On the Road in EU. Reviewing the Cultural Year 2006. A Psychologist through the Communist Prisons

Leading article In the beginning of 2007, Carmen Musat proposes a short review of the Romanian cultural field during the last year, exam passed successfully by both writers and editors, as well as cultural institutes. Although welcoming the revival of essay and cultural studies in 2006 and translation projects like the one supported by ICR (Romanian Cultural Institute), Carmen Musat stresses the yet to be satisfied necessity of ‘promoting as efficiently as possible our values in an international cultural market of an extreme dynamism’. Politics Sabina Fati, Ciprian Ciucu, Alexandru Hancu, Stefan Borbely and Bedros Horasangian discuss their expectations, fears, illusions and possible changes related to Romania joining the European Union in 2007. While Sabina Fati expresses her skepticism regarding Russia as a submissive neighbour of a new member of EU, Ciprian Ciucu insists on the necessity of a real understanding of what European citizenship is about, beyond the glitter of the name. A gloomy view on EU belongs to Alexandru Hancu, who dwells upon the dark side of the paradise in an article entitled ‘The End of the World’. In a similar tone, Stefan Borbely criticizes the politics of EU, which encourages the shifty having no vocation whatsoever, while […]