On May 30, at an operational meeting, the head of the Volyn Regional State Administration, Volodymyr Bondar, stated that everything would be done in the region so that foreign investments work for the economy, and officials know about automatic heating systems, – reported the own correspondent of the Western Information Corporation.
After a week-long trip to the land of Saxony (Germany), V. Bondar understood the reason for the slow arrival of foreign investments to Ukraine. It is the differences in the psychology of Ukrainians and Germans: "In the state, everything must be clearly worked out. An official in Germany exists to solve problems, not to create them." Here, according to the head of the Regional State Administration, an investor is viewed not as a filler of the budget, a creator of new jobs, but as a money bag.
As an example, he cited the wanderings through official offices of one German investor in Novovolynsk, to whom, instead of an automatic heating system, they offered to take seven stokers. "Do everything," V. Bondar said to the heads of regional services, "so that nowhere does anyone think that in Volyn they don't even know about automatic heating systems!"
At meetings in Germany, issues of risks and banking systems were discussed; there is interest in investments in mechanical engineering, in agro-industry, in wood processing and medical equipment.