President Traian Basescu held a press conference on Thursday, at the Presidential HQ. Read in the text his most important declarations.
About consultations with political parties
- the conference is motivated by the meeting with political parties, by the well known theme
- I want to lay out the discussions we had
- talks were conducted in a constructive athmosphere, both with the governing coalition and with the Social Democrats
- I continue to regret the absence of the Liberals
- we analyzed the main parameters of the 2010 state budget
About the 2011 state budget
- is projected on a deficit of 4.4% of GDP, almost 6 billion euro that we need to borrow
- I warned parties about the meaning of the loans for 2011
- the main event is that the public debt will rise to 39.5% of GDP
- we still have a very high percentage dedicated to social spending and pensions
- we have higher spending than revenues
- there are parts of the budget that still do not look good
- the 2011 state budget will continue the process of fiscal consolidation
- we will continue to cut costs, either social costs or costs with the labour force
- I hope that the Finance and the Interior ministers start restructuring
About the new labour code
- I asked parties to have the labour code a priority
- I did not receive a generalized positive answer
- the political needs to adopt a more flexible approach of the labour code
About the law on education
- I sustain the law on education in its form
- things cannot continue in the same line
- we need to have a modern educational system
- we cannot sacrifice the future generations for the sake of deans or union leaders
- it is clear that something must be done
- the law on education cannot have worse results than the current law
- about Schengen
- Romania will have a good report on its readiness to join Schengen
- there are countries that couple Schengen to the inefficiency of the justice system
- there is no other judicial system that affected its citizens more than the Romanian system affected the Romanians
