Romanian incumbent President Traian Basescu took part on Tuesday at the public debate "The structural reform of the Romanian society. Modernising Romania through education". On this occasion he declared that "the Romanian school cannot afford the mass-production of unemployed". He underlined that "the educational system needs a radical reform". The debate at the Parliament is also attended by PM Emil Boc, Education minister Ecaterina Andronescu leaders of the parties who signed The National Pact for Education and union representatives. Liberal Varujan Vosganian announced that opposition party PNL will not take part in the debates.

The debate aims to start from identifying the problems in Education and line up new procedures or which the PM will claim responsibility. PM Emil Boc had earlier declared that the Executive will assume responsibility for the new Education laws in the beginning of the following month. Opposition party PNL will not take part in the debates, according to liberal Varujan Vosganian.

These are the most important statements made by President Traian Basescu:

despite public debates, it is the first time that the idea laws t modernise the educational system and connect it to the Romanian society dynamic and the European and global realities is unanimously accepted;I am convinced that we all believe that the country's modernising and integrating in the EU, completely and effectively, cannot be achieved without a radical system of the educational system;the talks about the rush in this case are unfounded, because the process started in 2006;although there is no solid argument indicating that teachers are reluctant to change, the much invoked conservative attitude of the system has the Romanian education regulated by patched up laws, which has suffered over 50 changes, 20 of them only during the last two years;we need