Strengthening the resilience of civil society in possible crisis and improving parliamentary oversight over the intelligence services current premises of the developement security strategies of Romania

On the background of approval by the Romanian Parliament of the National Defence Strategy for 2015-2019, which introduced the concept of "civil society's resilience" as an element of the new concept of extended security, motivated by "ensuring convergence with the European principles of security" and the need to adopt, the †big brother†legislation in Romania, especially due to the rejection legislative initiatives taken in this area, as unconstitutional, this paper proposes two levels of analysis - strengthening population's resilience against significant risk and improving parliamentary oversight of the intelligence services, which provides current insights to improve national security strategies. Thus, the main proposed arguments aime at strengthening the population's resilience factors in relation to significant threats to national security, such as terrorism or natural disasters, coupled with a more efficient exercise of parliamentary oversight on intelligence services, with an increased credibility among the public, both solutions representing important ways to increase public confidence in the authorities and the preconditions for effective cooperation with them in crisis situations.