Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu declared on Wednesday evening that Romania has closed 71 milestones linked to the third payment request under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, and that talks are underway for another three milestones.
“There are certain rules at the Commission. Inflows to Romania at the moment are enough to allow us to make the necessary payments for the ongoing NRRP investments. We had 74 milestones, 3 are still under discussion: it’s milestone No. 206 related to micro-enterprises, about … how selections were made – and the Performance Monitoring and Assessment Agency is not the big issue, the discussions are about certain companies in the energy sector. The Commission asks questions, we provide the answers, explain why these things happened. Then they give us the final answer in a certain time interval; of course we have a discussion after the final answer and then we have six months to fix what we didn’t close,” said…
