The economy minister Adriean Videanu believes the sector under his management must become a supplier of financial resources for the state budget. The transport minister Radu Berceanu, whose budget has been reduced, has warned that he cannot perform miracles in the infrastructure, but has promised that 80% of the money allocated to his ministry will go to investments. Unhappy with his ministry's budget, namely 3.6% of the GDP, the health ministry Attila Cseke said he would have liked this figure to stand at 6%.

His goals are to make the health system more efficient, correlate resources with funding and find alternative financing solutions. The press notes that the ministries' staff will again do very well in this year of crisis because some of their bonuses and benefits may increase by up to three times. At the same time, newspapers write that although the prime minister and the labour minister say there's not enough money in the state budget and they are considering freezing the level of pensions, the parliamentarians supporting the government, namely the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians, voted in the specialist committees, alongside the opposition, in favour of increasing the pension reference value by 100 lei and reducing by 10% the amount of social security contributions.

Exasperated, the finance minister Sebastian Vladescu threatens to quit if Parliament approves the modifications to the social security budget made by the committees. “The parliamentarians are ignoring the government”, writes the daily paper Jurnalul National, noting that the members of the labour and social protection committees increased pensions under the nose of a powerless labour minister, after the government recently decided by an emergency ordinance to freeze the reference value for pensions in 2010.

The Liberal Democrats also made a mess of things in the health committees, Jurnalul National writes, as an amendment submitted by the Social Democrats to increase the health budget by 0.2% was easily passed because the Liberal Democratic MPs did not have the courage to vote against it in the committees. The government's last hope is for these amendments to fail in a plenary meeting of Parliament.