The government’s proposed budget revision was not granted a review by Romania’s Supreme Council for National Defense due to budget cuts it stipulated for national security institutions.
“Any delay of the budget revision can have negative effects. Part of the salaries budget will remain unguaranteed for public entities in September. If this gridlock remains, some of the investments might see a lack in financing for public projects,” Teodorovici told a news conference.
The finance minister added the delay would also affect the reimbursement of farmers whose pigs were sacrificed to contain the African swine fever epidemic.
Teodorovici also requested the declassification of the meeting’s transcript, saying the opinion of the council’s individual members was different from the conclusion drawn by President Klaus Iohannis.
Iohannis announced earlier on Tuesday that he had suspended the defense council’s meeting after its members failed to reach a consensus to issue a review on the government’s proposed state budget revision. He said the government had failed to provide an explanation as to why there were budget cuts for all of the country’s secret services, despite the revision being overall positive.