A few brief explanations are in order. First the title. The return to Europe must be understood, exclusively, in the sense of the energetic - and sometimes polemical - reaffirmation of the adhesion and integration of our country and culture into the system of European institutions and values. On all levels. An open assumption of the European idea, under decisions of totalitarian isolation and virulent anti-Western propaganda. Because, for the rest, Romania, a European country, in the full, geographical and cultural sense of the word, has never "exited" and never "left" Europe. After 1989 she only renews a thread and finds her historical tradition in a salutary way. (...) Adrian Marino, Cluj, January 1, 1996
