President Traian Basescu declared on Monday, in a special edition talk show at the public television TVR that Romania was stabilized macro-economically and is ready for a possible outbreak of the crisis. The President said that by appointing private managers in state owned companies he will shatter trans-party interests.

Romania will maintain its objective to join the euro zone in 2015, Basescu said but underlined that it is more important for the country to have a stable budget. He talked about the American anti-missile shield, privatization, restructuring of state owned companies and the economic situation of the country.

Other statements:

We are ready to face an outbreak of the crisis, if it will come

Romanians will feel the economic growth in mid 2012 The biggest risk right now is to slip back to where we were when the crisis started.

I learned not to trust politicians

We can draw any time money from the IMF but we will not need it if things will go as they did so far

State owned companies were not under the loop of the IMF, but of the World Bank. I insisted on the subject, to have this issue included in the new agreement. Private management is a successful key and we have plenty of examples to prove it, like Apa Nova.

We need to have more responsible citizens, to pay their dues to the state

We have to respect the law and pay our taxes

This government managed to pull Romania out of the crisis, despite the unwillingness of some. I consider that these unpopular measures that had tough effects pulled the country out of the crisis

Related to Russia’s reaction to the anti missile shield, we will have to have a serious talk once President Medvedev will make a statement, PM Putin or Russian Foreign Affairs minister Lavrov.

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