Man, sit down and hold on tight, because I found out something huge! Today, the Finance Minister, Nazare, hinted that Romania is about to lose a ridiculous amount of money. We have to pay 680 million euros to Pfizer, the company that gave us anti-COVID vaccines, and the interest is growing by 81,000 euros a day! Almost 2.5 million euros a month! You should see how great I feel when Mioara tells me we don't have money for a shawarma, while these guys are burning cash like it's free.
Nazare posted on Facebook that he met with Pfizer's people in Washington, talked to the Ministry of Health, with Poland (which is in the same boat), and with the commissioners in Brussels. They want to find a solution not to pay it all at once, maybe give medical products instead of money, since nobody needs vaccines anymore. Listen to me, that's how it's done! If you ask me, bro, back in 2021, when they bought the vaccines, nobody thought about tomorrow. Nazare says he warned them back then, but who listens to a minister?
A court in Brussels ruled in the first instance that Romania must pay 600 million euros, and Poland - 1.3 billion. The company sued them in the fall of 2023, because they refused to take all the ordered doses after the pandemic calmed down. Well, man, madness! We bought it like it was water, and now we complain we don't have money for pensions and roads.
This reminds me of a scene from 'Filantropica', when everyone argues over a pretzel, but here we're talking about half a billion euros. Me with my 2008 BMW, with payments to Relu, and these guys throw money to the wind. If it were up to me, I'd make a deal with Pfizer: give them some of my mother-in-law's sarmale and some homemade plum brandy, so they can see what real tradition tastes like. But no, they want euros.
Alright, I'm going to tell Mioara not to buy so much bread, because we might wake up with a hole in the budget and they'll take our house too. Then you'll see me asking neighbor Gheorghe from apartment 4 to let me park my BMW in his spot.
