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Romania’s biggest challenge to ensure a sustainable economic growth will be to overhaul the public energy and transportation system, as the operators in the field require additional resources from the private sector, an official of the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday.

Romania’s Senate Monday rejected 65 to 47 votes and one abstention the opposition Social Democratic Party’s simple motion against Transport Minister Radu Berceanu.

The European Commission aims Romania to submit a multi-annual financing plan for co-financing projects in the transports field, the country's Ministry for Transports and Infrastructure MTI said in a statement Tuesday.

Romania’s new center-left government committed to build nearly 1,000 kilometers of highway by 2012 and start works on another 720 kilometers of highway.

Romania has the necessary funds to develop infrastructure, but deadlines for works are not observed, state secretary in the Transport Ministry, Septimiu Buzasu, said Thursday.

Despite weather clearing, the situation in parts of Bulgaria after the massive snowfalls over the past two days remains critical, Novinite.com reported.