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| MEADIA HEADLINES 18/06/2010 |
| (2010-06-18) |
| Last updated: 2010-06-21 14:19 EET |
After initially deciding to cut public sector salaries by 25% and all pensions by 15%, the Romanian government is now only resorting to "protocol cuts", the daily Romania Libera notes. The newspaper recalls that Prime Minister Emil Boc "has promised to reshuffle ministers and agencies and to re-launch the economy, but for the time being, he has only announced a reduction in dignitaries petrol allowances and the incomes of persons who represent the state on management boards."
Fuel allowance reductions are expected to save thousands of euros each month. In turn, finance minister Sebastian Vladescu, quoted by Romania Libera, says that "in order for salaries and pensions to return to their current level in 2011", 100 000 state employees would have to be fired. The director of the National Bank Eugen Radulescu provides the solution in the daily Gandul. This would be a frustrating solution for any government , as Radulescu calls for all people hired due to their “connections” to be sacked. "Kafka’s novels depict a healthy world in comparison to what has happened in the Romanian public sector over the last 20 years.’’
About 330 000 people work or pretend to work in this system. Many of them ‘’were hired thanks exclusively to family or political ties.’’ The director of the national Bank points an accusing finger: ‘’instead of being out on the labor market, these people sit comfortably behind thick walls and cash hefty salaries, while their main occupation is making the lives of people who actually work as miserable as possible.’’ Daily Gandul concludes: ‘’the government will have to quickly show Romanians who it cares more about: the nieces and nephews of party, coalition and parliament fellows, who have all been randomly hired in the public system, or doctors, teachers and police officers.’’
For the time being, Evenimentul Zilei writes, ‘’the state salary reduction has been put on hold: some managers are overtly against it, while others are subject to the will of trade unions’’. The statement of the day belongs to one of Prime Minister Emil Boc’s political allies, Marian Sarbu, head of the newly created National Union for the Progress of Romania. A former Social Democrat labour minister, Marian Sarbu admits, for daily Adevarul, that ‘’the pension cuts were not necessary’’, claims that ‘’ MPs of the National Union for the Progress of Romania have not been asked their opinion regarding austerity measures’’, but insists that he backs the government ‘’because the country needs stability’’.
This stability, the daily Jurnalul National points out, provides cover for ‘’more than 90% of the Liberal Democratic Party leadership, which does business with the state.’’ Jurnalul National quotes these figures from an investigation run by the daily Financiarul. From the more familiar cabinet members such as Elena Udrea, Radu Berceau and Adriean Videanu, to the former prime minister (and now Euro MP) Teodor Stolojan, ‘’Liberal Democratic leaders, the owners of businesses run on public money, lay the ground for a new party and state bourgeoisie’’, the Jurnalul National adds.
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