Compared to 1998, the very beginning of our activities in the country, today Bucharest is an entirely changed city.  Where the Belgian pioneers called the city and country (with all due respect) ‘the Wild East’, today the place is still ‘wild’ and ‘East’, but reforms and the market economy have hit hard.  Enthusiasm and hard work no longer are sufficient to succeed here.

Which is why we have set up the ‘Belgian Connection’: we aim at getting the Belgian expat community in direct contact with our peers from other countries and, in the first place, with our Romanian business colleagues.

We offer you our monthly drinks, where you have the opportunity of meeting with your peers in a top location in Bucharest Centre (the Novotel Direction and its chef take very well care of us).

Want to meet again while offering your foreign colleagues another flavour of ‘Belgian hospitality’, ‘savoir vivre’ and ‘savoir faire’?  Our Cheese and Wine event, our mussels dinner and our concert offer you the possibility!

I have seldom had more (professional) satisfaction than when seeing CEO’s or MD’s exchanging business cards and making appointments after having had a nice meal and a good glass of wine in a classy environment – whereas the only thing they had needed to do was to subscribe to our activity!

Hearing that these contacts have helped many an invitee – be it at expat starter level or at the ‘finesse’ stadium of for example accounting or legal stuff – in getting better results, is a reason to continue doing what we do and to continue asking you all to support us in the future – if only by attending our activities.

All of this because we can offer a perfect attendee mix of diplomats, Flanders Investment and Trade representants, Vlamingen in De Wereld representants and business people from any industry or service you can imagine…  (in our section ‘galery’, you will find pictures from a number of our events – both in Romania as in Belgium).

For all our activities in the coming year, I invite you to check the ‘activities-section’ of this web-site.  Do have a look and make sure to block the dates in your agenda: you don’t want to miss this!

Looking forward to seeing you,

Luk Vangansbeke, Pentamid Group