Romania's ruling coalition agrees to cut 10% of the employees in local and central administration

The number of positions in each of the local administration units (including those vacant at this moment) will be cut by 30% under an agreement reached by the ruling coalition on November 11, development minister Cseke Atilla announced. This would result in an overall 10% reduction in the number of employees in the local administration – a ratio enforced for the payroll in the central administration bodies as well.

The agreement follows months of negotiations on the law that is supposed to be part of the second package of budgetary measures, to be legislated by the end of November.