Professor Valentin Naumescu explained what, correctly, sovereignist and anti-sovereignist mean, in the context in which the press talks about leaders such as Călin Georgescu, Diana Șoșoaca or George Simion as being part of the so-called “sovereignist pole”.
Călin Georgescu considers himself a sovereignist. PHOTO: Inquam Photos
In the context in which the parties POT, SOS and AUR, respectively their leaders, Călin Georgescu, Diana Șoșoacă and George Simion, are presented in the mass media as part of the so-called “pole of sovereignists”, Valentin Naumescu, professor of international relations at The Faculty of European Studies of Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj, the president of the think tank Initiative for European Democratic Culture (ICDE) and the director of the EUXGLOB Center, explained what it means, correctly, sovereignist and anti-sovereignist.
“Please stop with the inept wording “sovereignist pole”! We are talking about the pole of extremists, the pole of the anti-system, the pole of anti-Westerners, isolationists and Russophiles! More correctly – the pole of anti-sovereignists and friends of Russian imperialism“, claimed professor Valentin Naumescu, on his Facebook page.
“Sovereign is pro-Western Romania
The teacher presented a series of examples regarding the meaning of the words sovereign, anti-sovereign, sovereignist, anti-sovereignist:
“SOVEREIGN is Ukraine when it expresses the democratic will of a nation to join the EU and NATO, the Western world, and escape the prison of the Russian world!
ANTI-SOVEREIGNIST is Putin’s Russia when it invades a sovereign democratic state and threatens with nuclear weapons states and nations that want to be as far as possible from the Kremlin’s tyranny and continuous lies!
SOVEREIGN is pro-Western Romaniawho joined because that’s what we, the free Romanian citizens, wanted, democratic nations, who love freedom, reason, science and development!
ANTI-SOVEREIGNTY is the political option of authoritarianism and the cult of political extremism, ignorance and anti-science conspiracy, which holds individuals captive in the darkness of hatred, violence and lack of education!
SOVEREIGN is the European Union, a freely consented union of democratic, developed, prosperous states and nations, a Union that has – indisputably – reached the space with the highest living standards in history and the best quality of life in the world!
ANTI-SOVEREIGNERS are the supporters of delusional lies, anti-science nonsense, historical ignorance and criminal legionnaires, anti-Semitism and hatred towards everything that means knowledge, education, civilization, science, development, responsible freedom.
SOVEREIGN is NATO, the defensive alliance that defends and guarantees since 1949 the freedom, security and territory of its democratic member countries.
ANTI-SOVEREIGNIST is precisely the political current that wants to take us out of the developed free world, to bring us back to the dictatorship and the backward sphere of Moscow’s domination.
“These are the correct meanings of sovereignism and anti-sovereignism“, concluded Naumescu, on the centrupolitic website.
Who is Valentin Naumescu?
VALENTIN NAUMESCU is a professor of international relations at the Faculty of European Studies of Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj, the president of the think tank Initiative for European Democratic Culture (ICDE) and the director of the EUXGLOB Center. He is qualified in the management of doctorates in the field of international relations and European studies and is the coordinator of the master’s program in International Relations, Foreign Policy and Crisis Management (in English) at UBB Cluj. Between 2005 and 2007 he was secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and between 2008 and 2012 he was the consul general of Romania in Toronto. He has the diplomatic rank of minister-counselor, obtained through competition. He has published 23 books, in Romania and abroad (Great Britain, Canada, Holland), as sole author, co-author, editor or co-editor and over 60 scientific articles and chapters/studies in specialized journals and collective volumes. Books published in recent years include: Great Power Politics in Central and Eastern Europe. 30 Years Since the End of the Cold War (Humanitas, 2019), The New European Union and Its Global Strategy: From Brexit to PESCO (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), The US-China War for Supremacy and the Five Forces Changing the World. Consequences for Romania (Polirom, 2022) and Great Powers’ Foreign Policy: Approaching the Global Competition and the Russian War against the West (Brill, 2023).
