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1 December 2023
Unable to join the Visegrad Group in 1991, Romania had to create its own path to European integration. Difficult as it was, and still is, this brought a series of lessons to the second-largest country of Central-Eastern Europe. These lessons enable a new generation of Romanians to better define their political interest and turn the country into a more active regional player.
Once upon a time, joining the Visegrad Group (V4) was Romania’s impossible dream. Scarred by a Maoist political regime, with a collapsing economy, Stalinist institutions and a political elite who emerged from the secondary ranks of the Communist Party, Romania in 1990 was only half-way out of communism.
The country was incapable to join the alliance launched by Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, that had initiated reforms since the 1980s. Political instability and hesitation in the 1990s diminished Romania’s ability to restructure faster and be, even separately, an equal of the four Visegrad countries.
Paths visibly diverged, with the V4 integrating sooner into both NATO and the EU.
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