President Klaus Iohannis stated, on Saturday, that Romania needs a far more stable framework, so that youths studying abroad return home.
He emphasized the necessity to create a more stable framework, one predictable and solidly leading to meritocracy.
"We have valuable youths and you are living proof. We have very valuable youths in the country as well. The phenomenon that saddens me every time is that those in the country would come here, but you would not return and then the role of politicians is to analyze why it is so and what framework must be created in order to have the exchange. (...) We must have in view creating a more stable, predictable, more solid framework in Romania, we must go towards something that I and many others have called meritocracy, so that the youths who come back can make a simple calculation - what career they would have, what chances they'd have in their career, what stability they would have in their career, what chances they would have to progress significantly in that career and then surely some of you would start thinking if it would not be good idea to return to the country. We are in the midst of the process," said Iohannis.
The head of state participated, on Saturday, at the Romanian Embassy in Paris, at event dedicated to the Romanian contribution to the development of science and technology in the year of the Centennial of the Greater Union.
The event at the Romanian Embassy, hosted by the Romanian ambassador in Paris, Luca Niculescu, also saw the attendance of Professor Gerard Mourou, a Nobel Prize laureate, as well as Romanian students, graduate students and Ph.D. students in the region of Paris involved in scientific research.