The BNS affiliated unions on Monday asked the President of Romania on Monday, during the discussions at the Cotroceni Palace to impose solutions to bring a fiscal balance and protect the workers.
President Nicușor Dan at the meeting with the unions from the Cotroceni Palace. Photo presidency
Following the open letter addressed by the National Trade Union Bloc (NBS), which reports that fiscal-budgetary policies are promoted without consulting social partners, the Presidential Administration on Thursday sent an invitation to the patron and trade union confederations to Romania.
“The position of the employers’ confederations, which refused to follow the invitation, preferring to avoid an open confrontation with the union partners such as VAT collection, combating tax evasion, the gray economy and maintaining about 1.5 million employees at the minimum wage level on the economy is particularly worrying.“, Informs NBS on Monday.
Thus, today, June 16, 2025, the National Trade Union Bloc sent to the President of Romania, during the discussions, a complex material, which proposes 8 essential measures for a sustainable process of reducing the budget deficit. Among the main aspects addressed are:
1. Repeal the provisions of GEO 156/2024, which restricts or suspends collective negotiations and applying collective labor contracts already signed by the parties, seriously affecting the social dialogue and the rights of the workers.
2. Elaboration of an institutional evaluation matrix and the emergency start of an audit of public institutions, in order to correct the dimension of human resources. We cannot accept generalized personnel discounts in the budget sector, given that, in the last four years, the employment has focused exclusively in the institutions with strong political control.
3. The implementation of the PNR milestone regarding the operationalization of the Monitoring Authority of the performance indicators of the public enterprises, and stopping the political control in appointing the state representatives in the management structures of the state -owned companies.
4. Identification of a package of measures leading to reducing the expenses with interest paid by the Romanian state.
5. Improve the collection of tax revenues, especially VAT, through the efficient use of personnel from institutions with control duties (police, anti -fraud, services, etc.), within mixed teams that act integrated.
6. Ensuring a unitary fiscal treatment for the professional income of natural persons, to discourage black work and fiscal optimization by setting up ghost companies.
7. Review of the royalty system for the exploitation of concessioned natural resources. Increased attention is required on concessionaires who unduly delay the start of the exploitation.
8. The request for organizing thematic working sessions with social partners on topics such as:
• Reorganization of the public sector,
• the absorption of European funds,
• resizing and efficiency of the state apparatus.
“It is absolutely necessary for the President of Romania and the future Executive to accept the BNS proposal regarding the establishment of thematic working groups, at least in key fields such as European funds, public administration, justice, taxation and labor market.
Only with the support of experts from trade union organizations can be proposed coherent and efficient measures to reduce the budget deficit and increase the degree of collection, thus avoiding the brutal restructuring and salary reductions ”, The trade unionists added.
At the same time, the NBS has firmly expressed its opposition to any salary diminution in the budgetary sector that is not based on an objective and transparent analysis, as well as the introduction of rudimentary taxes, such as “tax on any banking transaction”.
Dragoș Anastasiu, presidential counselor, said that there is no time for “microsurgery”, as Romania’s financiers are waiting for concrete and immediate measures to reduce the budget deficit.
According to him, the working group constituted at the level of the Presidential Administration has been focused exclusively on identifying solutions to reduce public spending, and the new Government will, punctually, adopt the most efficient measures.
The President of Romania, Nicușor Dan, stressed that the responsibility of adopting the measures to reduce the deficit belongs to the future executive, but pointed out that Romania must present a credible plan to the European Commission until June 30.
From the national trade union block, the delegation was formed by Dingrigore Mare, Vice -President of the NBS, president of the national railway federation commercial movement; Cosmin Andreica, confederal secretary of BNS, Secretary General Federation publishing; Radu Soviani, expert in macroeconomic policies.
