Romania to back implementation of EU Strategy for Danube Region in Moldova
12:52 | 18.02.2016 Category: Economic
Chisinau, 18 February /MOLDPRES/-Moldovan Deputy Regional Development and Constructions Minister, coordinator of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) for Moldova, Anatol Usatii is on a working visit to Romania on 17-19 February to perform an exchange of experience with EUSDR experts. The Moldovan deputy minister met State Secretary for European affairs Georghe Ciamba, in Bucharest on 17 February. The officials highlighted the mutual willingness of both countries to develop and consolidate bilateral cooperation, inclusively in the EUSDR framework.
According to the press service of the Regional Development and Constructions Ministry, in his tenure of EUSDR coordinator for Moldova, Usatii emphasized the important need to consolidate EUSDR’s coordination and promotion capacities for Moldova and promote cross border and transnational programmes.
“The informational support and experience of other states actively involved in the promotion of the EUSDR strategy, will help us ensure Moldova’s efficient implementation of all the strategy’s 11 priorities, increase EUSDR’s promotion at national, regional, local and international levels. We will also contribute to the creation of a National Management and Control System of cross-border programmes, enhancing the capacities of potential beneficiaries of the future cross-border and transnational cooperation programmes in 2014-2020, “Usatii said.
For his part, Ciamba highlighted the important role macro-regional cooperation plays in boosting up Moldova’s EU integration process. “The new European financial framework for 2014-2020 must ensure the skillful use of all the EU’s financing tools and help us identify the priorities that are to materialized through feasible and realistic pilot-projects, meant to meet the development needs of Moldova and Romania and fortify their bilateral cooperation within an European framework,” the Romanian official noted.
At the end of the meeting, the Romanian side voiced its availability to back Moldova in the implementation of the EUSDR strategy.
(Reporter A. Mardare, Editor M. Jantovan)