{"id":12548,"date":"2026-10-20T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12548"},"modified":"2026-10-20T07:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:00:29","slug":"candidate-transport-minister-pledges-to-keep-romanias-flag-carrier-tarom-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12548","title":{"rendered":"Candidate transport minister pledges to keep Romania&#8217;s flag carrier Tarom alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier will continue operating, \u0218tefan-Ovidiu Popa, the candidate for minister of transport and infrastructure, said during his hearing before the parliamentary committee on October 19. The incoming government\u2019s programme envisages attracting a strategic investor to acquire a stake of 20\u201349%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will do everything possible\u201d to extend the deadline set under the restructuring plan approved by the European Commission in 2024, he said, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profit.ro\/stiri\/politic\/tarom-nu-dispare-nu-se-inchide-este-un-brand-romanesc-care-va-trebui-sa-existe-in-continuare-anunta-viitorul-ministru-22861344?mc_cid=b336745cf5&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\">Profit.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have to submit the revised reorganisation plan to the European Commission by December 31, 2026, and I can tell you right away that Tarom will not close. Tarom is a Romanian brand that must continue to exist. I will meet with the management, and we will establish the details from there,\u201d the ministerial candidate said.<\/p>\n<p>The Luca Niculescu government will support a revised two-year business plan for the national carrier before the European Commission while also seeking to attract a strategic investor, either for a minority stake of 20-49% or for a majority stake, according to the governing programme of the prime minister-designate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe support the revised two-year business plan before the European Commission, which must demonstrate Tarom\u2019s viability by December 31, 2026, and protect the approved state aid of EUR 95.3 million. With the installation of professional management, we will conduct a transparent and competitive procedure in 2027 to attract a strategic investor (a minority stake of 20\u201349% or a majority stake), while maintaining technical maintenance services and essential domestic routes through competitively assigned public service obligations,\u201d the government programme states.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier will continue operating, \u0218tefan-Ovidiu Popa, the candidate for minister of transport and infrastructure, said during his hearing before the parliamentary committee on October 19. The incoming government\u2019s programme envisages attracting a strategic investor to acquire a stake of 20\u201349%. \u201cWe will do everything possible\u201d to extend the deadline set under the restructuring plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}