THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION OF ROMANIA IN THE THINKING OF ADRIAN MARINO
THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION OF ROMANIA IN THE THINKING OF ADRIAN MARINO

Summary/Abstract: The European Ideal, perceived as a cultural, social, political and economic normative model, benefits from a tradition of at least two centuries in the Romanian space. Throughout this time the attractiveness of the European model in Romania has manifested itself in various ways, while meeting with numerous obstacles. Alongside the pro-European current, there was also an anti-European ideology flourishing in the interwar period, as well as during the communist regime. After the 1989 Revolution and the collapse of the communist system, the intellectual elites rediscovered and once again spoke freely of the European idea, following several decades of isolation and anti-western propaganda. The two decades elapsed since the Revolution provide us with the necessary temporal detachment so as to analyse the manner in which the European idea was recuperated, discussed and promoted during the first years after 1989. In this paper I will focus my analysis on the ideas of one of the most active supporters of Romania's integration into political and economic Euro-Atlantic structures after the 1989 Revolution, namely Adrian Marino. Basing my findings on the main pro-European texts of the author, I will approach the pro-European thinking of the latter from the following perspectives: the discovery of Europe by Romanian culture, Europe's image in Romanian collective mentality, the obstacles which the European integration of Romania has to face and the pro-European programme of Marino

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