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Romania, Bulgaria discuss plans to build Danube hydropower plant
Romania and Bulgaria are in talks on plans to build a hydropower plant on the Danube, Prime Minister Victor Ponta told Agerpres after the meeting this Saturday with Bulgarian counterpart Plamen Oresharski in Sofia, where both dignitaries attended the gathering of the Council of the European Socialists Party, the executive body of the pan-European formation.
'We have the potential, we also have the investors, all we have to do is carry the project through,' said the Romanian Prime Minister, who did not elaborate on the location of the plant, but only said that the site was already established.
''I took the opportunity of this visit to Sofia to discuss with the new Bulgarian Premier and the new government our most important joint projects. In the first place, our joint efforts under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism and efforts towards a faster Schengen entry. But more important than that is our co-work on energy projects. We back together the Nabucco project, but we also envisage other energy transport projects, like for instance from Romania to Turkey and to the Western Balkans. We talked about projects implemented with EU funding, the Danube Strategy and some concrete investments we could make, a new hydropower plant on the Danube, the infrastructure to the freshly inaugurated Calafat-Vidin bridge which obviously needs the accompanying infrastructure as well,'' Ponta said.