NBR on levying additional taxes on banks: We will abide by the European decision

The notion of levying additional taxes on banks considered to be responsible for setting off the current international crisis, which is starting to crystallise among EU decision makers, is regarded with detachment by NBR’s first deputy governor Florin Georgescu, who merely said Romania would abide by the European decision.
“We only see this idea as something that will be decided at the European Union level. Our country does not carry as much economic weight as EU leading countries do, so it cannot influence such a decision very much. European decisions will also apply in Romania,” Georgescu said at the seminar EU-Cofile, organised in Sinaia by the NBR in partnership with the Romanian Banking Association (ARB) and Alpha Bank.
Supplementary taxation of banks is seen as a means to help rebalance the fiscal system, given that many European countries have had to bail out banks considered of systemic importance.