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We 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…
Read moreA plague hangs over Europe. And I am not referring to nationalism … Because nationalism is but one symptom of a much deeper problem eroding the future of Europe and decimating the population of Romania. And this, please note, as…
Read moreSome pundits or opinion leaders` temptation to estimate the future by looking at historical changes does not cease to amaze me. It is the clear proof that we are still in the dark as to what we are going through,…
Read moreThis is the interview posted a week ago with Professor Dan Dungaciu, Director of the Political Sciences and International Relations Institute of the Romanian Academy continued. RC: In the last few weeks the army seemed to be publicly facing three major problems…
Read moreThis week, after quite a while, I have again a distinguished guest with whom I intend to address the ever topical subject for Romania: security and its vulnerabilities at the crossroads of the great geostrategic interests. And one of the…
Read moreI recently attended a security lecture held by a retired general where I learnt a new term: “non-kinetic warfare”. You may probably not be familiar with it either as I found that a google search for the Romanian term gave…
Read moreThe history of mankind has been marked on some occasions by technological bounds, spectacular at that time, which radically changed the way society functioned. Most studies referring to these milestones tend to see 3 technological waves, 3 industrial revolutions. The…
Read moreA while ago I was invited to Brussels to a meeting organized by the European Commission with representatives of financial institutions in Member States. The meeting brought together chief economists and analysts of banks operating in countries such as Germany,…
Read moreThis is the first thought that comes to mind as I watch the weird behavior of leaders from the West to the East of Europe every time the two-speed Europe project is addressed. Let us look first at the Visegrad…
Read moreThe EU’s success story is closely related to the post war emergence of a strong and wealthy middle class. The situation started to deteriorate as the consequences of globalization started to manifest themselves in Europe. The rich have become richer…
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