We travel on damaged roads, we use buses that have exceeded by far their life expectancy and we live in old buildings, one newspaper reads on Monday about an expired Romania. Elsewhere in the news, one newspaper notes that Romania forgot its Chinese partner. On a lighter tone, tens of thousands of Bucharest citizens prefer to spend just one day at the seaside and return the same day due to high prices.
Evenimentul zilei reads on Monday about an expired Romania: citizens travel on damaged roads, use buses that exceeded by far their life expectancy and live in old buildings with overused installations. A big part of the infrastructure Romania rests on needs urgent repairs.
After 20 years of repairs, Romania is about to expire - new constructions mushroom from place to place while modernization works launched before the 90s are lost in files. Tens of billions of euro would be necessary to exit this situation but there are no money and projects advance hard.
The newspaper analyzed the main structure on which Romania's activity is based today: road and railway infrastructure, electricity systems and heat systems, water supply. Most of these facilities did not reach half of the country's population that lives in the rural area.
Authorities need at least 50 billion euro to improve the situation and lots of determination but meanwhile Romania took up a 20 billion euro to be able to pay pensions and salaries.
Elsewhere in the news, in an interview for Romania libera, Romania's Ambassador to Beijing talked about the absence of a serious business plan for Chinese investor. The diplomat suggests that Bucharest cannot take advantage of the traditional political relations that exist between the two countries and that each year Romania misses out on the Chinese investments.
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