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PM Tudose during a meeting with Oettinger contradicted sources that deficit would be 4pct
Prime Minister Mihai Tudose said Thursday that his meeting with the European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources Gunther Oettinger was "very good," and that the latter contradicted the "sources in Romania" that Romania's government deficit would be 4 percent."That was a very good meeting. He allowed himself to contradict — insert quotation marks — sources in Romania that have said the government deficit is 4 percent. He came out publicly to say he was optimistic about Romania, and even happy with certain areas, and that, from their data, the targeted deficit is below 3 percent both in 2017 and 2018," Tudose said at the beginning of a government meeting.
He said that the European official had a meeting with the minister of finance where he was unveiled the tax measures the Romanian Government intends to introduce next year.
În turn, the ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) national leader Liviu Dragnea asks the European Commission to be "more reserved when releasing negative prognoses" about Romania's economy.
On Thursday night in a broadcast of the private TV station Romania TV, Dragnea said that during a meeting he had, alongside Premier Mihai Tudose, with the visiting European Commissioner Gunther Oettinger, he asked the latter that "Romania should be looked at as it really is" and not "as someone is imagining it."
"I told (Commissioner Gunther Oettinger, ed. n.) that from where we stand, the European Commission should be much more careful, much more reserved when voicing negative prognoses that have pretty nothing to do with reality, because it might arise a disorder in the system, mistrust within the population, disbelief within those who are willing to invest," the PSD leader said.
He assured that Romania will never exceed the 3 percent budget deficit in 2017.