How much money can still be attracted through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan?
By the end of July, Romania must submit the revised form of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
Daniela Budu, 16.07.2025, 14:00
Projects worth approximately 6.3 billion Euros cannot be completed by August 2026, so they will be removed from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), where they were included for financing. The announcement was made on Tuesday by the Minister of Investments and European Projects, Dragoș Pîslaru, who stated that Romania must send the revised form of the PNRR to the European Commission by the end of this month. The official presented the conclusions of the meeting of the Interministerial Coordination Committee of the PNRR and gave details about the negotiations taking place during this period so that Brussels accepts the proposals of the Romanian authorities.
Dragoş Pîslaru explains: “The difference between the total loans, i.e. 15 billion minus 6.3 billion, means 8.7 billion Euros, which would remain in the PNRR, to which a package of measures related to resilience is added, which is the good news.”
The measures mainly target emergency medicine projects, proposed by the Interior Ministry, worth 540 million Euros, the Minister of Investments added. Dragoș Pîslaru, however, has given assurances that Romania will not lose anything from the financing coming from non-reimbursable funds. According to him, there will be some small adjustments, but there is no danger of failure to complete these projects by August 2026.
Dragoş Pîslaru: “Romania will not lose a single euro from the non-reimbursable component. This was also revalidated in Brussels last week and revalidated in the discussions we had now when the European Commission delegation came to Romania. We only have some small adjustments, some in excess, some in deficit, but there is no risk at this moment of having projects that cannot be completed by August 2026. The entire non-reimbursable component is currently agreed with the European Commission.”
In turn, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure also announces that Romania will not lose a single euro from the component allocated to this area within the Plan. Following technical discussions with representatives of the European Commission, it was established that the projects that remain in the PNRR will be fully financed from European funds, without the need for co-financing from the state budget. As for the projects that have been partially or totally excluded from the PNRR, no amount already spent will be returned. According to the relevant ministry, this means about 2.3 billion Euros invested so far in completed projects or those in an advanced stage of execution, which will be continued and completed through the Transport Program 2021-2027 or from other European sources, agreed with the Commission.
The technical discussions with European Commission experts on the changes that Romania wants to make to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan are expected to conclude next week. We remind you that the amount allocated to Romania for the implementation of the PNRR is 28.5 billion Euros, of which 13.6 billion Euros in the form of grants and the rest in the form of loans. So far, Romania has collected 10.74 billion Euros from the funds allocated for the implementation of the PNRR. (LS)
