: For us, the watchword in 2021 was ”expansion” in every way. […]
The hard part is still to come
Foto: rafapress / depositphotos.com Earlier this year, overjoyed officials in Bucharest had some long awaited piece of good news to deliver: the Council of the OECD finally decided to open accession talks with Romania. The 38 countries in the organization account for 18% of the world’s population, but for almost two thirds of the global […]
The story of an international success
Piet ter Schure, CEO of DMT In an international context dominated by Asian countries, the Romanian naval industry has succeeded in remaining a significant pillar in the economy, due to private investments in new technologies, qualified human resources, and increased production capacity. The high potential of this industry in Romania has been well noticed by […]
When troops move, finances shake
Foto: chaiyapruek / depositphotos.com Earlier this year, the economic daily Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that, although the globalization was supposed to prevent the war, Russia could now come to prove just the opposite. According to WSJ authors, the Russian leader Vladimir Putin allegedly bet that the Western allies would not be willing to pay […]
Defensive driving, a step towards normality
Foto: BecNorbert, Dragoș Savu Defensive driving courses have been part of the reality of other countries for more than 50 years. We, the Romanians, will discover them in an institutionalized form starting this year. Funny thing, I find a similarity between the current hysteria about vaccination and the defensive driving courses. Vaccination is not mandatory, […]
Mixed blessings
Foto: vladem / depositphotos.com 15 years ago, on January 1st 2007, Romania became a member of the European Union – a nice, round anniversary, prompting all sorts of festive messages. President Klaus Iohannis said that the accession to the EU anchored Romania in the European area of democracy and values and that the European path […]
2022… a better year?
A thrifty man makes a chariot in winter and a sledge in summer … or should we look around a bit, before making plans for the future, in order to avoid any surprise? Romania, Europe, Earth … in this order, I would like to do this little exercise to anticipate what the year 2022 will […]