Ciolacu: “Budget reform and territorial regionalization must be done in Romania” – 25.04.2024

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu declared on Thursday, in Timişoara, that territorial regionalization and budget reform must be done, after an analysis and study exactly in each county, reports Agerpres.

“Budgetary reform and territorial regionalization will have to be done in Romania. Truly, those under 1,000 inhabitants will not have to be done strictly. We need a very clear analysis and we need to come up with a plan. We have the public administration system, the INA system, the French system, that’s why they have regional governors, who intervene so that there are no more gaps between the development regions, what happened between Timisoara and Bacău, for example. This does not happen in any state or between Cluj and the south of the country. I don’t know if it’s still relevant. Instead of having 10,000 projects with European funds, you had two integrated projects. had an absorption of European funds of 110%. Romania had 54%”, said Marcel Ciolacu in a press conference.

He added that a reform must be made in the central and local public administration.

“Certain steps were lost, but fundamentally, as in the public administration, where a reform must be made, both central and local, and regionalization will be necessary. This does not mean that they will be abolished, there will be regions, the projects will be submitted together and certain mergers will be made, but after a very precise study of each county separately. It’s a depopulated, mountainous area, you have to come up with balance instruments, you have to cover the gap,” explained Ciolacu.