Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, together with the team of deputy prime ministers and the minister of Investments and European Projects, will hold discussions by the end of this month with each of the ministers and representatives of the entities that manage projects financed through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), in order to conduct a detailed analysis of the implementation status of the related targets and milestones, informs Agerpres.
Following the discussions, the reform and investment coordinators will assume in a Government meeting, through a memorandum, a calendar regarding the monthly progress of fulfilling the commitments assumed, the cited source informs.
According to a Government’s press release, the announcement was made by the prime minister during the meeting of the Interministerial Coordination Committee of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, held at the Victoria Palace, with the participation of the Director General of SG RECOVER (Task Force for Recovery and Resilience within the Secretariat General of the European Commission), Celine Gauer, and other representatives of the European Commission.
At the same time, during the meeting, the prime minister stated that the Government would closely monitor compliance with the deadlines necessary to attract European funding from the PNRR, in view of a renegotiation with the European Commission of the assumed targets and milestones, which would allow for a more efficient prioritization of the projects and implemented reforms, „starting from realistic, not optimistic information”.
„Romania’s development also depends on how we mobilize to draw the money allocated to us from the European Union budget and to recover in the coming period the large gap that we have registered in the implementation of the PNRR. And the years 2025 and 2026 are defining for achieving these objectives, if we want to be able to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2026, as we have proposed,” Ciolacu was quoted as saying in the press release.
For his part, the general director of SG RECOVER, Celine Gauer, argued that a change of approach is needed in the 18 months that Romania still has at its disposal, so as to ensure that it can attract the funds allocated to it through the PNRR from the European Union budget.
„The European official expressed her full willingness to support the Romanian side in these steps, recalling, however, that although progress has been made, there are still targets and milestones that have not been achieved, and she gave assurances that the implementation status will be evaluated objectively and transparently at the European Commission level,” the release added.
