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The European money began to flow to Romania, since all of the management and control bodies are being accredited, and the Romanian authorities may send bills to the European institutions, on Thursday said the European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Corina Cretu. "We've got this good news, the European money started to flow to Romania, all management, control bodies are being accredited, so from now on the Romanian authorities may send their bills. In August only the Commission has already paid EUR 95 million to Romania and invoices worth EUR 350 million are still there under analysis and will get to Romania as soon as possible. Many other things are to be done yet, I'm going to go to the government to talk to Premier and ministers in detail on each domain, about the problems and their solutions," Corina Cretu asserted at the Parliament Palace after a meeting with the Chamber of Deputies' Speaker, Liviu Dragnea.
She added that on the 2007-2013 exercise, Romania has absorbed rd 90 percent of the European funds it had been granted. "On the 2007-2013 exercise I'm glad we are somewhere at 89- 90- 91 percent, the figure may vary upon the financial corrections and the decisions that will be made in connection with some activities that are interrupted, which was unacceptable, in 2012 we saw 4 percent absorption of EU funds, nobody would've believed it could be possible. We made huge efforts to attain this absorption rate which in fact means the creation of 51,000 jobs, thousands of small and medium companies. Obviously, only 300 km of speedway were achieved, but than again thousands of county roads have been fixed, alongside1,000 schools, educational units, kindergartens, from this viewpoint I believe there is no locality where the results brought by the EU funds are not concretely seeable, and this is why we must fight further so that Romania gets a budget tailored to its needs to develop and reduce development gaps," the European Commissioner added
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