The 1989 Romanian Revolution and the Dutch Parliament (Staten-Generaal): debates and assessments, fall 1989 – winter 1990
The 1989 Romanian Revolution and the Dutch Parliament (Staten-Generaal): debates and assessments, fall 1989 – winter 1990

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the so-called Romanian issue in the Dutch Parliament on the eve and aftermath of the 1989 Revolution. The author comes to the conclusion of contradictory assessments of post-revolutionary perspectives shared by the members of the Dutch Parliament who belonged to various political forces. He pointed out their cautious attitude to those events and their support for democratic changes in post-revolutionary Romania. The deputies viewed the whole issue of transition from Communism to democracy in Romania as inseparable from the process of transformations in Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R. Moreover, the debates revealed both the official stance of governing parties on this question and the opposition criticism of it. At the same time, most of the Dutch parliament deputies considered it necessarily to the Netherlands to take the lead in formulating joint European policy regarding Eastern Europe

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