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A great part of the financial resources of the budget will be earmarked to the Heathcare and Education sectors, Public Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici stated on Tuesday.
"Healthcare and Education won't necessarily be favorites, but these are the sectors where we politically decided to allocate a large part of the budget financial resources. It will definitely be 2 percent for Defence, as it was promised, it will be respected, and, of course, the investment in the public sector, support for the economy, various interesting and attractive state aid schemes," Teodorovici stated at the Palace of Parliament.
When asked why there have been so many versions of the budget draft, Eugen Teodorovici mentioned: "Because our wish is that a great part of the money available be directed towards the important areas of our economy and you will see in the budget proposal areas such as Healthcare, Education, Investments. We have all said it for a long time and you will see that the difference between last year and this year on various sectors of economy will be a very large one, a substantial one."
According to him, the delay in adopting the 2019 budget "has absolutely no impact."
When asked if there are cuts in the Presidential Administration budget, Teodorovici said that there are the proposals convened in the discussions with the structures involved.
In respect to the refund of the environmental car registration tax, Teodorovici said that the draft budget provides the necessary amounts for reimbursement.
Asked if the staff expenditures would be cut down in the 2019 budget, he said: "Last year, we, as well as other colleagues at the Government, the coalition level said the same thing: the administration must be, in principle, a supple one, efficient, it must work to the benefit of the citizen, not to block. It must be as supple as it should."
Furthermore, he showed that we works very well with Darius Valcov, who is the PM's counselor.
