Prime Minister Pavel Filip requested Minister of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment Liviu Volconovici to annul the order to transfer students of the Agrarian University who were earlier lodged at the dorm on Pushkin St to other dorms.
The three dorms were to be conceded to a building company under a public-private partnership. Instead, the company was to repair the university.
“Mister minister, annul the transfer order. I know the prospect of freeing these dorms for erecting multistory buildings instead of them is very attractive, but it is not the case to economize at the expense of students. Money should be identified in other projects, for example in projects related to the irrigation systems. You should not save money this way. I tell you that no multistory building will be constructed in the place of those dorms,” stated the Premier.
Liviu Volconovici was also criticized for not presenting measures to fight ambrosia, as he was requested to do a week ago. He only provided information about this plant. Pavel Filip furnished him with a Romanian law, advising him to inspire him by this.
Pavel Filip also reproached the customs inspectors, instructing the customs chiefs to make sure that their inferiors do not commit abuses in their activity. It happened after the Premier received a letter from a citizen who said that he was obliged to pay a customs tax of 900 lei for clothes worth 2,600 lei that he bought in Romania for his two children.
“We have what to struggle with and where to find money and increase the state budget. Don’t choose the easiest way, of deriding the people by showing how powerful you are,” said the Premier.
He requested to give the money back to that man and to apologize to him. Pavel Filip noted the people who do not know how to work with the citizens should not work in the public service.
