Romania’s talks with the IMF, EC move to Brussels

Representatives of the Romanian Government and of Romania’s National Bank will go to Brussels next week for the next assessment of the stand-by agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Commission and World Bank. It’s for the first time that the talks take place outside the country and without the President, local political parties or unions to attend these talks, according to Mediafax. Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta said that the ministers who will go next week to Brussels will have only technical talks with the European Commission and the IMF and that “there will be nothing to negotiate”. The official negotiations will take place in Bucharest at the end of November, after the presidential elections. Finance minister Ioana Petrescu, transport minister Ioan Rus and the new budget minister Darius Valcov, will be part of the Romanian delegation to Brussels. editor@romania-insider.com