Former Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi on Thursday said that there is a civic duty to resist in the face of what he called a „restoration” of a national-communist, pro-Putin, anti-Western, and radical Eurosceptic type.
Baconschi participated on Thursday evening, alongside Professor Adrian Papahagi, in the debate „Ideological Drifts of the Present: Nationalism vs. Patriotism – Sovereignty vs. Suveranism/ Orthodoxy vs. Orthodoxism – Christian Universalism vs. Globalism,” an event in the RES PUBLICA series of debates organised by the Civic Academy Foundation and Spandugino Foundation. The event, hosted by the Memorial of the Victims of Communism and Resistance in Bucharest, was moderated by writer and civic activist Ana Blandiana.
„All these nostalgics, professionals of the magical return to supposed ‘golden ages’ are swindlers, impostors, people who have learned nothing from the lesson of the recent past, not to mention the great lessons from which great civilised nations…
