“The government submitted the draft of the budgetary and fiscal policy for 2021 to the business environment’s representatives, including the FIA members, which represent the biggest enterprises in terms of turnovers and contributions to the State Budget. I assured the investors that the current government is guided by the principle: a friendly environment of development for business means bigger contributions to the budget. The decrease in taxes and the administrative pressure on the business allows collecting more financial resources which are so necessary for us now. Thus, the problems can be solved through dialogue, with joint efforts of the government and the business environment. Our goal is to ensure a fair environment of development for investors,’’ the PM said.

FIA president Alexander Koss highly appreciated the cooperation with the central authorities, stressing that the problems and needs of the business environment had been taken into account by the present cabinet. ‘’The Foreign Investors Association is apolitical and we want to improve the investment climate in Moldova, to attract more investors and provide more jobs. Twenty members of our association alone invested more than 1 billion 200 million dollars in the national economy and provide over 20,000 jobs. Thus, we bear a quite great social responsibility. We find out a very complicated period both for Moldova and the states from all over the world; therefore, we appreciate the government’s efforts in the settlement of the difficulties we are everybody facing.’’

The government organizes more meetings and consultations with the economic operators from various sectors, in order to jointly agree upon proposals on the draft of the budgetary and fiscal policy for the next year.

The Secretariat of the Economic Council to the Prime Minister is supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, funded by the UK Government’s Good Governance Fund, and the International Finance Corporation’s Investment Climate Reform Project funded by the Government of Sweden’s International Development Agency.