Romania will have to allocate approximately 2% of GDP annually over the next 10 years, representing the financial contribution related to European-funded projects, to which is added the demand to complete the entire infrastructure presented in the Investment Plan for the development of transport infrastructure for the period 2020 - 2030.The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MTI) published, on Friday, in public debate, the draft Government Decision on approving the Investment Plan for the development of transport infrastructure for the period 2020 - 2030, the deadline for receiving proposals and comments being December 14, 2021.According to the substantiation note that accompanies the draft normative act, the Investment Plan develops a strategy of ensuring the necessary financing for the 10 years of implementation starting from the correlation of the main financing sources available to Romania: PNRR, POT, CEF 2.0 and the national budget.In total, the financing need for all transport sectors in Romania over the next decade is 72.77 billion euros. Of this amount, 34.19 billion euros is dedicated to road infrastructure, 20.63 billion euros to railway infrastructure, 10.7 billion euros to metro infrastructure, 4.46 billion euros to naval infrastructure and 2.79 billion euros dedicated to airport infrastructure.The maximum estimated allocations for European funding are 40.78 billion euros (of which 13.43 non-reimbursable external funds and 27.35 maximum contribution from the state budget, including the over-contracting mechanism), resulting in a deficit of 31.99 billion euros, which can be covered from the state budget, respectively by external loans and private funds.
More than 108,000 Romanian households changed their electricity providers in June, just before the country returned to a liberalized energy market, according to George Niculescu, president of the National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE). “Today, after more than three and a half years, we return to a free electricity market - a market for the consumer! […]
The Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) has reinstated Traian Băsescu’s rights as a former president, granting him lifelong state benefits, including a monthly allowance, protocol residence, and permanent security. The court ruled unanimously that a 2001 law, which stripped former presidents of these privileges if found to have collaborated with the communist-era Securitate, is unconstitutional, Biziday.ro...
Mihai Leu, former world boxing champion and national rally champion, has died at the age of 56 after a long battle with cancer. He passed away on Tuesday evening, July 1, at Fundeni Hospital in Bucharest, where he had been hospitalized in June with pulmonary failure, Biziday.ro reported. His death was confirmed on his official […]
The number of people in Romania at risk of poverty stood at 3.59 million people in 2024, 375,000 fewer than in 2023, representing a 9.4% decrease, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, or INS. Despite the improvement, nearly one in five Romanians was affected by poverty last year. According to INS, 19% […]
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cluj-Napoca carried out multiple searches on Tuesday, July 1, at the Sibiu International Airport and the Sibiu County Council as part of an investigation into suspected fraud involving a EUR 54 million EU-funded infrastructure project. A total of 24 locations were searched across Bucharest, Brașov, and Sibiu county, […]
A Romanian taxi driver who scammed 90-year-old Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka was detained by police on Sunday, June 29, according to media reports. On Friday, June 27, the venerable Nigerian arrived at Bucharest's Otopeni Airport. He got into a taxi and asked to be taken to a hotel downtown. At the destination, the […]
