Labor Minister Marius Budai says the 9.4% of GDP related to pensions will be removed from the PNRR. He commented that, from his point of view, such a provision is an “anti-Romanian measure” that “dooms Romania’s elderly to poverty.”

“After my trips as a minister to the EU, after some discussions with the labor commissioner, after Marcel Colacu’s discussions with the social democratic family, almost certainly this percentage of 9.4%, this anti-Romanian measure, from my point of view. , that the randomly chosen year 2070, which even CE doesn’t understand, will definitely be removed from the PNRR. (…) This is not in any PNRR of European states, in any legislation. We were the only ones who condemned the elderly in Romania to poverty, Marius Budei said on Monday.

He specified that he had received the World Bank’s report on measures to implement the special pension threshold, which he handed over to the Prime Minister. Budai also specified that the issue of special pensions should be discussed with relevant ministers.

According to the minister, “due to this legal expression, special pensions, the European Commission interpreted that military pensions should also be included in this milestone.”

He said that he believed that military pensions were not special pensions, but that was how they were referred to by “others” in the PNRR.

“Because of that interpretation of a non-existent legal term, it was very clearly stated that there are military pensions, this is the interpretation of the European Commission. We said that, in our opinion, military pensions are not special pensions. We have a lot of reservists from Romania who, unfortunately, fell under the support measures we had this year,” explained Marius Budai.