President Iohannis: A fundamental objective of economic relaunch plan – massive investments in all infrastructure types

President Klaus Iohannis stated that one of the objectives of the economic relaunch plan after the COVID-19 pandemic is to “massively” increase public investments in all types of infrastructure, with a strong emphasis to be placed from now on on the Romanian products.

“A fundamental objective of the economic relaunch plan I am working on together with the Orban Government is to massively increase public investments in all types of infrastructure, from the energy one to the transport and health ones. I am basically speaking of a rebuilding project for Romania. The Romanian products of good quality are another resource that we will promote better and we will support significant investments in the economic sectors of strategic interest, such as agriculture and the food industry, energy security and health care,” said the head of state at the Cotroceni Palace.

He added that the Government negotiated with the European Commission to have all the non-reimbursable European funds available at this point redirected with celerity to those programmes designed to support companies and large infrastructure projects in transport and communications.

Iohannis specified that a “gradual” reopening of the economic sectors impacted by the novel coronavirus epidemic will take place in the next interval, but the protection of the citizens’ health remains the top priority.

According to the head of state, after May 14, when the state of emergency ends, the authorities will maintain the support for the furloughed employees but will introduce new measures related to flexible work options, to allow the resumption of the activity in such sectors that were directly and indirectly affected.

Via Agerpres