. integration processes within the Union. 1.3. National security objectives 21. Promoting national security interests is enabled by the establishment of benchmarks of the state effort, materialized into national security objectives. 22. From an internal perspective, national security objectives regard:  the consolidation of the national defense capacity aimed at ensuring Romania’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence, as well as the security of the Romanian people;  promoting and ensuring the unrestricted exercise of basic rights and liberties;  sound functioning of the judiciary and upholding of the rule of law;  removing deficiencies affecting good governance, enhancing administrative capacity, protecting the decision‐making process against influences and/or illegitimate or non‐transparent actions;  securing efficiency of national crises prevention and management systems, both local and external, as well as military and civil;  consolidating security and protection of critical infrastructures – the energy, transport and cyber security sectors – as well as food and environment security;  developing capabilities to combat asymmetric threats;  securing an efficient, dynamic and competitive economic environment, at an investment and entrepreneurial level, respectively, as well as the state’s financial‐budgetary stability;  sound, durable and socially adaptable development of major public systems (healthcare, education and social welfare);  preventing radical or extremist reactions and tendencies, by observing social pluralism and cultivating tolerance within civil society;  promoting national identity, including by means of preserving and capitalizing on the cultural and natural heritage, as well as by responsibly incentivizing fields of excellence. 23. From the foreign policy perspective, Romania must pursue the elaboration of a country profile that matches the level of ambition assumed al the political level, demographic weight and economic development. 24. In this context, national security objectives pursue:  strengthening Romania’s profile within NATO and the EU, through conceptual, as well as operational contributions;  observing the European Union’s basic principles and values; 9