The Liberal Party (PNL) on Thursday validated the final list of proposed ministers for the new government set to comprise 16 ministries.
Besides the usual promises, the liberals propose concrete economic solutions as well.
* Unfreeze offshore natural gas investments in the Black Sea.
* List a stake in state-run companies (such as Hidroelectrica, Bucharest Airports National Company) on the capital market, concentrate investments in the energy infrastructure projects.
* Complete procedures and start construction work on the Sibiu-Pitesti Highway, on Bucharest’s highway-grade Beltway and the Pitesti-Craiova express road.
* Start procedures to begin construction of Tg. Mures – Iasi – Ungheni Highway using EU funds and complete procedures to build the Comarnic – Brasov Highway as a public-private partnership.
* Complete procedures and start construction of the regional hospitals in Iasi, Craiova and Cluj using European funds.
* Restructure tax authority ANAF so as to allow it to perform its duties without interference from politicians, become efficient in fighting tax evasion and speed up the computerization of the taxpayer-tax authority relations.
* Encourage use of natural gas drilled in Romania for electricity generation and for creating high added value petrochemical and chemical products.
* Relaunch of the nuclear program, with an active participation of the local companies, as well as of Romania’s partner countries.
* Encourage production of electrical and thermal power from renewable sources, especially in the areas without congestion of the grid operator.
* Launch of the 5G license auction while observing the terms of the memorandum (i.e. no Huawei technology) to combat cybersecurity risks generated by 5G providers signed in Washington D.C. on August 20, 2019.
* Revise labor taxation steps.
* Revise Emergency Ordinance 114/2018 (which introduced taxation changes) that had a negative impact especially in the energy, telecommunications, financial sectors and in the management of the pension Pillar 2.
* Upgrade the airports in Bucharest, Timisoara and Constanta.
* Public-private partnership in the IT public sector.
* Programs for occupational stimulation/reinsertion of those who went to work abroad inclusively.
* Devise common steps together with the business sector to get skilled workforce to return to Romania.
* Bill to drop additional excise duty on fuel.
* Promote the project to build the integrated production cycle (copper ore to finished product) in Romania in the copper industry, by identifying a strategic investor to make the finished copper products with high added value in the country.
* Reorganize the national company ROMARM by turning its subsidiaries into commercial companies whose sole shareholder is the government via the Economy Ministry and turn Romarm into a commercial company that operates as a foreign trade company to stimulate exports.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)