IMF, World Bank chiefs to visit Bucharest in near future

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Christine Lagarde and the World Bank President Jim Yong Kim are expected to visit Bucharest in the coming months, Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Thursday.

'The World Bank president is to come to Romania next month; Ms Lagarde, the IMF president, will come in June, if I am correct. All these things mean small parts in that puzzle and it is not only my visit to Germany or to Warsaw to see (Polish) Premier Donald Tusk or the visit to Spain (that are the ones that count - editor's note). All these things mean trust. We live in a global world, in which one cannot say ‘I am not interested in what happens beyond my borders',' Ponta told Digi24 news television.

The prime minister stressed the investments and the conquered markets amount to jobs and revenues to the budget.

When the show host remarked that confidence is easy to lose, but very hard to re-gain, Ponta said both he and President Traian Basescu have understood that 'any new internal conflict will cost Romania very much'.

He reiterated he might have a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel later this year and underscored 'The political relation with Germany has changed to the better and will keep changing'.

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