financial aid

Romania’s Government will eliminate the 230 lei (EUR1=RON4.1814) financial aid granted to mothers at childbirth, as well as the EUR200 aid for newlyweds at their first marriage, according to a draft ordinance decree to cut social spending.

Switzerland will provide financial aid of EUR7 million to Romania in 2010 to help the country develop its emergency healthcare services.

The European Commission agreed Tuesday to propose the European Council to provide medium-term financial assistance to Romania of up to EUR5 billion, as part of a multilateral package which will total up to EUR20 billion.

Nicolae Stanisor, mayor of Mateesti, in Romania’s southwestern county of Valcea, is outraged by the government’s decision to grant no financial aid to the families whose homes were destroyed by landslides at a mining debris site in the area.