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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Photos Full Coverage Sitemap Romania sticks to austerity plan, could delay eurozone entry: Basescu AFP - Thursday, September 23 Send IM Story Print Romania sticks to austerity plan, could delay eurozone entry: Basescu BUCHAREST (AFP) - – Romania will stick to an unpopular austerity plan despite protests and could delay eurozone entry to avoid a Greek-style crisis, President Traian Basescu said on Wednesday. While nearly 10,000 people protested in Bucharest against a 25-percent cut in public sector salaries imposed in July, Basescu said in an interview with foreign media that Romania should go ahead with trimming public spending. "The biggest issue facing Romania is restoring the macroeconomic balance," he stressed, adding that the government is spending more than it can afford on social security. Although the Balkan country has pledged to trim the budget deficit to 3.0 percent by 2012 -- in line with EU criteria -- the president said euro adoption could be postponed by "one or two years" beyond the current target of January 2015 following this year's debt crisis in Greece. "The crisis has taught us that we must look carefully at the economy as a whole, not just comply with the eurozone convergence criteria," Basescu said. "We have to discuss if we keep this objective or postpone it by one or two years, until the economy is ready to cope with this." "Greece was a good lesson telling us we must be fully prepared for eurozone entry," he stressed. The president moreover said Romania should conclude a new deal with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union in April 2011, when the current agreement comes to an end. "Our intention is not to get more money from the IMF, but to have a precautionary-type agreement," he explained. Under such a precautionary stand-by agreement, Romania would have funds available but not necessarily draw on them. "This would act as a safety belt and boost our credibility" in the eyes of foreign investors. In order to fill the 5.7 billion euro budget gap forecast for next year, Romania plans launching a eurobond issue. "The partnership with the IMF and the EU can help us obtain more favourable lending terms", he said. Romania, which joined the EU in 2007, last year secured a 20 billion euro lifeline from the IMF, the EU and the World Bank. But Basescu said most of the 11 billion euros disbursed so far were spent on paying pensions and public servants' wages. He wished Romania could use more of the 19 billion euros available from the EU until 2013 to improve its infrastructure, particularly building more highways. "I care for the Romanian people but I cannot sacrifice the country's future either," he said, stressing he wanted to show his solidarity with a government going through a "difficult time." But trade unionists marching in downtown Bucharest virulently criticized the austerity measures, saying they could barely make ends meet after their salaries were slashed. "After the elimination of a bonus, my salary has been cut by nearly 40 percent to about 240 euros (322 dollars) a month," said Horia Bracatin, a Bucharest laboratory assistant who has worked for 40 years. Public roads worker Traian Alinta, 59, said he could barely feed his 15 children. "The rent alone amounts to 360 euros, whereas my salary is about 600 lei (160 euros)," he added. Romania is out of recession but expects the economy to shrink by up to 1.9 percent in 2010, after a 7.1-percent contraction last year. 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