Highlights of the most important roundtable of the year: The Economist Romanian Business & Investment Roundtable

The Fifth The Economist Romanian Business & Investment Roundtable highlighted the critical importance of increasing Romania’s competitiveness to ensure a sustainable and future-ready economy. What all decision makers present at the event seemed to agree upon was the fact that the key to overcoming critical challenges such as economic growth, labor shortages, and investment diversification lies in the collaborative efforts between the private and public sectors.

“People have finally understood that digitization is like a tidal wave—it raises all boats or sinks all boats. It is now the platform on which we drive productivity in the economy as a whole. If we look at the productivity numbers of Europe and the United States, we see that the gap is just increasing between us and the US. And Europe is falling behind. We will never catch u...