Macro-financial assistance on behalf of EU to be invested in economic growth - Moldovan PM says

Chisinau, 8 May /MOLDPRES/ - The macro-financial assistance on behalf of the European Union will be invested in the economic growth for a better work of the state. Prime Minister Pavel Filip made statements to this effect in an interview given exclusively to MOLDPRES.  

According to the official, the government’s goal is that, till the end of the parliamentary session, we have all conditions fulfilled for all the three installments of the macro-financial assistance, not only for the first one.

“I am optimistic that, from the strict point of view of the administrative calendar, the first two installments will come this year; we try also to have the third installment, but we resort to the idea that, for reasons of administrative processes and their setting in motion, it is possible that the third installment to come as late as after the elections. We continue working to implement the measures and the European money will certainly come,” Filip said.  

The prime minister noted that, during his recent visit to Brussels, Commissioner Hahn specified that Commissioner Hahn has specified that the earmarking of the macro-financial assistance depended on the full-capacity work of the National Integrity Agency, on the adoption of an additional budget for the activity of the anticorruption institutions and on the IMF’s report on the stand-by agreement underway.

“We have a relation which unfolds very well with IMF, the results are the expected ones, so that, in next June, we expect a positive evaluation within the institution’s Board of Directors. As for the other two measures, the government will ensure their quick implementation, in order to once again show that the anticorruption fight enjoys every support on behalf of the government,” Pavel Filip said.   

The government has earlier approved a decision on the signing of an agreement on financing between Moldova and the European Union on a 100-million-euros-worth macro-financial assistance. The disbursements will be made in 2018, in three equal installments, depending on the progress made in the implementation of those 28 conditions imposed by EU, which provide for combating corruption, reforms in the energy sector and the financial one.  

(Reporter A. Ciobanu, editor M. Jantovan)