Radauti, in Bukovina, on Romania’s north-eastern border with Ukraine, has a harder time attracting investment than the strategically-located cities of Transylvania.
A look at the map gives part of the explanation: where cities such as Cluj or Brasov are on the main routes heading west, guaranteeing easy access both to Romania’s large domestic market and to the markets of the wider European Union, Suceava county looks to the non-EU markets of Ukraine, the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States, and Moldova.
