The Ministry of Finance under the leadership of Marcel Bolosh has prepared a project according to which it wants to select lawyers or law firms for international disputes, in particular in the case with Pfizer.

These are lawyers, regardless of the form of organization of the profession, from Romania and/or abroad, who specialize in international arbitration disputes and/or in national legislation specific to international litigation.

However, the project also contains a provision regarding the salaries of some employees of the institution, namely 10 people from the Main Legal Department: a 50% increase.

It is about those people who deal with the issue of those disputes.

THE PROJECT to raise salaries for employees of the Ministry of Finance and the fight against Pfizer – click to solve

We remind you that last week the Government authorized the Ministry of Finance to urgently hire an experienced legal company or firm to represent the interests of Romania in the case where Pfizer – BioNTech demands payment for all anti-covid vaccines purchased by our country within the framework of the Contract for Supply to the European Union signed in 2021.

What does Pfizer want from Romania?

Romania, represented by the Ministry of Health, was notified to appear on February 20, 2024 at 09:00 before the First Chamber of the French-speaking Court of First Instance in Brussels with the request:

• obliging Romania to fulfill the purchase contract by paying the price for the remaining 28,940,613 doses it purchased in the amount of EUR 564,341,953.5, accordingly paying to Pfizer Romania the sum of 2,780,851,410.07 lei, which may be increased under procedure time, plus interest at the refinancing rate of the ECB plus 5 points;

• ordering Romania to pay all legal costs and expenses related to the procedure, including costs related to the subpoena procedure and procedural damages set at EUR 22,500 (the base amount for monetary claims).