Ponta called on Cabinet ministers to have a new round of talks with the Finance Ministry until then.
The Government plans to cut the budgets of several ministries, as well as of the Senate, the High Council of Magistrates, the High Court of Justice and the public television and radio, and raise those of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) and the ministries of Agriculture, Health, Interior, Education, Justice, Regional Development and Tourism.
The budget deficit will be kept at 13.6 billion lei, or 2.2% of GDP.
The Government last revised the state budget in August.