Bolojan highlights PNRR achievements and accuses PSD of sabotaging pay reform law

Romania’s interim prime minister, Ilie Bolojan, presented the National Recovery and Resilience Plan as a broad investment program covering highways, public buildings, digital government, schools and hospitals. He also used the presentation to criticize the Social Democratic Party over a public-sector pay reform law, calling its position “an anti-reformist signal.”

At a government news conference, Bolojan highlighted the Moldavia Motorway, including 1.5 billion euros for the Focșani-Bacău section. He said more than 1.8 billion euros had gone toward energy renovations covering tens of thousands of buildings and more than 4.6 million square meters of residential and public space.

He also pointed to more than 300 million euros for a government cloud, which already connects over 30 public institutions, and more than 450 million euros for renewable energy projects totaling nearly 1,000 megawatts. Schools received 600 million euros for classroom and laboratory equipment, while more than 450 million euros supported vulnerable students in over 2,000 schools. Universities received more than 230 million euros for digitalization.

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Yesterday we completed one of the most important plans for Romania’s development.

Bolojan listed additional funding for water and sewage networks, more than 300 million euros for afforestation, and health investments that included 1,200 ambulances, hospitals, neonatal intensive-care units and more than 2,000 family doctors’ offices. The plan also financed 885 homes for young people from marginalized communities.

He said Romania had absorbed more than 90% of its grants and over 95% of its loans, based on figures presented by the Ministry of European Projects. Bolojan described the projects as having a direct effect on daily life, while framing the dispute over the pay law as a test of the government’s reform agenda.

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This is an anti-reformist signal.