In 1848, when the European financial lending system was in collapse, cholera was wreaking havoc, crops were destroyed and the urban proletarians were demanding their rights, Karl Marx launched a phrase in the Manifesto of the Communist Party that went on to become one of the most famous slogans of the world: "Proletarians of all countries, unite! " One hundred and sixty two years later, this slogan should be adjusted to the Romanian realities, but set on the other side of the barricade: "Romanian capitalists, regardless of whether you are big or small entrepreneurs, managers of companies or Romanian shareholders or CEOs of multinationals, unite!" These are hard times, but you have to hang in there, to survive, you must not abandon your businesses, your brands, your employees, everything you have built, because you can no longer take it financially and mentally, because you have grown tired of fighting the market decline, the lack of customers, the lack of cash, the banks raising your interest rates when they should cut them, those that owe money to you, but also those you owe money to, the employees whose salaries you have to cut or whom you even have to fire, the state, which instead of cutting your taxes raises them or the politicians and the public servants who ask you for 'money" because you can afford to give it.

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However, now, more than ever, the business sector has to unite to no longer allow the Government to reach that position where to raise taxes, to come to the private sector to collect money as the state apparatus cannot be restructured on time because there have been either parliamentary or presidential elections.

Romanian capitalists, unite! You have to hang in there through this difficult time. Do not let businesses collapse, although you feel you cannot muster the energy to navigate this period.

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