Romania Deserves Better: A Call for Moral and National Renewal

Romania deserves more than what you see on television today: imposture, helplessness, mediocrity, and scandal. We receive nothing more than—as a Bukovinian entrepreneur once put it—noise without strategy.

People who haven’t worked a single day in the private sector are preparing to run for the presidential elections. Former Securitate informants, plagiarists, or individuals who failed to pass their baccalaureate exam even by the age of 30 will try to sell you illusions.

Our country could rise to the level of Poland if we had a dedicated and prepared team, driven by the ideals of pure—not hollow—patriotism. In thirty-five years, the “brotherhood of thieves” has failed to build even a single metro station at Otopeni Airport or a proper ring road for the Capital. We are vulnerable in the face of crises.

Energy is expensive, we import our food, and Romania is neither educated nor particularly wealthy. Immorality has seeped into schools. Drugs and orgies are present even in the country’s most prestigious high schools. We claim to be the “Garden of the Mother of God,” yet the videochat industry will soon be stronger than agriculture. Highways are collapsing, the health of Romanians is precarious, and our waters and forests are either mismanaged or exploited by foreign firms.

Local entrepreneurs are burdened by aberrant fiscal measures, and the much-touted “digitalization” fails to eliminate nepotism in administration. We are deceiving ourselves. Within a single decade, Romania could be where Poland is today: among the strong, admired, and respected nations.

There is only one condition: that we return to fundamental values, to the immortal principles of Christian Europe: family, life, liberty, property, and solidarity.

We all face difficult decisions. There are only a few days left until we see the final list of candidates for the presidential elections.

I believe today, just as I did ten years ago, that all of Romania’s healthy political energies can be channeled into a patriotic, decent alternative—free from obscure commands and perfectly transparent before the electorate.

It is not enough to penalize those who have governed in recent years. We have a moral obligation to act, to give a chance to the generations to come, to our children. As Iuliu Maniu said: “No sacrifice is too great when it is made for the nation and for the truth.”