The rural development program in Romania and the place of LEADER program within its

The new National Rural Development Program 2014 - 2020 puts a far greater emphasis on the Leader measure through greater allocations regarding to funds towards this segment, and better partitioning through submeasures that make up this measure. The level of rural development in Romania is very low, and the lack of measures to support the rural Romanian environmental progress fail to appear, although the Romanian village had benefited in the past from such support based on European funds. Most likely, it is the last chance for Romania to align to the rural environment to other rural areas closer to the developed countries belonging to the European Union.