Romania’s National Bank (BNR) chief economist suggested that public sector employees should work only four days a week and have their wages cut by 20%. He also claimed that “it is not normal at all for the average salary in the public sector to be higher than in the private sector”. Fiscal consolidation emerged as a hot topic on the public agenda, as the country’s public deficit will exceed 9% of GDP this year. Without such measures, the public deficit will exceed 8% of GDP next year.
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