European Union to provide grants amounting to 600,000 euros for local economic development

13:34 | 25.04.2017 Category: Economic

Chisinau, 25 April /MOLDPRES/- The European Union will provide grants worth from 300,000 to 600,000 euros for economic development and job creation at the local level. In this respect, the project “Mayors for Economic Growth” was launched in Chisinau today.

The EU budget for this initiative is 9.5 million euros.

Attending the event, Head of the EU Delegation to Moldova Pirkka Tapiola said that the project would help local public authorities to become active promoters of the economic growth and creation of new jobs at local level. “The project will back cooperation between the local public authorities and other local actors (business environment, civil society, different public institutions) to improve the business ecosystem at local level, which would boost the economic development in the regions of the country”, Tapiola said.

Deputy Secretary General of the government Valentin Guznac said that the project would help villages and cities to strengthen their capacities. “The government backs this beautiful initiative and will do its best to develop it”, Guznac said.

The head of the Local Authorities Congress of Moldova, Tatiana Badan, thanked the European officials for the launch of this project. “We have many programmes funded by the EU that have brought good results. The project is very welcome and is part of the reform on decentralization and consolidation of local autonomy to provide quality services to citizens. I am sure the mayors will actively participate in this programme and we will get visible results”, Badan noted.

A cooperation agreement was signed with the Local Authorities Congress meant to ensure increased efficiency of activities in Moldova.

The Mayors for Economic Growth is a new regional initiative of the EU for 2017-2020, meant to support the local public authorities in the Eastern Partnership states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine).

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor M. Jantovan)

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