V4, Bulgaria, and Romania discuss future of pre-fab buildings

The Visegrad Four - Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic - as well as EU hopefuls Bulgaria and Romania have decided to speed up repairs on low quality pre-fabricated housing, a legacy of the countries' communist years. By the middle of this year, all projects that will be financed out of the EU's 2007-2013 budget, are to be completed. Representatives of the six countries discussed the future of their pre-fab housing estates at a meeting in Moravia's Lednice. A third of the country's 10 million inhabitants live in such estates.

Author: Dita Asiedu