Bucharest, 25 January 2021: The Alexandrion Foundation is organising the fourth edition of “The Sinaia Debates” online, on 27-28 January 2021. The event will be broadcast live on the Alexandrion Foundation’s Facebook page and will be accessible to everyone interested in following professionals from many fields of activity and opinion leaders recognised for their prodigious careers in Romania and abroad, who will offer their views on one of the most important current topics at international level: “The European Union and Its Prospects”. Prof. Dr. Andrei Marga will be the moderator of the fourth edition of “The Sinaia Debates” and will lead the discussion, also bringing interesting questions on the subjects debated to the attention of participants. The agenda of the event is available at https://www.fundatia-alexandrion.ro/dezbaterile-de-la-sinaia/editia-4-2021/.
The theme of this year’s “Sinaia Debates” was set at the end of the previous edition and will be structured into four 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 the globalised world; Alternatives and prospects for the European Union. These will be debated by leading economists, lawyers, historians and philosophers, European policy officials, and experts from Romania and other countries. Among them are Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania in 1996-2000, Prof. Dr. Eng. Petre Roman, Prime Minister of Romania in 1989-1991, and Prof. Dr. Florin Georgescu, First Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Romania.
In an effort to establish in Romania a framework for debates of the highest standard, a platform for communication between professionals, decision-makers and the public, at both national and international level, the Alexandrion Foundation launched “The Sinaia Debates” in 2017. The concept was created out of the need of the Romanian public to receive answers to key questions on subjects essential to a society.
The first three editions of “The Sinaia Debates” took place at the Montana Hotel in Sinaia and enjoyed international participation. The themes of debate were “The Rule of Law. Premises, Conditions, Functioning” (2017), “The Economy of the East. Post-Austerity and Prospects” (2018) and “The Crisis of Education. Status Indicators and Solutions (2019)”. This year, the Alexandrion Foundation reconfigured the format of the event in order to comply with all the legal measures in force, imposed by the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To make the most of the key ideas presented and discussed at “The Sinaia Debates”, after each edition the Alexandrion Foundation publishes a volume that includes the contributions of all the speakers. The volumes are important sources of information and documentation for everyone interested in the topics debated. The proceedings of the first two editions were gathered and published in volumes edited by Editura Meteor of Bucharest and Editura Ecou Transilvan of Cluj-Napoca.
