Mureșan government proposes competitive privatization of TAROM and stock listings for Otopeni Airport and Constanța Port

In a governance program presented to parliament, designated prime minister Siegfried Mureșan notes that the state has exhausted the final EU-permitted restructuring aid for TAROM, eliminating any further direct or hidden public financing. The proposal calls for a timed, competitive privatization of the national airline, with essential routes preserved via open public-service contracts. It also proposes listing portions of Aeroportul Otopeni and Portul Constanța on the stock exchange, halting the repurchase of minority shares, and granting new airport and port terminals through competitive concessions.

The plan opens the inter-county coach market to any qualified operator, mandates digital, non-discriminatory allocation of rail routes, and sets competitive tendering for passenger rail contracts from 2028, with new state-owned trains operated by the winning bidder and profitable routes auctioned to operators who pay the state. Metro services will receive compensation based on transparent, multi-year cost benchmarks, and a metropolitan authority with Ilfov will manage integrated ticketing. The document also suggests separating CNIR and CNAIR and evaluating them separately, aiming to shift state transport firms toward performance-based mandates and modern, EU-aligned networks.