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It is fair to say that the inclusive dimension of the Romanian state, represented by the public administration, the health system, education, work and social services, has been almost completely Europeanised, but the same cannot be said on the "coercive dimension of the state," Senate President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu said on Thursday at the Romanian Athenaeum.
It is fair to say that the inclusive dimension of the Romanian state, represented by the public administration, the health system, education, work and social services has been almost completely Europeanised. However, I cannot say the same on the coercive dimension of the state. As a reminiscence of the communist past, some institutions and decision-makers still cling to the power they enjoyed before, Tariceanu said.
He added that these actors simply replaced the ideology of socialist legality with that of the rule of law, keeping their habits and calling for the same lack of assumption that they enjoyed collectively before 1989.
Tariceanu hopes that during the presidency of the Council of the European Union, the authorities of Romania will shed more light into this paradox.
