How does Kotrocheny see the possibility of giving up 3 billion euros from PNRR to preserve special pensions? Responding specifically to this question, President Klaus Iohannis avoided a sharp answer. “We need to get to the bottom of the problem,” he said, preferring a principled explanation.

More precisely, “the pension system must be sustainable.”

“We must see the essence of the problem. The pension system must be stable. This means that pensioners have to get their rights for working life, but we have to make sure that after 10-20 years they get their pension. That is what it means to be a sustainable system, and the goal of the reform is to create a fair, just, sustainable system. And this should be exactly the project that I expect from the relevant ministry and the coalition. (…) We must remember what is the basis of the discussion, and the basis of the discussion is that pensioners have the right to their pension, which they can live on, which is fair and guaranteed for a long time,” Klaus Iohannis explained. .

You can follow Johannis’s explanation from minute 12:05:

Investments and European Projects Minister Marcel Bolosh (PNL) suggested in a government statement on Wednesday that Romania may abandon the reform of special pensions. He referred to the danger of destabilizing some areas of “national strategic importance”, a risk that should be accepted politically if it is decided to meet the conditions set by the European Commission, whose tolerance, he commented, “tends to zero”.

In an interview with Europa fm, the president of the PSD, Marcel Colacu, said that he hopes that in the coming weeks the parliament will vote on a law on the reduction of special pensions, which “will be constitutional and will not create chaos in Romania.”

“There is a big discrepancy between the practice in the European Union, I mean judicial pensions, public order pensions, national security pensions, and what we assumed in the PNRR. Decisions and discussions with the European Commission must be very balanced. If at this moment we accept ad-litteram what we assumed in the PNRR, we will free the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Interior, Justice, all services of Romania. If we want it, I don’t want it, we’re going ad-litteram (…),” said Marcel Cholak on Europa FM on Wednesday.

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