Danish Varde town to share experience with Chisinau in combating unemployment and developing infrastructure

The local authorities of the Danish Varde town are available to offer informational assistance to the City Hall of Chisinau as regards reduction of unemployment. There is not a single unemployed in Varde, the Mayor Kaj Nielson declared at the meeting with the interim Mayor of the Municipality of Chisinau, Vasile Ursu. Although taxes are high, the quality of public services is appropriate. This fact became possible due to grounding economy on the development of small and medium business, Kaj Nilesen mentioned. In Varde, different workshops, information exchange and know-how are organized so that people can be informed on how to start a business. According to the Danish Mayor, local authorities in Denmark are autonomous, so that taxes are collected and administrated by local authorities. Kaj Nielsen said that Chisinau could take over the experience of Varde in order to solve some ecological and infrastructure development problems. The Danish Mayor states that there also are possibilities for the development of commercial relations, especially in export of Moldovan wine, which is “wonderful and extraordinary”, according to Kaj Nielsen. However this should be the concern of businessmen who will examine this possibility, the Mayor of Varde town mentioned. The interim mayor of Chisinau, Vasile Ursu declared that it would be constructive if a delegation composed of Municipal councilors and responsible persons from the City Hall would pay a documentation visit to Varde. About 20 representatives of the municipality of Varde are paying a two days visit to Moldova, within the frameworks of “Strengthening capacities of local administration in evaluating region’s fiscal potential” project, organized in partnership with the Center of Analysis in the area of taxation and finance in Moldova and financed by the European Union. The project includes Ungheni town and Cahul raion as test-zones in evaluating fiscal potential. Due to the fact that Denmark is one of world’s most developed countries, it directs annually 2% of GDP for assistance and support to emerging democracies.