The future is in knowledge and technology. Why do we keep missing It?
Romania spends €55 per capita on business R&D — last in the EU, next to an average of €597. This piece traces the gap beyond the usual "mentality" narrative into corruption, bureaucracy, brain drain, and multinational-driven organizational culture,…
Exclusive interview with Constantin Pintilie: BlueSpace Technology, technological autonomy, and Romania’s strategic future
True sovereignty is not declared — it is built, layer by layer, in laboratories, factories, and decision rooms. In this exclusive interview for Andrei Eugen Drăguț, Constantin Pintilie, founder of BlueSpace Technology — the only Eastern European company…
The inheritance from a Romania that never finished becoming Itself
Romania did not only produce political events. It produced adaptations: distrust, vigilance, shame, improvisation, private loyalty, civic exhaustion, and a fragile but persistent hope. This is not a theory of Romanian victimhood. It is an attempt to…