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Deputy Prime Minister Dan Barna stated, on Friday, after hearing of the death of the ALDE Party, Hans van Baalen, that he was a friend to Romania and to Save Romania Union (USR PLUS), adding that the meetings with him were synonymous with one of the most important stages of the party s political maturity. Today I received a sad information - the death of Hans van Baalen, the President of ALDE Europe, a fighter for European liberal values and a friend to Romania and USR PLUS, wrote Dan Barna on his Facebook page.
He added that these meetings were synonymous with one of the most important stages of the political maturity, of the formation.
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Deputy Prime Minister Dan Barna, co-chair of the USR PLUS Alliance, stated that he hopes the Bucharest City General Mayor, Nicusor Dan, and the USR PLUS councilors reach a consensus regarding the adoption of the Bucharest City budget, mentioning that, if necessary, he will get involved in the mediation process. I hope that the General Mayor and my colleagues reach a consensus, if it s necessary, I will be involved in mediating. The drawing up of a budget must be an agreement between those who support the General Mayor in each city in part. It s a natural thing, the debates will continue, I have no doubt we will have a budget, Barna mentioned on Wednesday, before entering the coalition meeting.
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The Deputy Prime Minister Dan Barna said on Monday that there is no mistake regarding the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), being only about a stage of consultations . This program will bring the 30 billion (euro), just as it was foreseen and thought out at the European level at the level of each state. There is no mistake. (.) It is a stage of consultations which took place after the political accord through which this first variant of the program was sent to Brussels. There were discussions, we have the Commission s feedback, a part of the components are considered to be in a very good and mature form and will certainly be found in the final layout of the program, Barna declared, at the Parliament.
The European Commission has told Romanian authorities that irrigation works could not be funded by the Recovery and Resilience Facility and that the government allocated too large a share of the fund to transport infrastructure.
The government set aside investments of €3 billion for irrigation infrastructure and other land improvement works in its proposal for the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. The investments will still be carried out from the state budget or rural development funds, Deputy Prime Minister Dan Barna has promised.
However, the Commission has stated that agricultural works cannot be funded from the proposed Recovery and Resilience Mechanism. According to the government, the Commission has a different opinion on the environmental impact than Romanian authorities.
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Romania will not benefit from European funds through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) for the irrigation system, Deputy Prime Minister Dan Barna declared on Wednesday evening.
He told public television broadcaster TVR1 that the Minister of European Investments and Projects, Cristian Ghinea, presented the PNRR draft in Brussels, but the European Commission requested it to be changed. In the talks and negotiations within the coalition with the three partners, we agreed upon a form of proposals for the PNRR, that our colleague Cristian Ghinea took to Brussels, where he discussed with European officials, with commissioners on the topic. Some of the themes were accepted. Regarding other matters, the European Commission said: I believe they are necessary to you, but we will not give you money from the PNRR for this . We have three billion for irrigation. They said that it is not a reform which helps post-COVID resilience, becau