ROMANIA AT CROSSROADS WITH EUROPE?
ROMANIA AT CROSSROADS WITH EUROPE?
Author(s): Nicolae RaduSubject(s): Environmental and Energy policy, International relations/trade, Security and defense
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: successive threats; veterans; colonists; urbanization; oil against peace; Romanian speakers;
Summary/Abstract: When trying to understand our people’s attitude and the responsibility for the present, the reference to history is more than essential. Is there any other possibility to understand who we really are? How many teenagers still know about our ancestors, the Gets and Dacians, sealed through ages on Traian’s column? How can we pretend to be Europeans, if we forget that our ancestors are the ones who brought a meaning to Europe? The continuity past-present-future is also defined naturally in terms of responsibility-ethics-duty by Pope John Paul the 2nd (born Karol Josef Wjtyla, 1920-2005, pontiff between 1978-2005), during his first visit of 7-9th of May 1999, along with the dear departed Father Teoctist (laic name Toader Arăpaşu, 1915-2007, Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch between 1986-2007): “everyone is responsible for his brothers and for his country’s future”.
Journal: Strategic Impact
- Issue Year: 2010
- Issue No: 36
- Page Range: 103-109
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English