The latest statistic data show that the Romanian economy is giving more and more clear signs of recovery; it is very fragile for the time being, as its significance is mostly of psychological nature. Exports and industrial output increased for the second running month in March. Maybe it's too early to be optimistic. The data are not only contradictory but also less significant to be able to judge an economic trend. A growth in exports of products of low added value (especially wooden products or metallurgical products but also textiles) is recorded, while high-tech products have but a far lowest weight. It's for the first time in the last four years when the Romanian economy is giving clear enough signs that it is on the right way. Production rises in the middle of winter, meaning outside the usual sesonal rhythm, in the middle of austerity policy, nammely not relying on massive public investments or the rise of inflation. It's just too early to talk about an economic boom. The Romanian economy is too vulnerable in the smallest circumstances. After all, we don't even know the limits of this growth and how much of the economy has adjusted itself to the market economics. Still, these figures are important at least for two reasons. First, they put an end to chronic defeatism. The rhetoric of collapse has become the cultural code, the single system of thinking of the Romanian world. The apocalyptic view, comfortable from the intellectual and political viewpoint on the whole, is dominant. The whole Romanian press was terribly offended when hearing about a rating agency and two second-hand British journalists had placed Romania close to some lagging behind African country. Actually, the foreign journalists happen to share the same opinion with our native observers, sometimes even softer than they do. None of them, however, goes beyond the endless political and electoral fu