The inner power of the Romanians from the country and from outside it is given by the capacity to embrace the National Idea and to see what prevents the realization of the whole potential after over 30 years of the gaining of freedom and in almost 20 years of the joining of the Euro-Atlantic world, said NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană. “We all belong to one nation towards which we have the obligation to close ranks and give it the chance of a new start,” the official stated on the occasion of Romania’s National Day that is celebrated on December 1, IPN reports.
He noted that the Great Union of 1918 was a clear, well-thought out political project prepared with patience, while waiting for a favorable moment that came on time. The revolution of 1848, the first Crimean War, World War I, the invasion of Czechoslovakia, the fall of the Berlin Wall, September 11, 2001 – each of these moments opened for Romania windows of opportunity that the then politicians could exploit in the way they knew the best.
Mircea Geoană also said that the Small Union, the Great Union, the game between the communist and capitalist blocs in 1970, the Snagov consensus that led to the entry into NATO and the EU were examples of the same instinct of opportunity shown by the Romanian elites each time the international context allowed to advance the National Project.
On December 1, 2023, it has been 105 years of the Great Union as a result of which the state Romania was formed. On this occasion, the Romanian Ministry of National Defense stages a national military parade in Bucharest and this involves a contingent of the National Army of the Republic of Moldova.
