Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu declared on Thursday, in Timisoara, that the territorial regionalization and the budget reform must be done after an analysis and an exact study in each county.

„Budgetary reform and territorial regionalization will have to be done in Romania. We need a very clear analysis and we need to come up with a plan. We have the public administration system, the INA system, the French system. They have regional governors, who intervene so that there are no more gaps between the development regions, which happened between Timisoara and Bacau, for example. Or between Cluj and the south of the country. I don’t know if it is still relevant. When the Poles made it, instead of having 10,000 projects on European funds, you had two integrated projects and normally they had an absorption of European funds of 110%. Romania had 54%”, Marcel Ciolacu told a press conference.

He added that a reform must be made in the central and local public administration.

„Certain steps were lost, but fundamentally, as in the public administration, where a reform must be made, both centrally and locally, also regionalization will be necessary. This does not mean that they will be abolished, there will be regions, projects will be submitted together and certain mergers will be made, but after a very precise study per each county, separately. If it is about a depopulated, mountainous area, you have to come up with balancing instruments, you have to narrow the gap”, explained Ciolacu.

AGERPRES