Balgarianovinite.com The Romanian Government approved administrative staff cuts and an economic recovery package, following nearly eight months of delay, the Government announced at a press conference on Tuesday evening, broadcast live online.
Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said that the measures will lead to an improvement in the quality of public administration in Romania. It will provide better services to the population and will be more efficient, he added.
The reform provides for staff and spending cuts in ministries and municipalities. It will affect 45,700 positions, but the actual layoffs will target approximately 20,000 employees, local media reported. As part of the package, the Government also approved economic recovery measures worth EUR 5 billion for the next six years. The eligibility criteria for the aid schemes will be developed over the next 90 days and discussed with Romanian entrepreneurs.
Finance Minister Alexandru Nazare said that through the economic recovery package the Government is identifying the strategic areas Romania would need in the future, first and foremost to be able to attract major strategic investments. He added that in recent years the country had lost many large-scale investments because it lacked the financial capacity to offer strategic investors the necessary conditions to come to Romania.
The reform of the local administration is part of a third package of austerity measures aimed at reducing the excessive budget deficit the country has struggled with for several years. Romania’s budget deficit reached 9.3% of GDP at the end of 2024, the highest level in the European Union (EU). The country risked having its access to EU funding frozen, including funds from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, unless it convinced the European Commission that it was making sufficient efforts to reduce the deficit toward the 3% threshold set by the Maastricht criteria.
To avoid this scenario, as well as the risk of a downgrade in the country’s credit rating, Prime Minister Bolojan announced a series of austerity measures in July 2025. The Government has already approved two austerity packages, which include a freeze on pensions and salaries, increases in VAT, excise duties, taxes and fees, as well as reforms related to special pensions and state-owned enterprises to curb public spending.
In November, the European Commission agreed not to block Romania’s access to EU funds and accepted a target deficit of 8.4% of GDP by the end of 2025.
The austerity measures sparked protests by employees across various sectors. On September 8, the new school year began with a boycott in a number of schools, as thousands of teachers took to the streets. Their discontent was driven by longer mandatory teaching hours, larger class sizes, school mergers, reduced hourly pay, and other measures. On October 29, thousands of people joined a major rally in front of the government building, organized by the country’s four largest trade union confederations. Romanian Government Approves Administrative Staff Cuts and Economic Recovery Package 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-02-25 11:07:32 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law
