Government doesn't know what the state budget law for 2011 looks like

In the week when the budget law - the most important piece of legislation in a fiscal year - should already be under debate in Parliament, nobody seems to know what the law looks like. The Finance Ministry says it is ready, but refrains from giving too many details, the premier's advisers cannot divulge the content of the law, but everybody makes reference to the fiscal-budgetary strategy for 2011-2013, which the Fiscal Council has criticised, and which trade unions say has already been withdrawn because, as Premier Emil Boc had allegedly explained, was just a mere working draft.
Official statements are contradictory.
"The state budget law and the social security law for 2011 will be sent to Parliament within the legal deadline, i.e. this week," says Finance Ministry state secretary Gheorghe Gherghina. "The law cannot be passed as long as the trade unions and the Government fail to reach an agreement on the minimum wage. We don't know when the law will be approved by the Government," says Andreea Paul-Voss, advisor of Prime Minister Emil Boc. "The budget parameters are set, they are those provided for in the fiscal-budgetary strategy for 2011-2013," says Gherghina, who has been in charge of drawing up of the budget law for years. No, Vass says: Any modification of the minimum wage leads to the modification of many other indicators. "The budget law is almost ready," Gherghina says. "We don't know what the budget law looks like," Vass says.