An incident about how the restructuring was done at one of the richest state institutions in Romania. “This is untouched, that he is Stănescu's man, and the function of the other cannot be abolished, that he is the man of Thuma”
ASF, the institution where the first five employees of the former leadership had all revenues of over 11,000 euros/month, was one of the budget of which the Government cut in Parliament on Monday. How did the discussions go inside?
The Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF) has a president who won in 2023, when the position was occupied by Nicu Marcu, 12,500 euros a month, with bonuses. Over the presidents of Germany and France.
The bank's bonust
The whole institution received four bonuses a year, each equal to a salary. For Christmas, holiday, performance and institution's day, celebrated as a landing in Normandy.
Everything was legal, in the collective labor contract.
None of the first five people went down below 11,000 net, monthly average, at the level of 2023. And they did not even want to make public the amounts.
In the same years, the market supervised by ASF recorded the third consecutive bankruptcy of the RCA insurance Insurance Leader. They sell a lot of RCA, did not pay the damage and flee with the money in the country. According to the official report, until the beginning of 2025, the latest two bankruptcy cost the state and the citizens 520 million euros. We have half a million injured, individuals and companies.
Dragoș Anastasiu at ASF
When the Government began resizing ASF, it was discussed with those in the management of the authority. They were talking about a new, small organizational chart. Dragoș Anastasiu asked. The character is known, we do not talk now that he has rightly settled what he did in the past with the bribe given at ANAF.
“Anastasiu asked him to explain what logic in the functionality of ASF has the existence of a president, a first vice-president, three vice-presidents with executive functions and three directors, exactly on the areas where the vice-presidents were,” says an expert from ASF, current with discussions.
The conversations were confirmed by two people – one of the authority, the other outside the institution.
The two specialists who spoke with HotNews under the condition of anonymity are hostile to the ASF leadership and the structure of bosses there. Even the interior specialist hates the endless waste of bosses, the private offices they have in several premises, the batteries, so the testimonies must be taken with shades.
Certainly, Anastasiu received from ASF the answer that it cannot be. Why? Well the bosses are supported. How? “This is untouched, that he is Stănescu's man from the PSD, and the function of the other cannot be abolished, that he is the man of Thuma from PNL,” people from ASF motivated.
Okay, let's laugh at the functions, it was the Government's reply. This is how ASF arrived in Parliament on Monday night, along with ANRE and ANCOM.
The prime minister beat their cheek: from now on, the law that you work forces you to transparency. The ASF chiefs had come to Parliament in 2023 and had challenged the senators, the deputies, the citizens.
A concrete objective is missing: doubling the education budget, for example
ASF is an example. These laws are not about Bolojan.
Like any chosen and dignitary politician, the Oradean can leave. Commit enough errors. It has a style of cutting, based on guilt: it mentions only bad. Rarely comes with positive examples. And it neglects, terribly, the need for mobilization.
The government only talks about cutting costs, and not about the cost of cuts.
You cannot hire a nation in austerity without telling him what the purpose is. Balancing the NASA budget would not have followed anyone. To reach the moon by prioritizing the budget, yes, even the people from the cleaning have felt that they participate in something important.
He also attracted the attention and minister Daniel David. And the rector UBB is one of the faithful soldiers of General Bosumflat. Ready with austerity in schools, said the Minister of Education. Accounting is a means, mandatory, but it is not the mission.
If PSD-PNL-UDMR-UR would say “we reduce everywhere, not only to survive, but also to have a lot of money to invest in education”, then people were the light at the end of the tunnel.
“We double the budget of education in three years, because this will help our children have a better life,” he would create the next step, would have brought a perspective, which Sabina Fati wrote in DW.
What remains written on the mirror?
There is no better defense for a people than the level of education of its young people. The tanks are stumbled, the vessels are attacked with drones, but how can you withdraw education from the brains of people, once acquired in decades?
Only if Romanians feel that there is an objective, then the sacrifices can take a sense. A Croatian historian and diplomat said it was the work of a government to create for “a significant feeling of citizenship.” In this part of the world, many countries have chronically unresolved problems. We are not alone.
In the absence of a goal, which would have put into reflection many responsible people, we have at least one beginning. There are the 5 packs of measures that the Government has assumed.
These laws are the signature of the imperfect rigor of mythleuropa, scratched on the levantine mirror, so slippery in its perfection, that the effect is that any write is deleted. What is played now is not success, until it is a long way, but the minimal seriousness.
