I’m tired of all those who explain and tell us how it can’t be done / Every EU state must have some independence in deciding on salary, pension policy

The Minister of Labor, Marius Budai, declared on Sunday, on Antena 3, about the renegotiation of PNRR regarding the pensions, that he is tired “of all those who explain to us and tell us how it cannot be done. Each member state of the European Union must have a certain independence in deciding the salary and pension policy “, Budai also said.

“I’m tired of all those who explain to us and tell us how it can’t be done,” the minister said, adding that he had a discussion about the percentage in the PNRR for pensions and with the European Commissioner for Labor.

He continued: “I will not stop fighting PNRR for a moment, I guarantee you that it will be changed, in one way or another. Not modified, let’s clarify, modification may mean too much. (..) We do not want to take out a reform and introduce another effort, we do not want to jeopardize the application of the PNRR, but certain nonsense, and I say it with all responsibility, certain assumptions, without any professionalism, to you write in an official document of Romania, to the European Commission, to use the expression special pensions, we can use anyone, in public communication, not specialists, not me, anyone else, journalists, citizens who are not related to the pension system. (..) but not a Government that undertakes a reform by 2070 “, he said.

The Minister of Labor said that he was asked by European officials about this term introduced in the PNRR and did not know what to answer them.

“These things need to be improved, they need to be rectified. Each member state of the European Union must have a certain independence in deciding on the salary and pension policy. Not that someone writes to us there and we have to stay that way until 2070, because that’s what some people who had nothing to do with the pension system wrote and who didn’t care about Romanians “, said the Minister of Labor.

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