“We have the European Commission’s permission to subsidize CFR Calatori and CFR Infrastructura,” he said.
Romania’s railway companies owe energy suppliers almost two billion lei (EUR460 million).
Transport Minister Anca Boagiu said in early August that the price paid by CFR for electricity is too high. She also said the debts would be settled by the end of this year and new energy purchase contracts would be signed in 2012.