Ministry of European Funds

The Government will adopt today Romania's 2019 national budget, Prime Minister Viorica Dancila announced on Friday in the beginning of a government meeting.

Romania is actively participating in the consolidation of the European project, by exercising the mandate of the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, included, Minister of European Funds Rovana Plumb told a press conference on Tuesday.

Romania's absorption rate of European funds is about 20.3pct, as compared to the EU average of 22pct, EU Funds Minister Rovana Plumb said on Tuesday at Victoria Palace.

Through a balanced policy and high-level strategic thinking, Jordan is an essential factor for the stability of its region, and it is a genuine partner to Romania and the Euro-Atlantic community in general, Romania's ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Nicolae Comanescu told AGERPRES in a recent interview.

CFR Calatori national railway passenger corporation will not have enough cars this summer to meet the traveling need, especially to the seaside, given that from 1,200 cars in inventory, 400 were halted due to technical reasons, Transport Minister Lucian Sova told an interview for AGERPRES.

Romania recorded a current absorption rate of European funds under the 2007-2013 financial framework of 54.42 per cent as of end-May 2015, up 0.2 per cent from end-April, according to data posted on the website of the Ministry of European Funds (MFE).

The uptake of European funds by the Ministry for Information Society (MSI) is currently at 55 per cent and for this year's end we are targeting a level of 100 per cent, Minister of Communications Sorin Grindeanu told a Tuesday's specialist conference.

Photo credit: (c) LIVIU SOVA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

The European Commission repaid Romania this year about 565 million euros worth of funds following the relevant payment applications submitted in 2014; consequently, the absorption rate of European funds currently exceeds 52 percent, the Ministry of European Funds announced.

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The Directorate for the Investigation of Organised Crimes and Terrorism (DIICOT) prosecutors on Monday have completed 37 searches in several locations in Bucharest and the counties of Ilfov (ring around Romania's capital city) and Iasi (northeastern Romania) among which at the Ministry of European Funds (MFE), where they have taken several computers from.

The Ministry of European Funds (MFE) dismissed media allegations about teachers having to return a 150 euros subvention.