MEP Corina Cretu says that things are very difficult in Romania regarding the PNRR. The former European Commissioner states that Romania will be subject to an audit in January-February, which will show whether the first steps taken in the PNRR have been met. If this did not happen, everything risks getting stuck, says Corina Cretu.
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“In the field of highways, how can I believe what the Romanian government promises? I have seen from the European Commission how difficult things are moving. As long as in 30 years 500 kilometers of highway have not been built, Romania has committed to I remind you that the PNRR cannot be done in pieces, and in January-February there will be an audit to see if that milestone, those objectives set by Romania by January have been met and if one of these, for example, the digitization of ANAF has not been fulfilled, practically everything is blocked and resumed when they are fulfilled, which is why I say that I am very pessimistic. that Romania will still benefit from extensions of terms, derogations, exceptions, as has always happened, this is already established in the PNRR regulation: no derogations can be made. all temporary, “said Corina Cretu on the show BE EU, presented by Sabina Iosub.
Pre-financing from PNRR would not have been requested by Romania
The former European commissioner says that Romania could have asked for an important pre-financing, of several billion euros, which did not happen.
“There are 16 states that have already taken the money and started implementing it in parallel with the 2021-2027 program and at the end of the 2014-2020 program. We are stagnating in all respects, and in terms of the PNRR since the formal approval, The Romanian state could have asked for a pre-financing, we don’t know if it did, there was no communication in this respect, the requested pre-financing could be 3.9 billion euros, ie 13% of the amount. an exceptional financial instrument for Member States, to recover from the pandemic and to make reforms in the field of digitalisation, the green transition. violated by that PNDL, in the sense that it deprived millions of people of funds, just because they had a mayor who does not belong to the governmental coalition, “Corina Cretu added.
Corina Cretu: “I fought a lot for the regional hospitals. I have a personal frustration”
Corina Cretu is also disappointed by the lack of progress in building regional hospitals.
“Health should be a priority. Now you can take money from other health funds. I fought a lot for those Regional Hospitals and from here it is a personal frustration that I have. I don’t understand why the current government is not launching tenders Maybe the beneficiary of the project should change, maybe the Ministry of Health is not able to build, but that’s how the government was beaten in the beginning: the beneficiary should be the Ministry of Health. Do you do hospitals, what do you do? Do you use them in the campaign and that’s it? In 2026, what else will they say? ” Corina Cretu also said.
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