The Transportation Ministry neither is nor has been a poorministry, so if things are going badly, it is out of ignorance,carelessness or ill will. Former transportation minister RaduBerceanu made one mistake - he trusted people who were notprofessionals, says transportation minister Anca Boagiu.
From the armchair where Traian Băsescu used to sit over 10 yearsago, Boagiu says, in an interview for ZF, that she has come back tothe ministry as to a "home" because she did previously fill thisposition 10 years ago for a short span of time. She foundeverything the same as she left it, as if nothing had happened,says the minister. And in fact nothing has happened.
The motorway building programme was launched in Romania in herfirst term as a minister, in 2000. The motorway maps are the same,only the motorways have not been built. Who is to blame for thisgaping hole that stretches between 2000 and 2011? Has there been nomoney?
Over the past 10 years, the Transportation Ministry has had over20 billion euros available, which it used to build around 200 km ofmotorway. In the past three years and a half, the ministry couldhave taken at least 2 billion euros from the EU, in non-repayablefunds for the infrastructure, but only took 45 million euros, i.e.1% of the overall 4.5 billion-euro programme (to which the 1billion-euro national co-funding is added). At the same time, TheNational Company of Motorways and National Roads (CNADNR) is themost subsidised company in Romania - 1.6 billion euros in 2010alone. But it has 200 million euros in unpaid debts. As for railwaycompanies, they are in debt over their heads. CFR Infrastructură(CFR Infrastructure) alone has 1.4 billion euros in debts - whichamounts to 18% of Romania's deficit last year (8 billion euros).
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