SOME PUBLIC POLICY INSTRUMENTS INITIATED IN ROMANIA IN THE COVID-19 CONTEXT

Abstract

Ensuring the convergence in the process of the Romanian economic and social environment adaptation, to the requirements of internal market of European Union, but also the alignment of public policies with good practices of European Union, led to the emergence of new types of policies and instruments, for different fields of implementation, in the new conjuncture. As a consequence the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, governments all over the world, imposed restrictions intended for the protection of population, with effects on the economic and social life. In Romania, the government's intervention policies consisted of actions aimed at preventing the collapse in the national economy, materialized in plans, programs and measures, supported by laws and Government Decisions, which constitutes as basic instruments of the period 2020-2021. The present paper tries to present, in a synthetic manner, two essential public policy instruments used in Romania, to combat the negative effects caused by pandemic crisis, respectively, National Recovery and Resilience Plan and National Reform Programme 2021. The conclusions and proposals which ends the paper express the essence of the results obtained. The research methodology used was the documentation from specialty literature, focus on significant issues, synthesis and processing of information, through the author’ own interpretation.