As the "Open letter" shows, "research is the building block of progress and is a key to ensuring the permanent evolution of the future of society" and the allocation of a 0,18 % of GPD to the research activity not only defies the politics of the European Union (that aims at building a strong European Research Area - ERA and Romanian Research Area), but that will actually lead to a long-drawn and irremediable decline.

In 2008, Romanian research activity was receiving state funds up to 0,85% of GPD, an amount of money similar to 1% of GPD, that the EU would recommend member states for 2010, aiming at converting into reality the "knowledge-based economy and society". Despite this fact, in the beginning of 2009, only 0.18% of GPD was decided to be granted by the Government to research activities. Under these circumstances, we would like to highlight that his situation will lead to "the definitive loss of Romania researchers", who will either "migrate to other private fields of another countries", "the loss of the technical an technological capability of the national research and development institutes in Romania, and of the Romanian Research Area, conducting to a regression and a historical gap between it and the European Research Area", generating no improvement perspectives", "canceling already signed R&D contracts in national competitions". "the incapacity to observe the National Agreement for Education and Research", "the impossibility to continue launching new competitions within short (2009) and medium (2010-2012) term and, last, but not least, "the impossibility to assume the R&D national and international obligations and the agreement within national collaborations and European projects" and, consequently, "the slowing down – leading to the stagnation - of the development and the evolution of the Romanian society".

Under this given circumstances, the general manager of INCDMTM, at the same time, a reputed academic, states that this collapse of the research system can only be countered by urgent actions: offering R&D at 0,85% of GPD for 2009, launching The National R-D-I Programme II/ Third Competition and of the "Sectorial" Programme, as well as sustaining European Programmes – such as "Structural funds" and FP7 and of the co-financing of the European projects won by Romania in European calls, in order to attract cash flows from the EU to Romania, as well as sustaining Romanian research infrastructure investments and offering enough money for keeping  the Romania research elite in the field and especially, attracting and maintaining young valuable researchers within the Romanian Research Area, the financial sustaining of graduate students that can be directly involved in R-D-I activities, in order to ensure a continuity in the research personnel, to reduce youth unemployment, to decrease graduate student emigrations, slowing down the growth in the age average of the R&D employees.

The document was sent to  Emil Boc, Mircea Geoana and Ecaterina Andronescu, as well as Dan Voiculescu (Senate vice-president), Roberta Anastase (Deputy Room president), Gheorghe Pogea (Finances ministry), Constantin-Claudiu Stafie (state secretary within the Economy Ministry) Sorin Dumitru (president of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry), Cristian-Sorin Dumitrescu (president of the Education, Science, Youth and Sport Commission), Marian Vanghelie and Adrian Nastase.