Corina Creţu

BRUSSELS - European Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Cretu will be paying a working visit to Serbia on Thursday and Friday.

Serbia is already a very active and valuable partner in cooperation, especially in the Danube and Adriatic-Ionian macroregional strategies, Cretu said before the trip to Belgrade.

Ministers from the biggest party in Bulgaria's outgoing government lashed out at the leading opposition force on Monday after the latter alleged the European Commission planned to freeze millions worth of funding allocated to the country.

Romania's North-East region has the highest rate of absorption of European Funds in the 2007-2013 period, said on Saturday, in Iasi, European Commissioner Corina Cretu, in the debate titled "Dialogue with citizens".

European Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Cretu on Friday called on Romania's Health Minister Vlad Voiculescu to speed up the completion of documents for the construction of three regional hospitals in Romania.

EU Regional Policy Commissioner Corina Cretu arrives in Bulgaria on a 2-day visit on May 28.

The visit will focus on investments which the EU makes in the development of the region through its cohesion policy.

In the period 2014-2020, Bulgaria has been allocated EU funding of EUR 7.6 B under the cohesion policy.

Romania avoided losing almost 750 million euros, thanks to a series of decisions taken by the Juncker Commission, through the retroactive approval of funds for a series of projects, the European Commissioner for Regional Policies, Corina Cretu, said in a meeting with the Minister of European Funds, Marius Nica.

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The European Commission needs a guarantee of stability; therefore, it is important that Romania's Transportation Master Plan gets the support of all political forces and of the whole society, European Commissioner for Regional Policies Corina Cretu said on Wednesday in a press conference in Cluj-Napoca.

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Romania is the first country Phil Hogan officially visits in the capacity of European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, and the Suindprod Radic pig farm in Arges County was the first facility Hogan, European Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Cretu, Minister of Agriculture Daniel Constantin and Minister of European Funds Eugen Teodorovici toured together on Thursday.

The European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Phil Hogan pays an official visit to Romania on Thursday and Friday; he is to meet Prime Minister Victor Ponta, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin and the joint Committees for Agriculture of the Romanian Senate and Chamber of Deputies.

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The foremost priority of Romania's General Transport Master Plan, from the European Commission (EC) viewpoint, is the completion in due time of the projects within the main Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) and, secondly, the identification of the most important projects for the extended TEN-T, which could also benefit from the EC financial support, European Commissioner for Regional Pol