Romanian government's second package of reforms has no clear calendar

Prime minister Ilie Bolojan announced on July 2 that the government would come up with a second package of measures by the end of the month to promote important reforms such as changes to special pensions - a milestone in the National Programme for Recovery and Resilience PNRR - the reorganization of public institutions and state-owned companies, the reduction of subsidies, as well as the phasing off of some bonuses in the budgetary sector.

However, PM Bolojan himself said this second package may be passed by the Parliament "later during the autumn," and the calendar turned uncertain after finance minister Alexandru Nazare explained that structural reforms such as those included in the package take two to three months to complete and Bolojan's advisor Ionut Dumitru admitted that some of them (such as cutting the "special pensions") are particularly complicated.