State Counselor of the Department of National Security Constantin Ionescu, director of the Integrated Information Office, noted on Monday that the main political parties in Romania “forgot to talk” about patriotism, and the development of this topic was left “to their discretion.” populism”.

“Since it was about nationalism, I, for example, prefer to believe in patriotism. Patriotism, according to Saint-Exupéry, is looking together in the same direction, and not looking into each other’s eyes – like love, in fact, this is what he said about love. Patriotism is love. Romania’s big problem is that the political mainstream, the big political parties, have forgotten to talk about it. I firmly believe that any European, when asked what it is, will not say European for the first time, but he will first say his nationality: Hungarian, Romanian, Pole, Czech, whatever, and only then will he say that he is European, which is absolutely natural,” Ionescu said in the library of the Romanian Academy.

On Monday, Ionescu took part in the presentation of the results of the Security Barometer of Romania, conducted by the Laboratory for the Analysis of Information Warfare and Strategic Communications (LARICS) in partnership with the Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations (ISPRI). academy

He believes that “in the end, we have only parades and bricks in the chest associated with a type of nationalism that is not only unacceptable, but also impossible to imagine.”

“And then, instead of talking quite naturally about what patriotism really means, educated patriotism,” said Manyu, “we leave the development of this topic to the discretion of populism, which leads to what we have in this poll as well. I do not believe that the political, economic, academic elite does not know about this. I can’t understand why – I said it before, I think last year here – Petrashcana was killed because he said that “before I became a communist, I was Romanian”. I do not understand why today we cannot say that we are European Romanians. We have a confusion that gives rise to absolutely unacceptable tensions and directions for the development of the natural love of the nation, which are not only unacceptable, but also impossible to imagine, – claimed Ionescu.

According to Constantin Ionescu, the results of the survey were influenced by the war in Ukraine.

“Everything is not so tragic. It is the war that produces all these things, all the results, including the survey. The question is whether we are determined enough to act within our sphere of influence and restore order in this country, because we can be, why not, the sixth, seventh country in this Union, which we are proud to be a part of,” concluded Konstantin Ionescu . (source: Agerpres)