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These comments are designed for those who insist on regularly reassuring us that there are no reasons for concern, that excessively loading the budget with irreversible expenses, such as pensions and wages is sustainable because there is no crisis looming….
Read moreThe other days I discussed with a well-known journalist about the reasons of Viktor Orban`s success in Hungary. My interlocutor was talking admiringly about him because he had understood that Hungary could no longer be underpinned by a foreign direct…
Read moreIn the past 25 years, the Romanian government has provided numerous poor management examples of the assets it’s responsible for: state-owned enterprises incapable of reinventing themselves after 1989 and ending up shut down, companies with good potential or a very…
Read moreDoes SpaceX sound familiar? The company that manufactures rockets that after launching their satellites come back to Earth to safely resume their position on land awaiting a new takeoff? Or Tesla? The firm producing one of the most popular (and…
Read moreMy recent participation in an international conference put me on separate occasions in the privileged position of listening to the opinions of two high profile political leaders as well as with the oppportunity to ask questions. Jack Lew was President…
Read moreWhat can be more annoying than somebody pulling the emergency brake while speeding off with the pedal to the floor so fast that you can no longer support your head and need a headrest? What can be more frustrating than…
Read moreMy guest this week is Ms Antonia Colibasanu, a well-known geopolitical analyst with Geopolitical Futures where she is the Chief Operating Officer, a capacity in which she works closely with the founder of the organization, the celebrated geopolitical forecaster and…
Read moreI spent quite a while hesitating between two title versions. The other version would have asked „Is Romania a torn country?”. The “torn country” concept was coined by Samuel P. Huntington in his celebrated book The Clash of Civilizations, where…
Read moreFaced with many problems which question its very existence, the EU is trying to re-invent itself. The organization is clearly at a crossroad which is harder to overcome as the diversity of its members` priorities makes a consensus on the…
Read moreWe are living in an increasingly sophisticated, agitated, unstable and unpredictable world. And at the end of the day, increasingly tense. There is palpable tension on several levels: social, political, economic, geostrategic, to name a few. The tectonic plates of…
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