Moldovan PM says problems can be solved only with joint efforts of government, business environment, civil society

Chisinau, 13 December /MOLDPRES/ - The close and productive relation between the government and the Foreign Investors’ Association (FIA) has been highlighted at a meeting between Prime Minister Pavel Filip and FIA members. The PM said that, from the first day of his mandate, he was set the cabinet to be a partner and a friend of the business environment and results had been achieved due to joint efforts, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.     

The economic indexes are on the rise and the cabinet has possibility to make social investments. “The capacity to make social investments appears when you have investors, when you have jobs, when you have where to collect money in the state budget from, money coming from taxes,” Pavel Filip said.   

At the same time, the prime minister also said that unsettled problems still remained and they can be solved only with the joint efforts of the government, business environment and civil society. “These problems can be overcome only when all of us go in one direction. I have made sure of this. When we discussed problems, when we together identified solutions, these reforms appeared, these cabinet decisions or laws appeared, which were subsequently approved and yielded results,” Pavel Filip stressed.  

The PM said that the direction in which the cabinet had set out would have continuity also after the parliamentary polls, due to the implementation of the government’s reform. “I am absolutely confident that, following this reform, we will switch to another management style in Moldova. The government due to come will not start from the beginning, but will lay brick after brick where the previous cabinet stopped.”

FIA president Alexander Koss appreciated the good cooperation with the governmental authorities, stressing that 70 per cent of the business environment’s proposals had been taken into account by the cabinet. Among them, there is also the de-monopolization of the medical services for the treatment of oncological diseases, which provides citizens’ access to quality services, including at private medical institutions.     

The Foreign Investors’ Association brings together the biggest foreign companies from Moldova, where 16,500 employees work. The overall sum of foreign companies’ investments in the Moldovan economy is of more than one billion euros.