Dilemele regionalizării: între federalismul constituţional şi personalizarea puterii în numele interesului public* (Dilemmas of regionalisation: between constitutional federalism and the personalization of power in the name of public interest)

Abstract

Public life in Romania is animated by a new subject, the reappraisal of the Constitution. Is it predictable, at least to a certain point, how ample will these changes be and how will they contribute to the improvement of the daily life of Romanian citizens? These are just some of the questions the above mentioned initiative raises. It has become almost a habit for political analysts to regret the population’s lack of civism in problems of general interest. But a strong civil society is improbable in a country with extended and almost continuous economic difficulties. Political rights are absent or at least dysfunctional in the absence of economic rights. This is where the new Constitution could prove its utility: by becoming a federation, Romania could offer an authentic meaning to the extremely used term of regionalization. But how feasible is this project in the present conditions? And what consequences might entail?

Keywords

• regionalization
• federalization
• public interest
• civism
• democracy