Other global risks identified by Romanian businessmen are political and social instability, neglecting infrastructure and interstate conflicts with regional consequences.
Other countries in the region, such as Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia or Poland, also identified similar risks as the biggest global risks.
In the Republic of Moldova, the main risks are considered to be political and social instability and interstate conflict with regional consequences, while in Ukraine, the main global risks are fiscal crises of key economies, followed by political and social instability and interstate conflicts, according to Marsh.
The risk of international conflict is the biggest threat to the stability of the world over the next 10 years, according to the Global Risks 2015 report.
The top five global risks by likelihood are: interstate conflict, extreme weather events, failure of national governance, state collapse or crisis and unemployment or underemployment.
In terms of impact, the top five risks are: water crises, spread of infectious disease, weapons of mass destruction, interstate conflict, failure of climate-change adaptation.
Global Risks 2015 report was conducted with partners Marsh &McLennan Companies and Zurich Insurance Group, with the collaboration of academic advisers National University of Singapore, the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania, and the Advisory Board of the report.