Romania’s 09 Budget Priorities Are Econ Devt, Invest, Low Income People’s Protection – PM

He also said, after a meeting between the leaders of the two governing coalition parties, the Democratic Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party, that the Cabinet is still analyzing staff cuts within ministries.

Boc added that the priorities would be detailed by the Government by Thursday, when the final draft of the 2009 budget should be approved.

The two parties’ leaders met Monday morning to talk about the 2009 budget draft, one of the issues being the hike of low salaries and pensions as of this spring.