Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Baconschi said that, although the institution’s budget is 20% higher than that in 2011, it represents 0.0048% of the gross domestic product.
The ministry’s total budget amounts to 646 million lei (EUR148.4 million), up 19.53% compared with 2011. About 84.45% of this total sum is ensured from the state budget, and the remainder from the ministry’s own revenues or non-reimbursable funds.
(EUR1=RON4.3530)