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ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to upgrade the competitive position of Romania in relation to the Europe 2020 Strategy, and to offer some last-minute solutions to improve the final results. Romania's interim results revealed a very slow pace for meeting the national proposed targets. The context in which Romania joined this competitive program was not a favorable one, if we consider her state of new state in the EU and the economic crisis. In the first part of the study we analyze the main macroeconomic indicators for the period before adopting the Europe 2020 Strategy. We believe that this initial analysis is relevant to a better understanding of the initially context of the country, and for a better assessment of actual outcomes. The second part of the study updates interim results of proposed national targets in the Europe 2020 strategy. The personal contribution in this study consists in the comments on the analyzed indicators and in the proposed solutions for the next 3 years of implementation of the strategic program.
KEY WORDS: competitiveness, Europe 2020, solutions.
JEL CLASSIFICATION: F15, Oll, O30.
1.INTRODUCTION
In narrow economic sense, competitiveness is understood as the ability of a nation to create an economic, social and political context, able to support accelerated production of added value (Garelli, 2006). In fact, competitiveness can relate to the development level of a country, to its economic performance, to its comparative position in the international trade and more, the aim being the increase of the living standards of the population, while increasing the share of the country's participation in international markets. Measuring the competitiveness of a nation involves economic policy analysis, and the composition of an international ranking, based on a set of indicators, aimed at the performance of specific economic sectors, infrastructure of public institutions quality, or the rate of employment, generally speaking everything forming a country's economic, social and political chain. In the European Union, economic competitiveness means an assessment tool of how the EU and national goals become realities, and, at the same time, constitutes an incentive mechanism by identifying and supporting national activities that have potential for growth. In this regard, in the early 2000s, the European Council in Lisbon adopted the Lisbon Agenda, aimed at transforming...