3 Iunie 2010
Top 10 most attractive European countries to investors
In 2009, Romania recorded a significant drop in the number of investment projects (-48%) and in the number of jobs created (-44%). Europe’s economic powerhouses have coped pretty well in terms of their capacity to attract foreign direct investments in 2009, according to Ernst&Young’s European Attractiveness Survey.
United Kingdom
The number of FDI projects in the country fell by merely 1% to 678, and attracted 16% of the jobs created by FDI across Europe (20,017).
France
The survey found a contrasted framework on the origin of FDI projects. United States, that still brings a third of total FDI projects in Europe, recorded a decline both in absolute value and as percentage, same as in Germany, UK, France and Japan that account collectively around 25% of number of FDI.
Germany
FDIs in Germany created approximately 4,928 jobs last year.
Spain
Ireland and Spain that so far have been on investors’ hot spot list, have suffered a deep recession in 2009 and FDI projects decline in these countries was no surprise.
Russia
On a long term, investors see Central and Eastern Europe as a priority. The region is seen by investors (59% of the respondents) as the third most attractive country to do business in the next three years, outranked only by China (66%) and India (61%).
Belgium
Large European economies have coped pretty well in terms of their capacity to attract foreign investments in 2009, according to Ernst & Young survey.
The Netherlands
Poland
Poland, Hungary, Germany and Czech Republic have been the hardest hit countries by recession, where the aggregate FDI slumped 40% , as investors preferred the stability in Western countries.
Italy
Apart from the analysis on foreign-direct investment projects for last year, the European Attractiveness Survey also looks at the potential performance of FDI inflows, based on the survey of 800 managers.
Even though half of the investors surveyed say they have no plans to invest in Europe, Marc Lhermitte shows in the report that the investment environment has been showing signs of recovery for 12 months.
Ireland
Romania
Romania only attracted 75 FDI projects in 2009, 2% of the total in Europe, but reaped 6,384 jobs, 5% of the European total. Despite both the number of projects and job creation falling by more than 40%, Romania remained highly attractive for industrial services, stable at around 7% of the European total.
By the number of FDI projects, Romania outranked Switzerland, Hungary, Sweden and Austria.