{"id":9303,"date":"2026-03-16T08:05:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=9303"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:05:03","slug":"romanian-lawmakers-to-vote-on-2026-budget-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=9303","title":{"rendered":"Romanian lawmakers to vote on 2026 budget this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s Parliament is scheduled to give the final vote on the 2026 state budget this week, according to the calendar approved by the leadership of the legislature. A joint plenary session for debating the budget bill will begin on Wednesday, March 18 at 16:00 and continue on Thursday, March 19, when lawmakers are expected to cast the final vote, <a href=\"https:\/\/agerpres.ro\/viata-parlamentara\/2026\/03\/16\/parlament-bugetul-pe-2026---in-dezbaterea-comisiilor-de-specialitate--1537493?mc_cid=260a86ba09&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">Agerpres<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, the Parliament\u2019s specialised committees will examine the draft budget. On Monday, between 18:00 and 22:00, joint committee meetings will review the document and submit their opinions to the budget committees.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, from 09:00 to 10:30, the Budget Committees will hold general debates, followed by hearings with the main spending authorities between 11:00 and Wednesday at 13:00. During this stage, the committees will prepare their reports on the draft state budget and the social insurance budget.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/government-approves-budget-plan-march-2026\" target=\"_blank\">government approved the draft 2026 budget<\/a> on March 12. The plan targets a cash budget deficit of 6.2% of GDP.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Lcva\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s Parliament is scheduled to give the final vote on the 2026 state budget this week, according to the calendar approved by the leadership of the legislature. A joint plenary session for debating the budget bill will begin on Wednesday, March 18 at 16:00 and continue on Thursday, March 19, when lawmakers are expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}