The Bulgarian Government has announced that the second Danube bridge, linking Vidin in Bulgaria to Calafat in Romania, will be complete by November 2012.

 

Transport Minister, Ivailo Moskovski, announced this week that 72 per cent of the long-anticipated bridge and 88 per cent of the surrounding infrastructure is now finished. The new completion date marks a considerable delay from the original predicted finish of 2010. The substantial postponement can be attributed to technical difficulties with land expropriation procedures and a series of disputes between FCC, the Spanish company building the bridge, and the governments of Bulgaria and Romania.

Between 2000-2010 trade between Romania and Bulgaria has risen more than tenfold and in 2011, trade between the nations topped €3 billion making Romania Bulgaria’s second largest economic power in the EU after Germany. Romanian tourists now outnumber other foreign visitors to Bulgarian resorts with 1.5 million holidaying in Bulgaria in the last year alone.

The introduction of the second bridge will continue to strengthen the growing relationship between the two nations and is predicted to greatly improve the development of Vidin and Calafat, which are currently two of the least developed areas in their prospective nations.

Sustainable territorial development of the areas will concentrate on promoting the cities as picturesque destinations for cultural, alternative and eco-tourism and will increase opportunities for transit tourism between the nations.

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