Eleven years after the overthrow of communism, Romania is still searching for solutions to its deeper ills. It is a society in dire need of modernization, burdened with a backward political culture and a ruined economy. The challenge to the political class is how to overcome the patterns set by its predecessors, who introduced formal changes while failing to serve their constituent public.
Keywords:
Ceausescu,
coalition,
Communist,
democracy,
Europe,
Iliescu,
Hungarians,
reform,
revolution,
Romania
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