* The government is optimistic: 6 billion Euros in foreign investments

The Romanian authorities are more than optimistic, as they expect an increased inflow of direct foreign investments in 2010 over the previous year. The official forecast of the Ministry of the Economy and Trade is that Romania will draw approximately 6 billion Euros in direct foreign investments this year, due to its infrastructure and the fact that VAT and the flat tax rate haven"t been raised.

* Angela Merkel, Germany" chancellor, may attend the inauguration of the EUR 45 million factory

* Germans are looking to build a high-skill training center for Ghimbav specialists

One of the most important investment projects in Romania - "Airbus" - , will be completed in October, when production of the first Romanian-made Airbus parts is scheduled to begin.

In order to celebrate this moment, German chancellor, Angela Merkel, may attend the inauguration of the factory, which will produce spare parts for Airbus A 320 airplanes.

Dieter Meiners, COO of Premium Aerotec GmbH and CEO of Premium Aerotec SRL, the company which is supervising the investment in Ghimbav (Braşov), last week attended a meeting with the officials of the county of Braşov.

Also present was Hans Losinger, CEO of Premium Aerotec GmbH, who said he was "pleasantly surprised" about the support his company received in getting the project started, on a national and on a local level. "Without the support of the authorities, this project would have been very difficult to launch or may not have gotten off the ground at all", said Losinger.

Germans said that they picked the Ghimbav location in particular because it has experienced workers, which could be used effectively, allowing them to create quality products at an optimum cost.

The mayor of Braşov, George Scripcaru, stressed that the