Gov't approves financing agreements for European projects worth 900 m euros

The Romanian Government has approved financing agreements for European projects to be developed in the agriculture field worth 900 million euros, Prime Minister Emil Boc announced on Tuesday.

'At this point, we have already signed financing agreements for European funds worth 900 million euros. Moreover, we have approved projects worth 1 billion euros since December 22, 2008, and until now,' Premier Boc said.

According to him, most of the projects already concluded are to be developed under the regional sectorial operational programme - increase of economic competitiveness.

The Prime Minister also mentioned there exist major differences among the regions of the country in terms of absorption rate of community funds.

Agerpres