The paper is focused on the EU sustainable development approach and its impact on Romanian economy. The analysis in the paper is supported by the latest official statistical data related to five indicators: GDP/capita, investment, household saving rate, labour productivity and R&D expenditure. All above indicators are quantified for each Member States during 2000-2014. The scientific approach covers a comparative analysis, a regression in order to highlight the disparities between Member States and forecasting procedures which over 2014-2020 period. Regression is made according ANOVA conditions. The dependent variables in the forecasting procedure are the individual values of all analysed indicators, while the independent variable is time. The forecasting was based on 2000-2014 period under ARIMA conditions. The first intermediate conclusion of the analysis is that the disparities between Member States will increase until 2020. On the other hand, the economic evolution of the Member States allows a two-clusters approach even in 2020. The final conclusion of the analysis is that the sustainable development is very different across the EU and leads to contradictory results. Romania will be not able to achieve the sustainable development until 2020 even its economic trend will be not the worst.
