Five examples of how rural Romania uses EU funds to finance its transformation

Several communes in Romania have managed to use European money to improve their citizens' life, becoming real examples of the good use of EU funds.

Romania still ranks low among EU Member States when it comes to absorbing EU funds. For example, data presented by a local publication earlier this year showed that the country failed to spend some EUR 1.64 billion of the EU funds allotted to it in the 2007-2013 EU financial exercise, the sum representing a third of the total unspent funds in EU in this period. However, some of the country's communes discovered the recipe for success, using EU funds to develop their communities. Here are five of them: