Active population has declined by one million, the Gov’t has not created jobs – Romanian MEP says

MEP Siegfried Muresan says the active working population has fallen by more than one million during the past five years, from 9.3 million people in 2012 to 8.3 million in 2017, adding that, beyond the causes of the aging of population and the negative natural growth, most of these people are Romanians working abroad, due to the fact that the government “hasn’t created jobs for them, as PSD had promised.”

“Do you remember the one million jobs promised by the Victor Ponta cabinet in 2012? This is the result, five years later: the active population – which includes, besides employees, employers, the self-employed and farmers – has decreased by one million people, from 9.3 million people in 2012 to 8.3 million in 2017, according to data from the National Statistics Institute, whereas the number of employees in the economy stagnated at 6.3 million people, where have disappeared a million people from the working population? It is simple, beyond the causes of the aging of the population and the negative natural growth that affects every economy, most of them are Romanians who have gone abroad to work, precisely because the government has not created jobs for them, as PSD had promised,” Siegfried Muresan said in a political statement on Monday.

He says that “currently, between 150,000 and 200,000 Romanians (…) leave the country every year looking for a better job, because they understand that the social-democrats lied them only to win votes and that they are not going to keep the promises made.”

The MEP also argues that the current government has “cut public investments and changes the fiscal framework from one day to the next, which scares and keeps away potential investors, and the current Romanian and foreign investors are blowing the whistle one after the other and warn the government that its decisions will lead to economic stagnation and the creation of new jobs.”