President Nicusor Dan told a press conference in Brussels on Friday that he had discussed with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen about the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and the reduction of Romania’s budget deficit.

The two officials met on the sidelines of the European Council meeting.

‘We had a discussion in principle on the two topics that concern us: the deficit and the measures to reduce it, the PNRR and how to optimise the use of the funds available to us until August next year. That was the discussion,’ the head of state said.

The plan, along with the package of measures, will be presented to the European Commission.

‘We will have a set of measures, some of which are included in the governing programme. These need to be translated into legislative acts, and the Government has committed to having a first set of such acts passed by Parliament in an extraordinary session by the end of July. Some of them will be implemented starting 1 August, and others from 1 January next year,’ announced President Nicusor Dan.

AGERPRES