foreign direct investments: Austria -> Romania

This is one of those posts with statistics about Romania's commercial relationships with other CEE countries - Austria, to be more specific.

The source for this statistics is this study released by the Commercial Service of the Austrian Embassy in Romania:

• Austria is the second foreign investor in Romania, after The Netherlands
• more than 1,000 active Austrian investors are present in Romania
• Austrian investment amounts for 9.35 BLN Eur and represents 18% of the FDI in Romania
• more than 6,100 companies with Austrian equity are established in Romania
• these companies employ over 100,000 people
• main sectors are: Resources | Agriculture | Industry | Services
• Austria is market leader in Banking and Insurance
• Austria is Top Investor in CEE: Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia.

allow me to multinationally introduce

This one's going to have lots and lots of figures, but bear with me, as I realized I've never properly introduced Romania's international business environment to my readers.

Let's start on a positive note from E&Y, with Romania being the 6^th most attractive European country for investors in the next 3 years [Ernst & Young - 2012 European Attractiveness Survey].

Looks like business leaders across the world consider Romania to be  a valuable destination for investments.