Romanian Academy: This year's National Day has particular significance, special emotional fabric

Romania's National Day this year has a particular significance and a special emotional fabric, the Greater Union's celebration being a good opportunity to remember the grandeur of that generation of statesmen and intellectuals who led the nation to the unification of all Romanians and showed an admirable cohesion for the public welfare, the Romanian Academy says in a message on the occasion of 1 December, according to Agerpres.

"Romanians celebrate one century since the end of the <> that cut down millions of lives and brought up hard to assess losses and sufferance on the one hand and they also celebrate the closing of the founding of modern Romania as a national unitary state, on the other hand. The Greater Union's celebration is a good opportunity to remember the grandeur of that generation of statesmen and intellectuals who led the nation towards the unification of all Romanians and manifested an admirable cohesion for the public welfare," the Romanian Academy's message reads.

The academic forum emphasises that the past century full of teachings "makes us reflect upon the present and the future".

"The Romanian Academy which managed to bind together, from the institutional point of view, the cultural elite from all of the Romanian historical provinces ever since 1866, over one half of a century ahead of the Greater Union and which as a consequence, acquired the vocation of founder and keeper of this people's unity, urges in these solemn moments all the responsible factors in Romania to assume the mission they were entrusted with by the Romanians and put the good administration of the national edifice, fathered with so much sacrifice, first," the message adds.

According to the source, "Romania perfected in 1918, confirmed internationally in 1919 - 1920 and reconfirmed - with the regrettable territorial amendments and in very difficult historical conditions for the entire space of Central and Eastern Europe - at the Peace Conference in Paris in 1946 - 1947, is not a permanent given, but a geopolitical, spiritual reality that needs to be permanently administered, refreshed, protected, organised and headed with responsibility, professionalism and dignity, so as to be able to participate actively in the dialogue among the states."

"The taking over by Romania on 1 January 2019 of the presidency of the Council of the European Union pinpoints our country on the top of the EU protagonists and entails an unprecedented national effort within the EU for the next six months. In context, the Romanians' admirable unity as recorded by the history at the end of the Great War must be more than a recollection and a celebration, it must become an example and a benchmark for us, the nowadays people who became the legatees of the 1918 personalities who have accomplished with honour their historical duty. "Our life's duty" (Vasile Parvan) makes us act with awareness and coordination to reinvigorate Romania and prepare it to affirm and develop in the 21st century.We therefore invite all the state institutions to a lucid, deep and honest dialogue aimed at a good functioning of the Romanian society, a necessary and mandatory dialogue for all these bodies delegated by the Romanian nation to lead its destiny towards the future and to wisdom, by conveying to the Romanians a message of trust, power and courage to regaining the national dignity," the Romanian Academy says.