Has the Nastase government an authentic political mandate meant to promote radical reforms? "The Focsani declaration" will probably become a turning point in Romania's post-communist history. Its concrete result - despite some subsequent inconsistent explanations -is that president Iliescu transmitted a very clear ideological message and initiated a necessary internal debate. This is why the effect of this declaration at an internal level could be more significant, in spite of the fact that the press underlined especially the negative international impact. For a few years, the only "politically correct" option existing in Romania has supported the necessity of integrating our country into NATO and EU , the idea that the economic reform and the privatization process should be continued. Even PRM (Great Romania Party) has accepted this necessity, in spite of the fact that 7 or 8 years ago, Ilie Neacsu, one of the party's outstanding figures, wrote that he "was waiting for the moment when the Russian flow would invade the entire Europe and would destroy the Brussels ramshackle". We could even say that all Romanians, their leaders included, support the Euro-Atlantic integration. Everybody wants a market-oriented economy and an occidental democracy. The way in which people want to show that they support these ideas is sometimes ridiculous. This is the only label which can be applied to the attitude of the new Iasi prefect, Corneliu Rusu Banu, who declared that he would use his position in order to fight for Romania's integration into NATO. This series of expectations is permanently nourished with new arguments provoked by its own influence. Iliescu's declarations after the general elections were saluted by journalists, politicians and political analysts. Everybody thought that the new former president had changed, that after having been a member of the opposition during f