American plan for the poorest region of the country: modern roads and railways to connect Moldova with the Via Carpathia highway

Adrian Zuckerman specified that the northeast region, the poorest in the country, could be connected with a highway and rail to the Via Carpathia infrastructure project. This is the road that must connect the Black Sea with the Baltic Sea and pass through seven countries, including Romania.

According to the ambassador, the talks between the American and Romanian officials have already begun, at this moment the financing solutions for the two projects are being sought.

“I met last week with the Minister of Transport to make plans, to see exactly the route of the road and the route of the railway. As we speak now, there are groups from the Ministry of Transport and the embassy that are working now and that are looking to finance and pay for it. Both on the road and on the rail, between the two seas in which we were working with Poland, they will do the part in Gdansk and we start here and I hope it will be done. In the next 3-4 years, I expect both projects to be completed, ”said the ambassador.

The Via Carpathia project is developed within the framework of the Three Seas Initiative, which is a flexible and informal political platform at the presidential level, bringing together the 12 EU Member States between the Adriatic, Baltic and Black Seas (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia). , Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia).

The highway project was established as part of a Tri-Country Summit initiative in 2018, and recently, US officials announced that the United States supports the project.

Via Carpathia would start in Lithuania and go through Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece. The highway would go from the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda to the Greek port of Thessaloniki, cutting through Romania on its western side. The ports of Constance (Romania) and Gdansk (Poland) are not on the direct highway route, but will be connected to it by other parts of the highway (Constance – Bucharest – Pitesti – Sibiu – Lugoj highway in the case of Romania) .