The strategy program for 2000, on short term, presented by the premier Mugur Isarescu, is sharper than anything someone could have imagined for an electoral year The strategy, of which draft was presented by the premier Mugur Isarescu yesterday on television, is absolutely different in option and scope, from any other option that the Romanian political class had chosen after December 1989. The choice of the integration in EU and NATO in 1995 as the essential objectives of Romania was slightly simple and politically pretty cheap. It wasn't supposed an immediate price to be paid, giving, thus, the opportunity of reaching quickly an agreement. Supporting NATO intervention in Yugoslavia took the contribution from the ongoing power even if the opposition in its majority didn't oppose to it. To define the economic strategy on medium term asked by Brussels under compulsory terms is the first option that subject to major electoral risks both the power and the opposition. This is a serious factor in an electoral year when elections are going to take place. The opposition must accept to support the 2,000 harsh reform actions of the Government and avoid exploiting them on populist considerations, as it did till the day before the summit in Helsinki. In its turn, the power will have to refrain from seizing, in their interest, the advantages for 2000 of the negotiations starting and most of all to engage seriously in supporting a possible future PDSR government to fulfill the European objectives of Romania, settled by mutual agreement. The presence of a clear defined aim of the political action that can't be changed by discretionary reinterpretations, for the first time in a decade, will prevent the parties from throwing the dead cat of the reform activity responsibility strictly technical asked by the Romanian economy into each other's yard. The power, any of them, will not be a