The Profiteers of the Hungarian-Romanian Border Area
Dozens of millions of Euros were spent on roads across the Romanian-Hungarian border that lead nowhere.
A team of three Hungarian journalists living in Hungary and Romania investigated the story behind the useless roads. The roadworks were started within the Hungary-Romania Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013. The roadworks are estimated to have cost 23 million Euros by low estimates. Other sources put the final price tag as high as 55 million.
The reason for the blocked roads is simple: Romania is not yet a member of the Schengen area. Therefore, border checkpoints need to be installed on any road crossing the border between Romania and Hungary. This, however, is often delayed because the authorities in Bucharest fail to propose a solution. Read more
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