'The most important mission of the Government and Parliament is to end malpractice in the governance. Many received too much in 2007-2008 and no they are compelled to give it back. The Romanian state cannot affort to pay incompetent public servants or fake sick people', President Traian Basescu declared in a speech he addresses to the Parliament.

Here are some of his main declarations:

Romania cannot take up loans just for consumption

we need social solidarity more than ever

in 2004 Romania had in social care over 6 million citizens and in 2009 it had 13.9 million

our fight with the crisis was accompanied by a crisis of trust, encouraged and continued. The negative public discourse compels me to remind everyone that Romania is a European country, democratic, with a huge development potential but we have a difficult road to regain trust and a political sacrifice is called for

in crisis, one cannot govern thinking of the following elections

trust we come when the government will have more coherence in explaining its polciies and when the citizen will stop paying for the inefficiency of the administrative apparatus

Romania will have a deficit of 6.8% of GDP in 2010

this spring Romania set a memorandum with the IMF, EC and World Bank to cut costs and cut salaries by 25%

our objective is to have an elite well paid in the administration but this means the selection criteria should be made on performance criteria

the education and health systems are not sufficiently funded but we need to ensure that current resources are used correctly and allocated objectively.

we need a law to set the correct salary rapports between difference categories of public servants

we need to eliminate any social aid that encourages those who can w