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Speeding up the implementation of the NRRP and cohesion funds by strengthening administrative capacity

In its country-specific recommendation for 2024–2025, the European Commission explicitly asked for a significant acceleration in the implementation of the cohesion programmes and the NRRP, by ensuring effective governance and strengthening administrative capacity.

International institutionEuropean Commission· 2024Partly implemented

What the Commission recommended

The full text of the recommendation, adopted by the EU Council on the Commission's proposal: “Significantly speed up the implementation of cohesion policy programmes and of the recovery and resilience plan, including the REPowerEU chapter, ensuring the completion of reforms and investments by August 2026, by ensuring effective governance and strengthening administrative capacity.”[4]

The recommendation is part of a wider set for Romania, which also includes fiscal consolidation to bring the budget deficit towards the 3% of GDP threshold set by the treaties[4].

Sources

Primary official sources; where we use the press (only when the official document is not public) we mark it. The links lead to the original document or to the report cited (titles are translated; the documents themselves are in Romanian unless stated).

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    Fiscal Council of Romania — Note on the absorption of European funds (approved by the plenary of the Fiscal Council on 21 February 2025; figures based on Ministry of Finance data, at 31.12.2024)

    Published 21 February 2025 · Accessed 15 October 2026 · the original document(opens in a new tab)

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    Government of Romania — Press information on the normative acts adopted at the meeting of the Government of Romania on 14 August 2026 (in Romanian) (note on the implementation and absorption status of the 2021-2027 programmes funded by the Cohesion Policy)

    Published 14 August 2026 · Accessed 15 October 2026 · the original document(opens in a new tab)

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    Ministry of European Investments and Projects (MIPE) — Preliminary MIPE estimate on NRRP absorption (grants and loans) (in Romanian) (MIPE statement, independently confirmed by three press reports (mediafax.ro, sfin.ro, atlasnews.ro) with identical percentages; preliminary figure: MIPE states that the final result will be known only after the 6th (and last) payment request is submitted to the European Commission)

    Published 14 September 2026 · Accessed 15 October 2026 · the original document(opens in a new tab)

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    European Commission — Recommendation for a Council Recommendation on the economic, social, employment, structural and budgetary policies of Romania — COM(2024) 623 final

    Published 19 June 2024 · Accessed 15 October 2026 · the original document(opens in a new tab)