Moldova will receive €63.8 million from the European Union under three financing agreements. The fourth agreement supplements a financing program under implementation with €5 million, Info-Prim Neo reports. Prime Minister Vlad Filat said the four agreements represent an assistance package on which the Government and the EU Delegation to Moldova as well as experts of the European Commission worked throughout the year. “This assistance supplements the agreements we signed earlier, which allows us to say that the Government of Moldova uses the whole assistance provided by the EU to make progress on the path to European integration,” Vlad Filat said during the signing of the documents. The €42.6m agreement on the budget support program for the reform of the energy sector aims to support the implementation of Moldova’s Energy Strategy until 2020. “The strategy actions are designed to increase the efficiency, competitiveness and safety of the energy sector, enhance Moldova’s energy security, modernize the existing energy infrastructure, improve energy efficiency and the use of renewable sources of energy, and to integrate into the European energy market,” said the Premier. Under another agreement, €5 million will be allocated for supplementing the sewerage and drinking water supply component of the budget support program. “The additional funds and the previously provided ones will help ensure 110 000 new connections to the drinking water supply in rural and urban areas and about 50 000 new connections to the sewerage system,” said Vlad Filat. According to the Prime Minister, the third agreement extends the implementation period of the budget support program in the healthcare sector for one more year in order to enable completing such important measurers as the reconstruction of a medical training stimulation centre and the attraction of investments to modernize the National Clinical Hospital. About €4.47 million will be allocated for the purpose. “The fourth agreement to the value of €16.2 million will finance the repair of a road that bypasses Ungheni town. The given road segment is 7 kilometers long and is part of the Chisinau-Ungheni-Sculeni highway. The repair works are set to start next year,” Vlad Filat said. The Head of the EU Delegation to Moldova Dirk Schuebel said the assistance offered by the EU will significantly contribute to Moldova’s economic development.