Alexandrion Foundation organised the fourth edition of The Sinaia Debates on 27-28 January 2021, online, with a live broadcast on the Foundation’s Facebook page. The theme of the edition was “The European Union and Its Prospects”, structured into sub-themes: the project and achievements of the European Union; the economic and technical-scientific competitiveness of the European Union; freedoms, rights and democracy in the European Union; the European Union in a globalised world; alternatives and prospects for the European Union.
As is well known, the creation of the European Union was one of the turning points of post-war history. With the Greek crisis, Brexit, and the repositioning of the states of Central Europe and of Italy, it has become evident that the European Union has new problems to resolve. New historical phenomena – globalisation, the new constellation of the world’s superpowers, digitalisation, the expansion of nanosciences – are “challenges” for every country in the world.
The debates were attended by leading economists, jurists, historians and philosophers, European policy officials and experts from Romania and other countries. The proceedings were gathered in volume IV of the series “The Sinaia Debates”, produced under the coordination of Professors Andrei Marga and Ladislau Gyemant (Editura Ecou Transilvan, Cluj-Napoca, 2021).
Even under pandemic conditions, the concern of Alexandrion Foundation to sustain a framework for debates on current issues has continued and borne fruit. It is no exaggeration when many of our fellow citizens observe that this is the most prestigious framework for broad cultural debate in our country.
Prof. Andrei Marga, Dr.H.C. mult.