Prime Minister Victor Ponta asked Minister-delegate for Social Dialog Doina Pana to start talks with unionists on the draft state budget for 2013.
Ponta said recently, joint teams from the International Monetary Fund, the EU and the World Bank will come to Bucharest around January 10 to review Romania’s progress under a EUR5 billion loan agreement and discuss the draft budget for next year.
The draft budget will be debated in Parliament starting January 14 and a final vote on the document might be cast at the end of January, Ponta said at the end of the Government meeting.
The prime minister said he will soon appoint state secretaries, adding that ministers will have fewer advisers.
Ponta also highlighted that each ministry will restructure its apparatus and will cut personnel in overstaffed departments.