PM Ciolos: We are entering a crucial year. We rely on the economy and aim for a strong administration

Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos said on Wednesday, in the Senate, that 2016 is a crucial year for Romania, and that the government will rely on economy, education, improved social services, culture, and an army ongoing a modernization process, stating that during the current tense climate, Romania is not alone.
“We are entering a crucial year for Romania, the year when the efforts of a politically unaffiliated government, which relies on the support of political parties and that of the major institutions such as the Presidency and the Parliament of Romania, will go towards the construction of a coherent country project, conducted in consultation with the citizens and the civil society, especially with the support of the political environment, keen to reforms,” the premier has told the Senate’s session dedicated on Romania’s National Day.
The prime minister said the country project will focus on institutional modernization, on strengthening the rule of law, on creating the conditions for better use of development resources, whether they come from the state budget, EU funds, from the Romanian capital investments or foreign investments.
“It will be a year in which, in order to take advantage of restarting the engine of Romania’s social and economic development, we’ll have to accept change as the rule of development and to take advantage of this opportunity,” Ciolos said.
The prime minister said that his government’s mandate has as stake “a new attitude of state authorities” and that the intent is to form a stronger, more effective administration and adapted to the legitimate expectations of citizens. “We rely on the economy, on education, on the improvement of social services, on culture, and on the army in the process of modernization in a coherent security project,” said Dacian Ciolos. In this context, he quoted the tense foreign environment and stressed that Romania is not alone and Romanians should be united and show solidarity with the partners in the EU and NATO.

PM Cioloș also informed that the budget project drafted by his Cabinet is comprising the bills adopted by the Parliament regarding the salary rises, but also the economic measures of the former Ponta Government, while mentioning that there will be some ‘readjustments’ in some sectors like investments and education.