NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana said on Friday in Cluj that Romania's integration into NATO and the EU are as important historical moments as the Great Union and the Little Union.
At the same debate, he said that the world, humanity, is undergoing unprecedented transformations.
"We are witnessing one of the greatest transformations of human society in the history of our species. We have never had so many cumulative, structural factors. (...) We have a certain crisis of democracy and the capitalist model that Europe [has had], for five centuries, and even Romania, maybe not always as organically, but who has been a part of it in a kind of domination of Europe in terms of ideas and values; democracy was born here, the ideas of modern capitalism were born here and in the Western democratic world there is a great deal of conversation right now about the need to refresh our democracy, because it's a project that is not static, it's very dynamic, and like anything else where you don't invest energy, love and attention, it risks remaining behind the expectations of the public opinion. At the economic level, in addition to the great technological revolution, we have a strong conversation about the type of capitalism or the types of capitalism, because it is not a single one, because the economic model must also be rethought," argued Mircea Geoana.
On Friday, UBB and the Aspen Romania Institute organised a debate on "The Role of NATO and the European Union in Romania's Modernisation," which was attended by NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana and UBB Rector, Professor Dr. Daniel David. AGERPRES