EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, is paying a two-day visit to Romania. Today, the EU official will meet Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and Agriculture Minister Florin Barbu. He will then meet representatives of farmers’ associations and of the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest. Tomorrow, Commissioner Wojciechowski will visit the port of Constanța (southeast) in order to conduct an assessment of the transport of grain and other agricultural products from Ukraine. The agenda of his visit will end with a series of visits to projects funded by the EU. We recall the European Commission has recently disbursed 126 mln EUR worth of aid to Romania, to fund investment in the ports facing growing volumes of traded goods. Romania can also applying for funding under the Connecting Europe Facility – the Transport component, in order to boost investment in new and modern infrastructure.
