COORDINATES OF THE COHESION POLICY IN ROMANIA DURING THE PROGRAMMING PERIOD 2014 - 2020

Romania is one of the countries that received non-refundable European financial assistance before becoming a Member State of the European Union The experience gained during the 2007-2013 financial programming period in accessing the European Structural and Cohesion Funds has enabled the learning of important lessons to facilitate, the establishment of areas in which there is a strong interest, the identification of investment priorities, the creation of an effective mechanism for coordinating the architecture specific to European funds, etc, for the current period 2014-2020, all of which are intended to ensure the absorption capacity of European funds is as big as possible and a harmonious development and sustainable economic growth across the country Getting nearer the end of the period, allows us to analyse the effectiveness of all these corrective measures by highlighting the absorption rates corresponding to the European funds allocated to Romania, the thematic objectives and operational programmes, thus getting a partial but important picture of our countrys progress in this field.