According to the former president of the Federación de Cámaras Europeas, Fernando Gonzalez Nicolas, various European Union companies are interested in participating in the recovery of the state owned mining company Rosario Dominicana, the Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad (CDE) and the Consejo Estatal del Azucar (CEA), where they are willing to invest huge, but unspecified, sums of money. He said that EU businessmen trust the current economic and political stability of the country.