“Romania can only have a durable growth with majority Romanian capital and, of course, with the support of foreign investments. No country can grow only with foreign investments,” Parvan told MEDIAFAX Talks about SMEs conference.
Parvan also mentioned several reports of Ziarul Financiar according to which 200,000 companies in Romania have zero turnover.
“We granted EUR600 million state aid in the last years, out of which 90% to multinationals. I have nothing against multinationals, but we granted state aid to investments which created 3,600-6,000 jobs and only EUR20 million to debuting entrepreneurs, which created 15,000 companies and 30,000 jobs. (…) We cannot change the public policy but government can set up certain frameworks when grating state aid based on the number of SMEs attracted as suppliers by these investments,” Parvan added.
In his opinion, this way state aid will also be used for SMEs producing various products and subassemblies, thus they would be integrated in the economic system.