Unfortunately, after the first three quarters, the energy industry entered a negative trend and no longer sets the tone for the economy, according to Cristina Pruna, deputy from the Save Romania Union (USR) party in the Romanian Parliament, member of the Committee on Industries and Services and the Committee on European Affairs.

“One of the causes is undoubtedly OUG114,” she said at the Focus Energetic conference. “In the short term, the big challenge is how we will be able to harmonize Regulation 943 with national legislation in order to mitigate the impact of an increase in the price of energy.”

MP Pruna says that, for the last three years, the Romanian Government has been almost completely disconnected from the decision-making centers of the European policy and, now, we will wake up to reality.

“In the medium term, the second challenge is how we will manage to adapt to the energy transition,” she explains. “We do not have an adequate answer to this new reality. Instead of struggling to get as much money from European funds and replicating as much as we can the new European framework, I see that we have great difficulties in adapting, starting from the mentality and even the legislative framework. If we fail to eliminate this resistance to change, we will lose money, jobs and economic competitiveness.”