Businesspeople in Romania see the United Arab Emirates (EAU) as a bridge towards emerging markets in the entire world, and especially in the Middle East, especially as the Western world will provide increasingly fewer opportunities for business and growth in the coming 10-20 years.
Geographically, the United Arab Emirates are located in area which is easily and quickly accessible through several airlines, including FlyDubai, the low-cost company with the quickest and most impressive development in the last decades, in terms of the number of destinations and the flow of passengers. Pragmatically focused on destinations which have potential for business, FlyDubai entered the Romanian market in October 2012, precisely because it has intuited the potential of the Romanian private sector, as clearly proven by the formal and informal discussions with FlyDubai officials.
The people in the Emirates like Romania and have praised Romania and its resources, including the human resource. The problem they face, however, is the excessive bureaucracy from the authorities, the complicated and difficult circuits when it comes to concluding certain businesses, and certain obsolete practices of the authorities which are in charge of issuing the documents necessary for initiating a business, and these things often discourage the people of the Emirates and cause them to leave. The businesspeople of the Emirates expect businesses to be guaranteed by the Romanian state, just like it happens in the United Arab Emirates. Unfortunately, the often complicated and unclear communication style of the Romanian authorities and the lack of knowledge when it comes to business culture, concerning the manners needed in the interaction with the oriental world, cause many businesses to fail, as proven from the subtle observations that some businesspeople from the Emirates make, in informal d