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The EUR143 million state aid was authorized in April by the European Commission. The investment aims at enlarging and upgrading two plants acquired by Ford for vehicle and engines production.
According to a draft law initiated by the Economy and Finance Ministry, Ford must invest EUR172 million in the vehicles plant and EUR5 million in the engines plant in 2009.
In September last year, Ford agreed to pay EUR57 million for a 72.4% stake in Romania’s Automobile Craiova assembly plant and pledged to invest another EUR675 million to upgrade the plant.