Last week, the European Commission changed the fundamentals of the energy communitarian strategy with the goal to fight the global warming, to stimulate the competition and to reduce the energetic dependency of the Union. After having to deal with the accelerated global warming process, to the increase in the price of hydrocarbon and to the problems appeared in the natural gas and oil supply from Russia, the commission has transformed the new energetic strategy into one of its main goals.

Given the context, our country has to build an energetic strategy to meet the Romanian reality and the new regulations approved by the European Commission. The energetic problem is decisive for the evolution of the Romanian economy, as well as for the national security. One of the most important objectives that the national energetic strategy has to reach is the diminution of the dependence on the imports of energetic resources. The price of the external energetic resources tends to increase, which will continue to contribute to the depreciation of the commercial balance and to the increase in the external deficits. This would affect the disinflation process and the financial stability of the Romanian economy. This way, the decrease in the energetic imports would contribute to the diminution of Romania’s dependence on external resources as well as to the stability of macroeconomics in the context of the European integration.

The diminution of Romania’s energetic dependence is a major priority and the use of it must be part of a long term strategy. In the strategy project proposed by the communitarian executive, the commission intends to develop the competition on the European energetic markets. Romania needs a different management model as far as using the financial resources is concerned. Their use has to determine an increase in the budget revenues and in the compe