The Ministry of Investments and European Projects (MIPE) will analyze, from the beginning of next year, the mechanisms for streamlining the wage fund, so that employee motivation does not decrease precisely at a time when there is a great need for European funds, declared on Thursday the Minister of Investments and European Projects, Dragos Pislaru, during the briefing at the end of the Government meeting.
He was asked how the 10% reduction in personnel expenses within the ministry he heads would be done and if he would agree to a cut in bonuses.
"The Ministry of Investments and European Projects has had a whole series of internal reforms, of expenditure cuts. We are talking about rent expenses cut by 20%, personnel expenses, cut by 22.7%. I am talking about the net, the impact on the net salary of MIPE employees, the non-receipt of new transfers and secondments. These are things that I have already done as a good manager, as a manager in this institutional framework. I believe that the Ministry of Investments and European Projects, with a 22.7% reduction in net salaries, has already taken an important step in this direction. There are countless other ways to streamline the salary fund that I will certainly present to you, after an internal debate, discussion with the union, there are many steps that should not be ignored. "I have this intention, from the beginning of next year, to sit down to see what mechanisms, together with my colleagues, we can take, so that the motivation of employees does not decrease exactly in a period when we have the greatest need for European funds and, at the same time, to show that the ministry I coordinate also has a very clear understanding regarding the efficiency of centralized public administration," Pislaru mentioned.
At the same time, he emphasized that in June 2025 there was an administrative reorganization of MIPE.
"The ministry that I coordinate, the Ministry of Investors and the European Project, is a large ministry. It is a ministry that has staff at the central level, staff at the territorial level, it has many seconded staff positions, it has many contractual staff positions. These are things that require a judicious analysis. At this moment, I do not have an idea of Procust's Bed in which to say that in each direction, service or something, we have to cut 10% or any percentage. What I can tell you is that in June 2025 there was an administrative reorganization of the ministry to put the Just Transition Program back on track. Only last week did we manage to regain the system audit at the transition level, so that we could resume payments. This is another thing that has been fixed during this period of government. The legislation states that you are not allowed to carry out the reorganization for six months, if it took place in June. Therefore, I will not hide from you the fact that I did not stay to focus on the area of internal reform because I had no way of producing this reorganization. I believe that any institution and any management must look from time to time at institutional performance, efficiency, and staff motivation, and I intend to do this starting in January. Then we will see exactly what measures are necessary to reduce this salary fund, assuming that the reform takes the form that we are now discussing in the public space", the minister added.
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