According to Ponta, Romania’s delegation at the European Council meeting will do its best to try to lower the gap between the initially proposed amount and the new allocation.
The prime minister said the EC’s initial proposition targeted fair allocations for Romania, of EUR48 billion, for both cohesion funds and agriculture (direct payments and rural development). He went on saying it is very important to make sure the EUR48 billion amount will not be drastically reduced.
Ponta said Romania’s delegation, run by President Traian Basescu, also includes state secretaries within the ministries of Finance, Agriculture and European Funds.
The European Council meeting, held in Brussels on February 7 and 8, aims to reach an agreement on the EU’s 2014-2020 budget, the so-called multi-annual financial framework.