Dan Voiculescu sends a warning to the government. If you do not qualify for the efficient use of EU funds, Romania risks losing a lot of money in the upcoming years.
Voiculescu said that he chose to talk about these issues so that the government should not say at the end of the year that they did not know about them.
Professor Dan Voiculescu writes on his blog that Romania faces a significant challenges this year.
"It is about the non-fulfillment of the ex-ante conditionalities by 31 December 2016 which will put a huge pressure on the state budget. With these conditionalities, each EU Member State guarantees the existence of preconditions for the efficient use of European structural funds and investments”, Dan Voiculescu wrote on his blog.
According to the professor, "the major projects approved by the European Commission but unfinished in the programming period 2007-2013 must necessarily be completed through the phasing out process , either of its own financial resources which largely come also from the state budget because the beneficiaries are public authorities or state-owned companies ".
"Otherwise, there is a major risk in the implementation of structural funds and investments for 2014-2020.
P.S.: So I wanted to make sure that the risk is known starting now, from January 2016 so that we do not end up in December 2016, with a new sad finding , " Dan Voiculescu concludes.
In the period 2014-2020, Romania will benefit from a total allocation of about 28 billion euros in structural and cohesion funds and EAFRD funds. Of this amount, 21 billion euros will be allocated to operational programs financed from structural funds, while 7.5 billion will go to the National Rural Development Programme.