Boc: The E.U. Money Is For The Budget Deficit

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Prime Minister Emil Boc yesterday told Parliament that the money borrowed from the European Union would be used to finance the budget deficit and not for paying pensions and salaries. "The loan from the European Union is to be used for financing the budget deficit. The deficit we have today only concerns investments and we want to keep it that way. The money we are borrowing is in fact intended to preserve existing jobs and create new jobs by massively supporting public investments in infrastructure, transportation and health care," Premier Boc said.

Asked whether the European Union money might also be used to pay pensions and salaries, Boc repeated that it was only for investments: "Today, the money is allocated to investments. This is how it is put in the State budget. We hope we will never have to modify this strategy we have now."

• PM: "If they are not pleased with the Single Salary Policy Law, they can quit!"

During discussions about the Single Salary Policy Law hosted by the Ministry of Labour, Prime Minister Boc said that those who did not agree with such law and were still seeking preferential laws should leave the public apparatus. He made reference to certain Secretaries of State from a number of ministries, NewsIn reported.

"There is no disagreement within the Government about the Single Salary Policy Law. We have a unitary point of view that we need a single law. I want to tell the Secretaries of State who have a different view that they can forget about it or quit," Boc said. He stressed that the Government had the political will to put the Single Salary Policy Law in place. "I want to make it crystal clear that the Government has the political determination to create a Single Salary Policy Law for the State employees in Romania. One single law for all the people who are paid with public money," he said.

In turn, Labour Minister Marian Sarbu added that "the main objective we have now is to map the different positions in the public system".