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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
George Radulescu on the indifference of the Romanians
Romania's accession to Nato and the EU has failed to bring about the hoped-for social progress, writes journalist George Radulescu in the daily Adevărul, above all because Romanian politicians set a poor example: "The attitude and behaviour that political decisionmakers exemplify to Romanian society only strengthens the idea 'let it be, don't go to too much trouble'. ... Their frivolous and inconsequential public statements, the effrontery of their TV appearances, the cheap tricks they use to put down their political rivals: all of that now determines our interpersonal relations. The basic difference between politics and society today in comparison with the 1990s is how the rules of civil coexistence are completely disregarded. People used to speak of 'falsely understood freedom'. Today however the new generation is completely indifferent to everything concerning the society they live in."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Weltanschauung, » Society, » Romania
Only dumb Romanians use magic
Many Romanian TV channels are currently reporting on the work of witches and wizards who at the beginning of the year gained the status of a legal professional group. Several public figures have accused them of cheating them out of hundreds of thousands of euros. For the daily Adevărul this exposes above all the ignorance of many Romanians: "What is basically bad about the public uproar over witches who have cheated B-list celebrities out of a lot of money? Well: only a minority of the viewers see it as at all absurd for the so-called professionals of the witchcraft profession to be presented on television - at peak viewing times! By contrast the uneducated masses see only that above all footballers, photo models and supposed businessmen use the services of these performers of magic. ... School can't protect the Romanians from their own stupidity."
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More from the press review on the subject » Media, » Society, » Romania
Andrei Plesu on Romania's reviewing of the past
Romania could celebrate two jubilees this year: 20 years since the fall of communism and 10 years since the review of the Securitate [the secret service of communist Romania] archives began. But in an interview with the daily Adevărul philosopher Andrei Plesu says that the CNSAS, the authority charged with investigating the archives, has little influence: "It has become a lethargic institution. … I had a discussion with [Polish journalist] Adam Michnik on the subject of the CNSAS. He said: 'Don't open Pandora's box. It will only make things more difficult. And worse still: you reactivate the [secret service's] files and thus carry on its mission in a way.' I thought that it was nonetheless important to know the truth. Now I tend to think Adam Michnik was right because there is a great discrepancy between the claims that were made when [the CNSAS] was founded and what it can actually do. … But the problem right now is a different one. If someone who knew the past well says: I hope I live to see the reconstruction of communism' this depresses and disgusts me. And it doesn't surprise me to see a generation of intellectuals aged between 25 and 30 which now has free access to the West and is happily mixing with the Left there and only 20 years after the revolution is showing sweet ideological sympathies with Marxism."
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