The VAT cut measure is equally enforced by other European Union countries such as Belgium and Germany, to ensure social protection and a higher VAT collection rate to the state budget.
The Government also decided to ask the European Commission EC to redirect EUR200 million to rural infrastructure programs and cancel projects of hundreds of millions of euros which lack co-financing.
Also, the Executive will set up over the next period a credit fund from rural development allowances, in partnership with banks.
The prime minister and the minister of agriculture will hold a news conference Tuesday on the Government’s priorities in the agriculture sector.