Mayor of Bulgaria's Vidin Wants to Meet Transport Minister over Danube Bridge 2

Business | March 20, 2008, Thursday // 00:00

The Mayor of the northwestern city of Vidin requested a meeting with the Transport Minister so that the Ministry and the Municipality could define precisely their positions on the project for a second bridge connecting Bulgaria and Romania over the Danube.

The companies selected to carry out the construction of the Danube Bridge 2 project declined earlier the invitation of Mayor Rumen Vidov to participate in a working group for solving the relevant organization matters.

They rejected Vidov's proposal because they had made other arrangements with the Ministry of Transport.

According to Vidin's Mayor, the institutional interaction was not optimized, which did not favor the work of both the Ministry and the Municipality.

"Vidin Municipality will do everything it could so that the Vidin residents would receive objective information, because the bridge is a national project which is of critical importance for our region. I think we have the right to know what the realities are, and when there will be a bridge in Vidin," Vidov stated.

In 2000, Bulgaria and Romania signed the agreement to build the Vidin-Calafat bridge, which would cost a total of EUR 225.8 M.

The bridge will link the Bulgarian Danube port of Vidin to the Romanian city of Calafat by road and rail and is a key element of a European transport corridor from the German city of Dresden to Istanbul in Turkey.

The only bridge connecting Bulgaria and Romania currently is the so called "Friendship Bridge" between Ruse and Giurgiu built in 1954 by the Soviet Union.

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