1. Main Impediments for a Successful Absorption of EU-Funds
Johannes Becker
Bucharest,

2. Situation today Two thirds of the period 2014 – 2020 have passed;
Absorption of EU-Funds extremely low:
4,91% without Rural Development
10,07% including Rural Development
Biggest problems to be found in programs for Human Capital and Regional Development
Romania risks to definitely lose about 3 bn Euro EU-Funds in 2018;
Highest number of fraud investigations related to EU-Funds;
National State Aid programs for funding of projects were stopped in early 2017;

3. Main reasons Lack of political will, delayed decisions; Instability;
Conflicts between authorities;
Legislative changes that obstruct EU-funded projects;
Needlessly complicated procedures;
Technical resasons, such as:
MySMIS;
Management Authorities;
Ex-ante conditions;
Reallocation;
etc.

4. Ministers for EU-Funds in the past three years
Until 03/2015: Eugen Teodorovici
03/2015 – 12/2015: Marius Nica
12/2015 – 04/2016: Aura Raducu
04/2016 – 10/2016: Cristian Ghinea
10/2016 – 12/2016: Dragos Dinu
12/2016 – 02/2017: Mihaela Toader
02/2017 – 10/2017: Rovana Plumb
10/2017 – 01/2018: Marius Nica
01/ ?: Rovana Plumb

5. Main reasons Lack of political will; Instability;
Conflicts between authorities;
Legislative changes that obstruct EU-funded projects;
Needlessly complicated procedures;
Technical resasons, such as:
MySMIS;
Management Authorities;
Ex-ante conditions;
Reallocation;
etc.

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