Wieczorek said the company plans a long term strategy in Romania, with its first project here to be developed in 2012 in capital Bucharest.

According to Wieczrek, the company will start as an office developer using its own money and afterward will enter public-private partnerships.

Skanska currently develops projects in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovakia, Ukraine, the UK, the U.S. and in several countries in South America. The company laid off over 10,000 employees between 2007 and 2010, impacted by the economic crisis.

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