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Statements by Prime Minister Florin Cîțu and Education Minister Sorin Cîmpeanu at the start of the meeting of the Interministerial Committee monitoring the implementation of the 'Educated Romania' project

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Florin Cîţu: Good afternoon. Welcome. I asked you to have this meeting today as I want to know exactly the progress in the implementation of Mr President’s project which has been assumed by the Romanian Government, the Educated Romania project. You know very well that we undertook to start implementing it on September 10. We have a deadline I am very keen on meeting, and Minister, I want to be very clear, it is my firm request that we start implementing this project on September 10. I also want us to make sure that there is a dialogue with partners of social dialogue. I have asked it from the very first moment. I would like us to have the opinions coming from civil society, their views are very important for me. It is important that once this legal framework is created, we start implementing it. I hope it is not too late. We should build now in order to have medium and long term effects, not only short term effects, and of course, like in another field, we need predictability. I know you have prepared the worksheets, we have them here, the draft for each of the 12 areas of the project. They should be analyzed in detail, it is very important. I know it has been a tight deadline, but at the same time, it is very important to take a look at details, if there are issues, we should solve them from the start, and we should look at all details, irrespective of strategic objectives, measures, resources, and so on.

There will be yet another meeting in this format on September 9, at the same hour, and very importantly, September 10, on Friday – Cabinet meeting dedicated to the Educated Romania project. Therefore, it is a deadline we are keen on, for the adoption of this Government Decision: September 10- Cabinet meeting, September 9, this Interministerial Committee meeting. (...)