Adrian Nastase, the Romanian PM: "the only chance of development is encouraging the young people and their efforts and energies of a young generation of business people".

I like the word encouraging, sounds so "promising". Nastase is a politician and has a good point here but there seems to be a big discrepancy in what he says and what it's actually happening around. Young universities graduates still find it difficult to get a job, even though it is not entirely their fault. Moreover, the educational system is becoming obsolete in spite of the (still) good results in the international education contests. (informathics, math, physycs, etc). And this is because of both the older generation of educators and the system per se.

On the other hand this reflects on the demand side, last week at the outsourcing conference I was actually chatting with another CEO from the industry who agreed that it is increasingly difficult to find good candidates for hiring. Creating a good business environment is useless if there's no skilled people taking advantage of it. And I truly believe that the more quality business people perform in Romania the better the business environment will become. And a good education system is one of the main engines for getting at this.