... , which have settled around 1 billion US- dol-lar per annum since 1999, are at a disappointingly low level measured against the eco-nomic potential of the country and its comparatively large market. They even dropped below 156 million during the first six month of 2003, which is even less that the fig-ures registered during the same period of the previous year ... businesses. They cannot follow the optimism of the Nastase government, which expects that Romania, as the last of the candidate countries to the EU, be granted the status of a functional market economy" in the upcoming country ...

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