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Romania's best ever country project to be finalised in about one year
President Klaus Iohannis told the first meeting on Tuesday of the presidential committee on country project that the expected project will be Romania's best ever such project, adding that it takes about one year for the project to be completed.
"The process cannot be very short, because we cannot draw up such a country project in just some weeks. On the other hand, I do not believe years of talks on what we want are good to stretch. I reckon we will be able to achieve in this committee the primary document in about half a year, after which the mandatory public discussion stage follows and political consensus, I guess. The entire process can be completed in nearly one year," Iohannis told the first meeting of the board in charge with drawing up a country project for Romania.
"The committee will come up with the best country project Romania has ever had," Iohannis said at the beginning of the meeting.
He added that no political project can be designed without the participation of politics.
"We can safely say this country project comes to meet larger expectations on the part of the Romanian society and citizens. Everybody has understood that Romania's objectives related to NATO membership and integration with the European Union were successfully competed and, besides having become a full NATO and EU member, Romania has transformed and we cannot stop here. Romania's transformation should go further, and we have to step in to tell the country to go further and show it the way. This is where the country project should provide answers," said Iohannis.
Iohannis added that the entire regional and global context have changed since Romania entered NATO and the EU, and that is why a country project will have to be a project for a modern, prosperous European Romania.
"The country project has to have its own identity that reflects our identity, our values and areas of high performance," the President said.
He added that the project is necessary at a juncture of three essential processes: post transition, post European accession and post crisis. He also said Romania has to become "a clear and firm voice with fundamental opinions" in the creation of a new EU, mentioning that Romania will take over the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union.