The reform of the central administration is a priority in the coming period, Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan declared on Friday, noting, however, that „results cannot appear overnight.”

„It is necessary to calculate the staff correctly and, where it is found to be over-dimensioned, to make staff reductions. We reduced the salary funds because, as I told you, we had ministries like the one of European Funds, which doubled their salaries after two increases. Now, it is so unfair to those who do the same thing in other ministries, on the other hand it is unbearable from a budgetary point of view and, three, there is no performance to be seen. If we had absorbed all the European funds and all the work had been completed, then, of course, those who were involved deserved to be paid. But if the European funds allowances or the increases were themselves an end in themselves, it is normal that we do not have performance”, Bolojan told Radio Romania Actualitati when asked about the reform of the central administration and whether he was considering staff and salary reductions.

He said that in the reform of the central administration, the approaches are different compared to the reform of the local administration.

„We also have to do this in the central administration and, the faster we do it, the greater the savings will be and this is a priority in the coming period. But here it must be said: the systems are also different compared to the local administration where, after you have made a decision, the action moves to the local administration; here, each ministry has different legislation, different typologies, different employment contracts, different approaches, a particular specificity and changes cannot be made, again, through a single measure. Measures must be taken for each one, which mean government decisions, mean emergency ordinances, mean amendments to laws and that is why the results cannot appear from one day to the next”, explained the prime minister. AGERPRES