Bravo Cluj!

‘Nokia effect’ lures investors to Romania

More than 2,000 Germans lost their jobs when Nokia shifted its Bochum plant to Romania in 2008. While German politicians cried foul, the city of Cluj hoped for an economic upswing. What’s the situation there like today?

 

Election campaigns often bring out the best and the worst in politicians.

In 2009 Christian Democrat Juergen Ruettgers found himself struggling to defend his leadership of the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia.

As the global financial crisis unfolded, his government had been unable to convince Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia to keep producing in Bochum instead of moving operations to Romania.

In an attempt to highlight his state’s (restul aici)



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