Romania’s objective is to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2026, the Secretary General of the Government, Mircea Abrudean, said at the Forum of Small Towns in Romania.

He emphasised that, after Romania’s accession to the European Union and NATO, integration into the OECD is „the most important country objective,” and, when our country will become a member of this organization, „small towns will be able to benefit directly from the expertise and know-how of cities from other member states” and „they will be able to take from the methods and solutions of innovative public services.”

„The greatest benefit of joining the OECD is represented by foreign direct investments. Any investor will have the guarantee of a performing economy and an administration at the highest standards of efficiency. You need investments the most, because they bring development, jobs of work and well-being,” said Abrudean.

On the other hand, he believes that „too little is said in Romania” about the subject of joining the OECD, even though it is about „an elite club of world economies.”

„We are talking about 38 countries, with the world’s strongest economies, which, together, represent over 70% of global trade and services and over 90% of foreign direct investments. (…) To make a idea of what the credibility and guarantee of OECD standards means for investors, Romania officially opened the process of joining this forum in January 2022. The total of foreign direct investments in 2022 was almost 11 billion euros, a record figure, higher by two billion euros than in 2008, the historical year of reference until that moment, for foreign direct investments,” added the Secretary General of the Government.

AGERPRES