Romania’s Government will pursue big reforms in four areas (pensions, incomes, education, and public administration) this year, announced prime minister Florin Citu along with the publication of the 2021 budget planning, Adevarul reported.
As previously announced, the public deficit is planned to reach 7.16% of the GDP this year, down from 9.8% of GDP last year, according to Romania-Insider.com.
PM Citu assured that he would get involved personally in promoting these reforms and thoroughly evaluate each minister’s performance at the middle of the year when the budget execution for the first half of the year becomes available.
He stressed that the incomes in the budgetary sector were frozen, and he expects from each minister and state-owned company a plan of reforms by mid-year.
Compressing the public payroll, pensions, and other social benefits within the legal provisions is one of the main elements supposed to support fiscal consolidation, judging from the measures outlined by PM Citu.
The bonuses and other benefits will be maintained at the level of December 2020, and the holiday-related bonuses and vouchers are waived.
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