Romania vs. Poland business score: 3 to 567

Over 560 Polish investors have businesses in Romania, while in Poland there are only three Romanian companies at present, two of which have only offices.

“Romanians are not coming to Poland as they do not know the market and the opportunities it offers. Moreover, they are not interested in getting to know the market, which they automatically include in the category of former communist markets. Romanians prefer going to Western countries such as Spain and France or to the Middle East,” Gabriel Costache, a representative of Romania’s embassy in Warsaw, explained for ZF.
In the first nine months of this year, Polish companies brought around 108m euros on the Romanian market.
“No new investor has arrived in Poland lately. The Polish are more interested in Romania than we are in Poland. There are three Romanian investors here, two of which have only offices and another one has a partnership with a domestic company for natural gas exploration,” Costache stated.