The government meets on Saturday, in a special meeting, to adopt the budget for 2025. The draft budget is considered “bought and balanced” by the Minister of Finance, Tanczos Barna, being built on a deficit of 7% and the same percentage allocated investments.
The project was analyzed by the Executive and Friday Photos Photos / Octav Ganea
The execution meeting is scheduled at 10.00, and on the agenda is the adoption of the budget project for 2025, to be sent next week in Parliament, with the beginning of the first ordinary session this year.
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu announced that “all prior procedures” were made on Friday so that the budget could be adopted on Saturday, “in a special government meeting.”
The draft law of the state budget was published on Thursday evening by the Ministry of Finance. Minister Tanczos Barna considers that it is a balanced and bought construction, built on a deficit of 7% and the same percentage allocated to investments.
Where the money goes
The draft budget on 2025 is not one of austerity, having the expenses a little higher than the previous year, explains Elena Calistru, a budget specialist. The Presidential Administration, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies will receive less money, while the information services will receive more funds.
According to the project subject to the public debate, the state budget is established revenues in the amount of 357,819.4 million lei and expenses in the amount of 744,554.8 million lei commitment credits and in the amount of 500,049.4 million lei budget credits, with a deficit of 142,229 , 9 million lei.
The draft state budget for 2025 brings increases between 5% and 15% for information services, and the Special Telecommunications Service (STS) will register a considerable increase of over 50%, the most significant increase.
Regarding ministries, transport, education, health, environment and defense will also have higher budgets, while in agriculture, culture and development funds have been cut. There is the greatest growth at the Ministry of Energy. At other ministries, such as development, budget has decreased.
At the defense, an increase of over 10 % of the expenses compared to 2024 is expected, which brings us to 2.25 % of GDP, ie about 42 billion lei.
