The New Government’s Priorities
The new ministers of the Bolojan cabinet have presented their priorities
Leyla Cheamil, 24.06.2025, 14:00
After weeks of intensive talks between the pro-European parties PSD, PNL, USR and UDMR on its composition, the new Executive in Bucharest headed by the Liberal Ilie Bolojan was sworn in on Monday by President Nicusor Dan at the end of a day with rapidly unfolding endorsement procedures. It is the end of an interim period and political instability with the Prime Minister’s new pledges to balance the finances of a state currently facing an unsustainable budget deficit.
The new Executive’s first session took place on Monday, when an ordinance on the functioning of the new cabinet was endorsed. Earlier, in Parliament, which had convened in a plenary session, Prime Minister Bolojan pledged he would take the necessary reforms to bring the country on a course of prosperity and development and that he would put order into the public finances and ensure a good governance with respect for citizens.
Some measures will be unpopular but without their enforcement Romania may run the risk of getting into an area of fiscal-budgetary uncertainty, the Prime Minister has cautioned in Parliament. “We are going to kick off a reform of the budgetary apparatus through a functional audit of the institutions and an administrative reshuffling. The public position will be conditioned on competence, integrity and results,” Ilie Bolojan says adding that Romania’s main issue isn’t the lack of resources, but the lack and waste of effectiveness.
In turn, the Interior Minister, the Liberal Catalin Predoiu, who is carrying on his mandate says that his ministry’s operative priorities remain the same adding and that in the area of public order, activities of combating organized crimes will continue.
The aforementioned phenomenon includes all the severe crimes such as drug and human trafficking, illegal migration, arms trafficking, cyber and financial crime, embezzlement, Predoiu has explained.
The Foreign Minister, Oana Ţoiu, proposed by the USR, says the future steps to be taken for the region’s security are linked to the decisions of NATO, the European Union and the Strategic Partnership Romania runs with the United States.
Also proposed by the USR, Defence Minister, Ionuț Moșteanu, has presented several priorities, such as a gradual increase of the expenses and investment in the country’s defence up to 5% of the GDP. During the interview session in Parliament, the country’s new Health Minister, Social-Democrat, Alexandru Rogobete, says that his priorities are raising the citizens’ trust in the country’s healthcare system and the progressive raising of funding this domain up to the European average. He said the pensioners would pay the social insurance contribution for sums exceeding 4 thousand lei and the taxation of medical leaves would not lead to a decrease in the patient’s income.
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