Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu declared, on Wednesday, April 3, that Romania cannot support a budgetary system like the one we are in now, because it will not lead to development. However, Ciolacu wanted to specify that he solved a big problem of the budget system, the restructuring of the ministries.
The prime minister says that an administrative reform is also coming.
“Everyone has been waiting for this reform for 30 years, we also need an administrative reform. Not done flat out, depending on how many inhabitants, done strategically, on the list. That time was lost when they had to be done, as Poland did, because instead of having 10,000 projects with European funds, you were going for 4 or 5 integrated projects by region.
We are on the French administrative system, but they would have come with those regional governors who, through the budgets they had, would have balanced regional development, something we are still lagging behind. Look at how Transylvania has developed”, said the prime minister in an interview with DCNews.
The Head of the Executive specified that a lot of mistakes were made in 30 years, and the biggest mistake was not having a very clear, integrated vision, and according to needs, and that led to an exodus of almost 5 million Romanians.
“Romania cannot support a budgetary system like the one we are in now. Such a budget system will not lead to development. You went to a ministry, there were seven agencies for approval. After the reorganization, there is only one approval service. (..) You cannot reform without digitization, there is still a reluctance to digitize,” said Ciolacu.
“My big problem is that we have a lot of primary and tertiary loan officers, and there, through these restructurings, they are starting to disappear.
We had 16,000, I think the most in all of Europe, if not in the world. (..) All this trickery in the budget system is slowly, slowly starting to deflate”, said the prime minister.
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