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Infrastructure: Romania must connect to EU through highways
Romania must have immediate priorities in completing Transylvania highway and corridor IV to connect to the EU infrastructure as Romania and Bulgaria are the only EU countries without such connections. Otherwise they risk to be left behind.
“As for the EU integration process we are part of EU but if we consider infrastructure we are outside it. We and Bulgaria are the only countries not connected by highways to EU. That is why the completion of Transylvania highway, corridor IV are a priority,” said Marcel Heroiu, a specialist is social development of the World Bank group for Europe and Central Asia at a conference on regional development organized at BNR Arenas.
He showed that Bulgaria already has a highway connecting to Serbia but Romania is avoided. “If we cannot develop and connect to the major transport infrastructure of EU we will be left behind in the future. Now we are part of the European Union, but on the outskirts,” Heroiu warned.
The World Bank official considers that if Romania encourages the EU enlargement by including Moldova, Ukraine, Turkey and Serbia it might become a center of commercial flows and will shift from a peripheral position to a central one within EU.