Dancila added that the 2019 state budget bill is in an “advanced stage” of drafting at the Finance Ministry.
“We have the necessary resources to pay pensions and salaries, as we committed to in the governing program and the wage law. I want this to end speculations in the public space, we are responsible towards public finances, our decisions are based on solid reasoning. The Finance Ministry is in a very advanced stage of drafting the 2019 state budget. The budget bill will show the necessary amount for raising the minimum income and public sector salaries,” Dancila said at the beginning of the Cabinet meeting.
Speculations that the Romanian Government is facing financial problems sprung up after the leaking of a document sent by Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici to the European Commission, in which the minister proposes the measure of freezing public sector salaries in 2019 to reach the EU budget deficit target.