Noi cercetări în relațiile economice româno-belgiene (Bisschop-Poumay)
New Research in Romanian-Belgian Economic Relations (Bisschop-Poumay)

Summary/Abstract: In this article, we have proposed to bring a surplus of information regarding the first Romanian-Belgian trade exchanges, starting from the research of historians. At the same time, the present text provides much more information about the activities of the first Belgian diplomats L. Bisschop and J. Poumay at the mouths of the Danube ports, Galati and Brăila. We mention that the two Belgian consuls were active in rather difficult times, as Moldova and Wallachia were still under Ottoman sovereignty, which did not offer full freedom to Romanian-Belgian exchanges. A lot of attention is given to the banker Poumay due to his activity in the Romanian Principality for about twenty years, developing the economic exchanges between the two countries by bringing in new commercial companies, introducing new transport lines, changing and modernizing commercial treaties, etc. All these events took place simultaneously with the modernization of the Romanian Principalities, the Belgian diplomat also being a witness to Romanian history. We will note in the following pages the fact that despite the incidents that took place after 1869, Poumay remained loyal to the Romanian-Belgian trade until his death, occupying a privileged place in the history of Romanians and beyond.

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