A Patriarch of Militant Europeanism: Adrian Marino
A Patriarch of Militant Europeanism: Adrian Marino

Summary/Abstract: In Memoriam Adrian Marino - The resurrection of Europeanism as ideology in post-communist Romania was done in villa from downtown Cluj, in the surroundings of the library of a great scholar who had reached the biological – but not psychological, old age, in the years following the 1989 overthrow. Back then, after two years during which Ion Iliescu and his collaborators had thought that the autochthonous revolutionary impetus could be quenched by a Gorbachev-like government of the perestroika–glasnost type, the arresting of the last USSR president, his stormy release and the dissolution, in 1991, of the communist colossus in the east threw the Romanian decision-makers into a persistent state of confusion for the years to follow. The voice that was distinctly heard, for those who chose to listen to it, putting forward the natural orientation towards the European Union – not only in the field of Romania’s external alliances, but also as a pattern of civilisation, was that of Adrian Marino.

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