The reform of state-owned companies is a common sense emergency for any state that respects public money, the Minister of Investments and European Projects, Dragos Pislaru, said on Monday, inform Agerpres.
"We need to understand the real size of the problem: there are dozens of state-owned companies that accumulate huge losses annually, live off billions of lei in subsidies and block resources that should go into education, health and real investments. Some of these companies are today, de facto, a black hole for the Romanian budget. Deputy Prime Minister Oana Gheorghiu presented today the architecture of the reform: the reactivation of the National Committee for the Reform of State-Owned Companies, a sectoral map showing where it makes sense for us to be present as a state, a single registry of state-owned companies and a real, phased process, starting with a pilot project of 10 companies in Energy and Transport," the minister wrote on his Facebook account.
He stressed that he fully supports this direction, noting that the reform of state-owned companies "is not about cuts only on paper, but about responsibility".
In his opinion, from the perspective of the Ministry of Investments and European Projects, the reform of state-owned companies is also a European obligation. "We have milestones in the PNRR related to professional appointments and the restructuring of loss-making companies, and access to European funds depends on these changes. We cannot hope for a competitive economy generated by European money, but based on the foundation of politicized and underperforming companies. The reform of state-owned companies is an act of respect for people: for those who pay taxes, for those who work correctly and for the generations to come. It is time to stop waste and black holes. It is time to introduce performance into state-owned companies", the Minister of Investments and European Projects, Dragos Pislaru, also wrote on his social media.
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