PM Ponta publishes governing report on blog: 80 percent success

Prime Minister Victor Ponta published on Sunday on his personal blog the report of his governing; it shows 80 percent of the goals assumed in his original programme were reached.

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'I am glad we succeeded in achieving 80 percent of the goals we set ourselves in the Social Liberal Union ? Strong Romania programme. The economic model and the social justice measures are working ? we are on the right path towards increasing the living standard!' Ponta wrote; he was referring to the USL, the Union of his Social Democrats with the National Liberal Party, the coalition that installed him in the office in May 2012.

Though the Liberals have left the coalition meanwhile, the prime minister claims the Social Democrat Party 'is facing an apparently unexpected situation ? leading a governing that is getting closer to fulfilling all the major promises in the campaign.'

Ponta's report mentions the new Social-Liberal economic model applied by his successive governments.

'The cost of labour decreased. There was support for the re-industrialization and key fields (like the IT) were promoted. The economic competitiveness has increased. The taxation was simplified and reduced. The use of European funds was relaunched. We have promised an economic growth above 3 percent in 2013 and we had 3.4 percent; in 2014 we had a growth of 2.9 percent, one of the biggest in Europe. We have promised jobs (one million jobs in eight years) ? over 200,000 new jobs were created over the past years, and the pace is growing. We have promised to create jobs and today we are subsidizing half of the wage budgets for some companies; we are subsidizing the employment of young graduates, students, young unemployed and people over...