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Corina Creţu: With over 40% of the population on the brink of poverty, Romania has to manage a very serious social issue

Corina Creţu: With over 40% of the population on the brink of poverty, Romania has to manage a very serious social issue
21 Ian 2015   •   19:02

European Commissioner Corina Cretu said that one of the serious social problems of Romania is poverty, and this can be solved with the help of regional development funds.   Cretu made the statements upon the arrival in  Brussels  of Labour Minister, Rovana Plumb. 

"With over 40% of the population at the lowest levels of poverty and social exclusion, Romania has got a very serious social problem to manage  and regional development funds should be used mainly for solving this problem. 

Roads and highways are important for Romania, but equally important should be fighting poverty. I salute the  Minister's concern for  the social groups in Romania and  the efforts made  to improve their situation, " European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Corina Cretu said, according to a press release sent. 

At the meeting with the  PSD minister, Creţu  also pointed out that there are still important steps to be taken in this direction: 

"The fact that we currently have no map of social infrastructure priorities is a problem. I recommended the Bucharest Executive to encourage greater collaboration between the Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Development and the Ministry of European Funds for this pre-condition for accessing funds in the period 2014-2020 to be fulfilled. " 

Since Romania is the country with the highest number of abandoned children in Europe (every day in Romania a child is abandoned), the Commission follows the issue very closely. 

"In connection with these children, the European Commission has a very firm policy of encouraging the transition from old-type centers to having them grow in family type homes  and I  have repeatedly expressed myself on this imperative. However, in Romania, in 2007-2013 they continued to finance the  construction of old type centers, which is unfortunate. 

I am glad that in the period 2014-2020 Romania has committed, by signing the Partnership Agreement, not to finance the construction of these  old type centers and I want you to know that I will personally ensure that this promise be fulfilled, " Commissioner Cretu said.

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