Message from the President of CAPDR, Ion Ștefanovici, delivered on the occasion of the working meeting “Consultation of the business environment in defining the RO–MD development strategies for 2026–2035”

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Message from the President of CAPDR, Ion Ștefanovici, delivered on the occasion of the working meeting “Consultation of the business environment in defining the RO–MD development strategies for 2026–2035”

100 economic opportunities for the development of the Moldova Region on the A7 Highway route

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Distinguished partners from Romania, the Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine, representatives of public administration, the economic environment, regional development structures, and professional organizations,

I would like to thank you for your presence and for your willingness to actively contribute to this stage of regional consultation organized by CAPDR together with the Chișinău Regional Development Agency, in partnership with the Iași Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Today’s event marks an important milestone in strengthening the strategic cooperation between Romania and the Republic of Moldova.

In recent months, through applied consultations, working meetings, and direct engagement with public administrations, companies, universities, experts, and professional organizations from both states, the direction in which the common Romania–Republic of Moldova space should be built for the period 2026–2035 has become increasingly clear.

The conclusion is essential: the future of the relationship between Romania and the Republic of Moldova is built through interconnection.

Road interconnection. Energy interconnection. Economic interconnection. Digital interconnection. Institutional interconnection. Educational and professional interconnection. Human interconnection.

The A7 motorway represents a strategic infrastructure for the Moldova Region and for its connection to European economic flows.

At the same time, the development of road connections between Romania and the Republic of Moldova is gaining increasing importance: bridges, modernized border crossing points, connecting roads, logistical connectivity, commercial corridors, and integrated infrastructure for the mobility of people and goods.

The same strategic logic applies to energy infrastructure.

Energy interconnections between Romania and the Republic of Moldova provide stability, predictability, and development capacity for the entire regional space.

In parallel, the upcoming period will bring an accelerated development of cooperation in education, vocational training, and healthcare.

Increasingly, institutions in Romania and the Republic of Moldova are developing: joint educational programs, university partnerships, vocational training projects, exchange programs, medical cooperation, and joint mechanisms for knowledge transfer.

This process generates institutional convergence, professional compatibility, and the strengthening of human capital across the Romania–Republic of Moldova space.

At the same time, we are witnessing a profound evolution at the social and economic level.

More and more Romanian citizens are acquiring citizenship of the Republic of Moldova, and increasingly many citizens of the Republic of Moldova are European citizens through Romanian citizenship.

This reality is developing a common space of economic, professional, and human mobility that will significantly influence the region’s evolution in the coming years.

For this reason, I believe that the upcoming period requires pragmatic instruments to support bilateral economic development.

One important example is the need to establish a guarantee and support fund for Romanian businesses investing in the Republic of Moldova.

Romanian capital can play a strategic role in strengthening the economy of the Republic of Moldova, in developing SMEs, in transferring expertise, and in accelerating European economic integration. In this architecture, the European Commission plays an essential role.

The Republic of Moldova is going through a historic stage of rapprochement and European integration. This path requires pragmatic support, predictability, administrative expertise, implementation capacity, and transfer of experience.

Romania has the capacity to actively contribute to this process through: specialists, institutions, universities, EU funding experts, technical consultancy, and administrative cooperation mechanisms.

Cooperation in the field of European funding will represent one of the most important dimensions of the 2026–2035 period. Romania’s accumulated experience in managing European funds can accelerate the institutional and economic capacity of the Republic of Moldova.

Equally, vocational training becomes a strategic infrastructure for regional development.

Human resource development, alignment of skills with the European economy, digitalization, project management, technical specialization, and the development of a new generation of regional professionals will directly influence the competitiveness of the Romania–Republic of Moldova space.

For this reason, CAPDR aims to consolidate a permanent platform of Romania–Republic of Moldova regional cooperation, capable of connecting: administrations, companies, universities, experts, consultants, professional organizations, and regional development structures.

The conclusions resulting from this consultation will be integrated into the process of substantiating the Romania–Moldova Sustainable Interconnection Program 2028–2034 – PISRM.

This program aims to develop a multiannual architecture of economic, institutional, and regional cooperation between the two states, aligned with the European Union’s strategic directions regarding competitiveness, connectivity, resilience, and regional development.

At the same time, this platform remains open to cooperation with Ukraine, particularly in the context of regional reconstruction and the emerging new economic axes in Eastern Europe.

Dear partners,

The upcoming period belongs to regions that generate: vision, coherence, projects, partnerships, and implementation capacity.

Our common role is to consolidate a regional critical mass that works in a coordinated, professional, and long-term manner.

Today we are strengthening working relationships. We are strengthening trust. We are strengthening the foundations of a new stage in the interregional development of Romania–Republic of Moldova.

Thank you for your involvement, openness, and contribution to this process.

I am confident that today’s dialogue will generate ideas, partnerships, and concrete directions of strategic relevance for the entire 2026–2035 period.

Thank you!

 

Ion ȘTEFANOVICI,

President of CAPDR

 

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