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The government will have, for the first time, a deputy prime minister on the “reform” issues of the budget system, in the person of the businessman Dragoș Anastasiu.
Dragoș Anastasiu, 61, is a graduate of medicine in Germany, where he lived for a while. In Romania he did business in tourism, transports and hotels, the best known being the Travel Agency and the Eurolines transport group. He was the president of the Romanian-German Chamber of Commerce.
In recent years, Anastasiu has been the head of the Nonguvermental Organization Rethink Romania, a think tank that generally grouped business people and dedicated, among others, to “limiting the number of public policies elaborated” on the knees “, without well -documented premises.”
From February 2025, Dragoș Anastasiu has held the position of honorary advisor of the interim president of Romania Ilie Bolojan, for the relationship with the business environment. “He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Federation of the hotel industry in Romania and spokesman for the Alliance for Tourism,” according to the presentation on the site of the Presidential Administration.
Politician: Anastasiu was a correct moderator at negotiations
Anastasiu remained a counselor of President Nicușor Dan and now, according to the political sources of Hotnews, will hold the position of deputy prime minister “for reform” in the Ilie Bolojan government. It will handle the restructuring of the budget system.
Together with Radu Burnete, an economic counselor in Cotroceni, Dragoș Anastasiu was part of the technical working group. “There were both correct moderators. They played this role very difficult: to take us to solutions that we all like,” explained a political leader who participated in negotiations as he saw Anastasiu.
On the other hand, sources from the business world characterized him, in a dialogue with Hotnews: “Anastasiu is called Rareș Bogdan of politics, because it has appearance, not a substance.”
In 2019, he spoke about the dismissal of 400,000 budgets
Anastasiu was one of the businessmen in the private area who spoke and advocated, permanently, to reduce the budget system. In 2019, he told German business people: “Prepare, the single share will be canceled and 400,000 budgets will be expelled.”
The statements about the imminent redundancies were resumed from the position of counselor in Cotroceni. “One third of the state employees are incompetent, brought on piles and relationships. They have to leave,” said Anastasiu, being compared to Elon Musk and the well -known Doge department.
He challenged the need for the statements of wealth of dignitaries and people employed in the public system to be transparent. “Let's get rid of this stupidity with the declaration of wealth put in public,” said in May 2025, in a show at First News, Dragoș Anastasiu.
