Romania and Poland to step up cooperation

Romania and Poland have decided to step up bilateral cooperation in many areas of activity

Leyla Cheamil, 29.03.2023, 14:00

The Prime
Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki on Tuesday paid a visit to Bucharest
where he was received by Romanian President Klaus Iohannis and held talks with
his Romanian counterpart Nicolae Ciuca and Defence Minister Angel Tîlvăr.

We want that our close relations in term of security and
defence be doubled by a robust and fruitful economic cooperation according to
the potential offered by the two economies, the Romanian President said after
the meeting he had with the Polish official. Iohannis has added that Poland is
one of the most important trade partners Romania has in the region, with trade
exchanges, which last year reached an all time high, standing at roughly 11
billion euros.

In turn, Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă said the
Tuesday’s joint session of the two governments, Polish and Romanian, offered an
opportunity for the two sides to confirm their 2022-2026 action plan agreed
upon in the previous sittings. So, new bilateral goals and action plans have
been established for every ministry in fields like research, digitization,
SMEs, demographic growth, youth, sport, defence and transports.

According to Ciuca, the field of research,
development and digitalization is a major one and both countries have shown special
potential and common interests in identifying the solutions, which should
ensure its consolidation and development. The Romanian official has also
referred to the common interest in finding solutions for carrying on the
process of digitalization to the benefit of both the citizens and the small and
medium-sized enterprises.

Ciuca has also added that opportunities for continuing
the process of developing the road, rail and sea transportation infrastructure
have also been tackled.

The Romanian official has underlined the
importance of this infrastructure also known as Via Carpathia and the Rail-2-Sea
project, which is connecting two ports – the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanţa
and the Polish port of Gdansk at the Baltic Sea. There are elements, which we
are convinced they will continue to help not only our countries, Romania and
Poland but other countries as well, such as Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria in
the south, linking the southern part of Europe. And there are infrastructure
elements, which will help Ukraine as well Ciuca also said. He also referred to
the very good talks in the field of defence and the decision of setting up a
technical committee to operate in the defence field under the commitments
assumed in Warsaw last year. In turn, Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz
Morawiecki, has described the mutual cooperation as very good adding that the
economic growth in the two countries has made that the voices of Warsaw and
Bucharest to be better heard in Europe and around the world.

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