Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu announced on Thursday the ministers that they could pay “including the function” if there are no consistent progress in the chapter of the reforms in the National Recovery and Resilice Plan (PNRR).
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The prime minister declared at the beginning of the Government meeting that the realization of the reforms in the National Plan of Recovery and Resility (PNRR) becomes the main criterion of evaluating the activity of the ministers.
“The priority of the last days was to regain efforts to recover all the delays in the PNRR. We agreed the solution with European experts, follow the meetings with reform coordinators to maximize the chances of completing each important investment in this program.“, The prime minister said.
He mentioned that he would not hesitate to take severe measures where there are no consistent progress in the coming months.
“I want to announce that PNRR reforms are becoming the main criterion for evaluating the activity of ministers. I will not hesitate to take severe measures where there are no consistent progress in the coming months. Who cannot hold the pace will pay, including with the function“Added the prime minister.
On Wednesday, Ciolacu stated that Romania has to recover the gaps in the PNRR, and that discussions between ministers and representatives of entities that manage projects financed from PNRR would take place at the end of February.
“The development of Romania also depends on how we mobilize to attract the money that has been allocated to us from the budget of the European Union and to recover in the next period the big gap we register in the implementation of PNRR. And the years 2025 and 2026 are defining to achieve these goals, if we want and can adhere to 2026, as we have proposed, to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.”, Stressed Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu.
Cristian Popa, a member of the Board of Directors of the NBR, in terms of milestones and targets, Romania has fulfilled only 14% of what it has taken, “With 448 milestones left out of 518 (European Commission data) ”:
“This means that the pace of absorption and implementation is extremely slow. Without reforms, respectively fulfilled milestones, the billions will not come. In addition, Romania was the only country in danger of suspending payment commitments or payments, based on Article 10 of the Regulation of the Redress and Resility Facility, which sanctions the Member States that does not correct the ExcessV“, stressed Cristian Popa.
