“Today, salaries in Romania are starting to be competitive at least with salaries in Hungary. On the western border of the country, there are a lot of Hungarian citizens who come to work in Romania, because in these border towns, Hungarian border towns, there are fewer of them than in the western part of Romania,” Christian Vasilka, State Secretary of the Ministry of Labor and Social Solidarity, said on Tuesday .

“Perhaps, in 10 years, we will also reach the level at which the more developed countries of Western Europe are today, although, I repeat: there are certain regions of Romania, such as Bucharest, Ilfov, Cluj, which have long been surpassed. regions in Western countries. There are areas where the standard of living is lower than in Romania, where even incomes are sometimes lower, especially in well-paid jobs. Or there are areas where the salary or the income may be a little higher than here, but the prices are also higher, and then the standard of living is not higher than in Romania,” the Min official said. labor

The Ministry is trying this year, together with social partners, confederations of trade unions and employers, to introduce the French system of professional reform, the introduction of electronic vouchers that workers will be able to receive and who will be able to acquire new skills in some key areas. “Usually we talk about digitization, green energy, foreign language, etc. This is both a national and a European concern. Obviously, some jobs will disappear, but we do not see this as a tragedy. For example, as a hundred years ago there were coopers who cleaned the chimney of the furnace, or there were citizens who cleaned your shoes, today these jobs no longer exist,” said the official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

Public policies, school and university programs and company strategies to prepare young people in Romania to be competitive in an economy based on new technologies and resources are analyzed on Tuesday in the new edition of the CursDeGuvernare (CDG) conferences, entitled “Brain factory: Training skills for industries with high added value – from school to university, to the system of continuous education.”