​Prime Minister Marcel Călăcu denied on Monday that he had ever discussed with PNL leader Nicolae Căuși the postponement of the increase in contributions to the second level of pensions from January 1, 2024, recalling that Romania had accepted the measure in the PNRR. “You cannot deceive the Commission, pass a stage and two months later change your mind and postpone the stage or change it. Because the moment you do that, the European Commission will stop your money for this reform, and I think we don’t want that,” Čolaku said.

“In Pillar II, we made a milestone. So sometimes I get angry and someone always wants to create some fake news. If I did not increase the level II, as the Romanian state suggested through the phase, and this coalition suggested when Mr. Nicolae Cuke was the Prime Minister, we assumed this increase. This was a milestone recorded in the PNRR. If I don’t reach that milestone, then the commission comes and stops the money.” This was announced by Prime Minister Marcel Cholaku on Monday.

When asked about who wrote the draft emergency order and whether he had spoken to Liberal Finance Minister Marcel Bolosh on the subject, the prime minister denied any involvement.

• “Talk to the writers, not me. I have a milestone that I did with Mr. Chuke. Mr. Nicolae Chuke and I never discussed not reaching a certain milestone.
• You cannot deceive the Commission, pass a stage, and two months later change your mind and postpone the stage or change it.
• Because the moment you do that, the European Commission will stop your money for this reform, and I think we don’t want that.” said to Cholak.

The Prime Minister wanted to announce that payment request No. 3 of the PNRR will also be submitted on Friday, where problems are expected with the negotiations with the European Executive on micro-enterprises.

• “The good news I can tell you is that on Friday we will be submitting payment request No. 3. (..) Payment request No. 3 will be submitted on Friday by the Minister from MIPE. Naturally, a negotiation procedure will be introduced at each stage.
• The more significant issues with payment requirement 3 are at stage 206 for micro-enterprises, but we will negotiate, we will see what measures are now in the budget in the “Train Ordinance”, as they say in the press and in politics, and I hope that we let’s continue negotiations.” also clarified the prime minister.

Cholaku, an attack on Bolosh: In my absence, Mr. Finance Minister was not bored again. He had to debunk tax measures that do not exist for 2024

Returning from his visit to the US, Prime Minister Marcel Čolaku criticized Finance Minister Marcel Bolos at a cabinet meeting on Friday over the GEO project on fiscal measures from January 1, 2014. “I noticed that in my absence, the Minister of Finance was not bored again. He had to refute the supposed tax measures, which do not exist for 2024,” said Cholaku.

The Prime Minister’s clarifications came after the media reported on Thursday that the Government is preparing to approve a new GEO project on fiscal budget measures from January 1, 2024.

The GEO project envisages a 20% increase in the salaries of high-ranking officials and teachers next year in two stages. Allowances will be kept at the level of December of this year, additional work will be compensated only by the corresponding free time, and the filling of vacant positions will be suspended, except for fully justified cases, which will be approved by the Government Memorandum.

Another measure provided for in this document is aimed at delaying for 2 years the increase in the contribution to the II level of pensions from 3.75% to 4.75% only from January 2026, and not from January 1, 2024, as was decided by the government earlier. GEO in March 2022.

After the scandal caused, including the statements of HotNews.ro Minister Bolos, who said that he does not believe that the budget can support this measure from January 1, 2024, and that the decision on the budget must first be made in the Coalition deficit.

Later, Marcel Bolosh returned to Facebook, saying that the increase in the contribution to level II pensions will not be postponed, but the problem of the sustainability of the deficit remains open and involves the identification of solutions that should be included in the fiscal and budgetary plan. strategy.

The Ministry of Labor, led by Simona Bukura Oprescu (PSD), stressed on Friday that it had not developed or initiated a measure to delay the increase in the contribution from the II level of pensions, nor had it received any such draft for analysis.

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