Mircea Marian: "The reason why the Germans from Mercedes ran away from Romania is very simple: there are no highways, because the Tariceanu government proffered to spend the budget money for pensions."
The transport of a car on Romanian roads was estimated by Daimler - owner of the Mercedes brand - to almost 300 euro. On a Hungarian highway, this cost - which includes wasted time - reaches up to only 90 euro.
Besides the fact that in 2009 the state pensions fund could collapse, the liberals populist policy led to the loss of a eight hundred millions euro bussines, which would have created 2.500 new jobs. I know that Varujan Vosganian announced that the foreign investments from the first four months of the year reached 3.2 billions euro, but is this a strong enough reason to kick out Mercedes? Probably that other companies will avoid Romania for the same reason: bad roads, dangerous and more and more crowded.
"We can't intervene in a private environment", said Prime Minister Tariceanu. It's a lie, because the forming of a valid transport infrastructure - the same problem which troubled Ford, when it decided to came to Craiova - it's up to the Bucharest authorities. A few days ago, the Government decided the budget of the roads and highways company and diminished the incomes and sources from the budget with almost 200 millions dollars. Who is patient enough to study the old website of the road company can observe that the works at the Nadlac-Sibiu are almost at the same stage as four years ago. The fezability studies are being made again, new auctions are held, but the working yards do not seem to open. The section which that is going to connect Timisoara - the city where Mercedes intended to open its factory - to the Hungarian border is in the stage where, on one side, the auction winner for the execution is expected to be announced, and on the other, the technical project is not ready yet.
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Bechtel will finish in 2009, maybe, 24 kilometers of highway - a little electoral gift, on the verge of the parliamentary elections. As for the matter of utopic projects, nobody exceeds the Tariceanu government, which announces investments of 20 billions dollars for infrastructure, money that will be spent until 2013.
The Tariceanu-Orban conflict will be the last drop, because the Prime Minister doesn't have any interest in supporting his rival to the position of PNL president. No major project - the subway towards Drumul Taberei, the surrounding highway of Bucharest or the airport from the south of the Capital - will not progress. the funds being held by the treasury, and by the end of 2008 they will be redistributed arbitrary, through the government reserve fund, towards the PSD and PNL mayors. We can only wait that, in 2009, the liberals to get gentlemen Mitrea and Nastase back to the government, specialized in the fast spending of the public money. Contracts like Transilvania highway - without an auction, with secret clauses, without quantifiable costs - are representing the recipe through which the contractors, and the statesmen will be extremely pleased.
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