Romania is not a good place to invest in anything.
It did have potential 5-10 years ago, like someone said on the first page, Nokia built a factory here. But they moved last year to Moldavia. They simply fired everyone and left the building empty. In the last two years there have been close to no investments because of political instability, high taxes and the corrupt system. For example, i've seen this article about a certain foreign company that intended to invest here. Asked why they didn't eventually do it, the manager said that when he went to get the paper for the land they were gonna build the factory, he was asked for a bribe "to speed things up". And it wasn't that they didn't have the money, but they just don't work and don't want to work that way.
You mentioned Rosia Montana Gold Corporation. That program and RMGC have low chances to get off the ground after so many years. RMGC has been pumping tons of money for political lobby, buying journalists and all kinds of experts, even natives to Rosia Montana, trying to convince people that Romania has only to gain from approving the project. But they had bad luck. Rosia Montana and the mountain that contains the gold are protected by law because they contain roman underground galleries and graves since the year 131 when the romans first started mining there for gold. They called it
Alburnus Maior. It's obvious, everyone that got paid would have no problem rewriting the laws. But the subject came to the media and some investigation journalists are still fighting strong against it, taking it as far as there were protests organized in the street against the project. If you know romanian or understand anything with google translate, read this article
http://voxpublica.realitatea.net/po...i-in-proiectul-de-la-rosia-montana-69460.html
An example of how things are done in Romania is the
Transilvania Highway. This highways construction lasted 7 years, but not because the Bechtel company actually finished it, but because after spending 1 billion euros to build 50km of highway (keep in mind, in 7 years, 25 mil euros/km), they simply left. Right now the "highway" starts at nowhere and leads to nowhere, it's in the middle of the field and will probably never get finished. No one was ever held responsible for this. And this how things go in Romania.
If you want to sell or buy something from the state you need to know you'll never win the auction if you don't pay more bribe money than the rest. It doesn't matter if your products are cheaper and ten times better, nobody cares about this.
The ideal country from this region to invest in is Moldavia, but they are heavily influenced by the russians and you need steel balls to make business with those guys. Also, i suspect the corruption is even higher than here, but so is the ROI.