Romanians, disappointed by the present economic situation
According to the Eurobarometre survey, the number of Romanians who consider that the country’s economic situation is bad or very bad, gas grown from 90 percent last spring to 94 percent in the fall of 2010.
Articol de Diana Domenico, 02 Martie 2011, 09:22
Almost half of Romanians are unsatisfied with their lives and consider that the impact of the economic crisis on unemployment has not yet reached its peak.
According to a Eurobarometre survey published on Tuesday, price increases have become the most important problem across the European Union, including Romania.
The negative evolution of the economic situation in Romania has increased over the past year, as the number of Romanians who consider that the country’s economic situation is bad or very bad, gas grown from 90 percent last spring to 94 percent in the fall of 2010.
According to the Eurobarometre, this situation is encountered in most of the European countries, with 70 percent of European citizens considering their countries’ economic situation is bad.
At the opposite end of the scale is Sweden, where 85 percent of the respondants said that they were pleased with their lives.
Head of the Representation of the European Commission to Romania Nicolae Idu considers that the main responsible for the actual economic situation in Romania is last fall’s economic crisis, right when the Eurobarometre survey was performed, featuring certain points of economic regress.
‘Perhaps the views expressed in the autumn of 2010 will suffer an improvement in the 2011 surveys, as the autumn of 2010 featured the deepening of the economic and financial crisis all over Europe.
‘The events in Greece were followed by the financial difficulties in Ireland. As a result, the prospects for European economic recovery were not favorable’, Nicolae Idu stated.
Romanians are pessimistic about economic recovery
The Eurobarometre also shows that Romanians are still pessimistic with regards to the future development of the country’s economic development. Only 14 percent believe the economy will recover in the next 12 months, while 44 percent have negative opinions.
Life satisfaction varies according to the respondents’ place of residence, being higher in urban areas but also among young people.
According to both Romanian and the rest of the European citizens, the best way to handle economic issues is the improvement of the education system and job qualification.
Increased prices are the main personal concern throughout the European Union and Romania as a matter of fact, where about half of Romanian citizens affirm they deal with this problem every day.
The Eurobarometre data were collected among a nationally representative sample, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent.
Translated by: Mihaela Grigoraş
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University
