Reaction from the PSD after the loss of money from the PNRR: “The failure of the reforms can no longer be cosmeticized”
“I don't want to get into political games, to show that many of the problematic reforms were coordinated by ministers who were from certain parties,” said social democrat Victor Negrescu, vice-president of the European Parliament, on Friday evening, in a first reaction after the European Commission's decision.
The Minister of European Funds announced on Friday that, following the assessment made by the European Commission, Romania loses payment request no. 3 of PNRR “458.7 million euros due to late, incomplete or badly done reforms in the past years”.
In a reaction on Facebook, Victor Negrescu said that “the failure of the PNRR reforms can no longer be cosmeticized”, but “there are solutions to save the rest of the funds if there is dialogue”.
“I don't want to get into political games, to show that many of the problematic reforms were coordinated by ministers who were from certain parties. The government had time from December 2023 to November 2025 to make changes and negotiate them with the European Commission until today, but the results did not come. And I know for sure that things could have looked better, because I was there when Romania negotiated the removal of the threshold imposed on pensions. And then there were voices that told us that it was not maybe,” added the social democrat.
He claims that “this loss comes after the current government has already given up billions of euros available in the form of very low interest loans”.
“And the risk is much greater: if the delays continue through the same poor management, we can end up with losses of billions of euros from the entire mechanism. Therefore, a change of approach is needed after the results of the last months”, continued Victor Negrescu.
A reaction also came from the PNL, through the voice of Siegfried Mureșan, who criticized former PSD Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and claimed that the merits for the unblocked amount, of around 350 million euros, belong to Ilie Bolojan.
Negrescu: “A plan written in haste, with insufficiently prepared reforms”
Victor Negrescu claims that the PSD tried to help develop the plan, but “others said they know everything and are not assuming anything now”, and “today we see the consequences”.
“A plan written in haste, with insufficiently prepared reforms, without a real connection with Romania's administrative capacity and without a serious political commitment. Then, as now, instead of working for Romania, the debate was politicized and presented, erroneously, in a partisan key,” the official added.
He accused the Bolojan Government, against which the PSD submitted, together with the AUR, a motion of censure, of “trying to fix the delays, accentuated in the last 10 months, through reforms made on the run, just to check the image chapter”.
“It is a wrong approach. Reforms are not done under pressure and are not improvised,” Negrescu also declared.
