AGERPRES correspondent Doroteea Purcarea reports: Chancellor Angela Merkel says German-Romanian economic relations should get a boost this spring, if Romania further improves its judiciary system and fights corruption.
“This spring we will have several activities to boost the economic relations. There is a condition, however — and we discussed it [with Romania’s Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos]: the legal system, the judiciary system must be further improved, and corruption must be combatted. There were some considerable successes lately, and Mr. Dacian Ciolos’s government (…) is working vigorously on this task, which is a very important condition,” Chancellor Merkel asserted in a joint press conference with the Romanian prime minister.
On the same occasion, PM Ciolos said that “Germany is a partner of strategic importance for Romania.” “Germany is Romania’s first economic partner, with 20 percent of Romania’s trade, over 20 billion euros per year. (…) We have discussed the priorities of my cabinet for this year, which focus firstly on reforming the administration and making it more efficient, on a vision of long-term economic development and on the maximum possible predictability in terms of legislation, taxes and finances,” the prime minister declared. More…