. Chapter IV LINES OF ACTION AND MAIN WAYS TO ENSURE ROMANIA’S NATIONAL SECURITY 4.1. Premises 70. The national security goals and interests represent the basis on which the main directions and the ways to ensure the national security are grounded in a dynamic and complex international security environment. Furthermore, the lines of actions come under the obligation to prevent, fight and respond to potential threats, risks and vulnerabilities that Romania may face over the following five years and in the long run, in a credible manner, under the constitutional principle of unitary coordination. 71. The lines of action and ways to ensure Romania’s national security aim at:  Strengthening strategic credibility through stability and predictability, both at home and abroad. Consolidating strategic credibility is based on strengthening the defense capabilities, public order and security at national level, as well as on securing a collective response regarding the defense of the Euro‐Atlantic space and a joint reaction needed for the consolidation of freedom, security and justice within the European space;  Ensuring a congruous legal framework, both for the unitary coordination of activities on the country’s defense and national security at the level of the Supreme Council of National Defense, as well as for the organization and functioning of institutions with competence in the field, in line with new security challenges, and particularly for a full adjustment to the NATO and EU membership condition. A legal framework tailored to the requirements of collective defense principles of the European space of freedom, security and justice, calls for security strengthening by enhancing the respect for the basic rights and the principles of constitutional democracy;  Enhancing inter‐institutional collaboration to identify and meet strategic national security goals. This will be the key element needed for transition from a sector wide approach to a more coherent and flexible inter‐institutional planning conception;  Focusing on prevention and preventive mechanisms in the field of national security and country’s defense, namely better anticipation, knowledge, and construction of an integrated responsiveness, that should be balanced, flexible and supple. In the current context, besides 17