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The Romanians do trust the minister Leonard Orban' action plan of activating the Europeanfunds, a grim subject for us. In case the bet is successful(God help us!) what could we possiblygain out of it?
The assimilation of the European funds is, at this moment, Romania's only chance toprevent the economic collapse. The hard austerity measures applied by the actual power cannot bring prosperity, be it relative, for the population ,unless they are doubled by steps of stimulatingthe economic growth. The executive director of I.M.F Christine Lagarde as well as the prestigiouseconomists such as Joseph Stiglitz have appealed to the completion of the austerity project withsteps of stimulating the economic growth. In our case the consumption has been reducedthrough the reduction of population income and the economic crisis has diminished the demandof Romanian products meant for export. The economy has no chance of growing in theseconditions; the only healthy source of funds meant for economic development rests in theEuropean funds. These funds, at the same time allow the establishment of various projects whichtrain the local capital and have a multiplying effect on the economy, in other words they generateactivities which create workplaces in connected economic domains. We have all seen that foreigninvestments are mostly relative especially when they are based on the assembly of componentsproduced in different countries, such as the case with the Nokia factory at Jucu. At the same timethe European funds can give solutions for financing the infrastructure works. An eloquent example is represented by the financing of Transylvania highway with European funds, recentlyannounced. The Minister Leonard Orban is yet to have influence over the other members of Government and cannot control their performance in the establishment of projects with Europeanbacking. We should have created ministry of European affairs immediately after the integrationas it happened with the Poles who became champions in funs absorption, but we preferredoffering our ministers small feuds which they administrated as they wanted according to theirwill, with the staff hired on preference-based criteria . Originally , our politicians and civil servantsseemed to be more concerned by the fact that they had to report every cent spent. Pushed frombehind, , they finally managed to invent a corrupt bureaucratic system which would turn theEuropean funds into an illegal source of incomes. Lets take the example of the ANOFMpresident,, arrested under the accusation that he had claimed bribe of tens of hundreds euro inorder to approve the European project cofinancing. Consequently, the European funds offer us ahuge chance for economic revival but only on condition we give up our old habits related topreference and corruption. Europe gives us nuts but doesnt crack them for us.