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Since 1990, the Romanians have been in search of their European roots. Paradoxically, this anti-monarchic concept can, in the XXth century, be embodied by a constitutional king in a given historical circumstance.įrom 1948 to 1989, Romania found itself out of the Western European civilization to which it once proudly belonged. It is, originally, a philosophical attitude turned against the rules imposed by the French absolutist monarchy and aimed to overthrow the king and the system he represented. “Le grand home” is an ideal based on reason, atheist, incarnated by a public figure that makes history without considering any kind of determinism. He has to transgress his own individuality and leave the comfort and the anonymity of his collectivity to become the spokesperson of this collectivity and the defender of their values. A public figure once considered a great man has to assume or is perceived to have assumed certain functions. According to the XVIIIth century spirit to which it belongs, “le grand home” is a philosophical concept with political and social implications for a nation. They seem to embody a value around which the public can gather around and identify with. These people can be considered great men because the public eye identifies a strong relationship between them and a historical mission. We were back then a constitutional monarchy, finding our place into the European political configuration of the age.Īfter the Second World War, even after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Europe has continued to produce new profiles of great men: Pope John Paul II, the first Pope to start a dialogue between Christianity and other religions at a world scale Olof Palme, the leader of the Social Democratic Party in Sweden and the Prime Minister of Sweden and Anna Lindh, the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, whose murders had an impact across Scandinavia King Juan Carlos of Spain, who peacefully led the transition from a dictatorship to a constitutional monarchy and a democratic regime in Spain.

Has it ever had a European dimension or not? After 1866 and culminating with 1881 when the Romanian Principalities under the rule of King Charles I became a kingdom, Romanians, politically and culturally managed to add a new, more vigorous and thorough European dimension to their national identity.

Expoziţiei 1B, BucureştiĮ-mail: 45 years of communist terror, the Romanians’ identity seems to be at a loss.

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