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| Proposals on Romania’s Regionalization |
| (2013-05-24) |
| Last updated: 2013-05-27 15:11 EET |
The regionalization project is, along with the revision of the Constitution, one of the big objectives of the ruling Social Liberal Union. Deputy Prime Minister Liviu Dragnea, in charge of the country’s administrative territorial reorganization into development regions, believes that if it is completed this year, it will already have effects next year. Dragnea has underscored that the future regions must be big enough to have the resources needed for large-scale projects, but not so big as to disregard the needs of small communities. If the political criterion is decisive in mapping out the future regions, there is a chance of failure.
Liviu Dragnea: “The main goal of regionalization is Romania’s balanced development. If the regions are not mapped out well, if they are mapped out through political negotiations, we will have a bad territorial organization and the new regions will operate poorly; and that means we will have failed. I think we have enough power and wisdom to use this opportunity this year in order to build an administrative pattern in Romania which should really create conditions for our country to develop.”
Liviu Dragnea has made it clear that establishing the regional capitals is the last but one stage of regionalization. And it may be the most difficult one, because the interests of big cities are at stake, cities which feel entitled to get the much coveted status and the ensuing benefits. The Ministry of Development run by Liviu Dragnea has commissioned a survey on people’s preferences for the future regional capitals.
The issue is clear as far as the residents in the North-Eastern, North-Western and South-Western regions are concerned. So, the cities of Iasi, Cluj, Timisoara and Craiova are deemed as favourite. In the Southern region of Muntenia, there is the dilemma of whether this region should include Bucharest or not, given that Bucharest is the main fund and investment absorbing center. If Bucharest is left outside Muntenia, the region risks being deprived of the human, economic and commercial inflows that the country capital benefits from.
On the other hand, if it joined the region of Muntenia, then there would be serious disadvantages related to the absorption of European funds elsewhere in the region. In case Bucharest is not included in Muntenia, the capital of the region would most likely be the town of Ploiesti. In the South-East, the port-city of Constanta on the Romanian Black Sea Coast comes first in the survey. A delicate problem will be establishing the capital of the central region, where the competition between Brasov and Sibiu is very tough. That is why, Minister Dragnea says, the best formula would be for the future regional capital not to concentrate all regional institutions.
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