Cristian Pirvulescu on the social market economy model

Political expert Cristian Pirvulescu writes in the daily Cotidianul about the social market economy model that established itself in Europe after the Second World War: "That was when the model of a social Europe was born: a reconciliation between the market economy mechanisms and the social requirements that were to ensure equal opportunities. And precisely this is why it was attacked by neoliberals of all the different parties. The economic crisis has changed the direction of Europe's politicians. The Christian Democrats have found their way back to a social market economy they abandoned amidst the neoliberal frenzy that had them in its grip until a year ago. The legacy of Ludwig Erhardt, Germany's minister of economics under [post-war chancellor Konrad] Adenauer, with its focus on the social market economy has regained its value. Only for the Romanian populists - above all the Conservatives, less so the Christian Democrats - does the neoliberal right-wing doctrine retain its force. … What's good for Europe is apparently not so good for Romania. Romanian politics is still obsessed with the winner who takes it all. And that winner wipes out every trace of democracy and provokes a cascade of inequalities."

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