Expert-Grup: "Bugetul Plus" - an electoral budget packed with investments with a populist flavor and a risk of political clientelism

The Expert-Grup analytical center warns, in a recent position paper, that the draft amendment to the state budget for 2025 – dubbed by the Government “Budget Plus” – is, in essence, an electoral budget, with populist accents and major risks of partisan use of public funds. The document signed by expert Marina Soloviova criticizes the way in which the government promoted this project without respecting transparency norms, but also the lack of eco…