Analyst Magdin: Romania does not lack leadership human resources

Romania does not lack of leadership human resources but the courage to restore common sense in the public space, analyst Radu Magdin said on Friday, adding that political leaders have the greater responsibility for civic trust to return to the leadership area.

Attending the Bucharest Security Conference, Magdin, CEO of Smartlink Communications, addressed the panel "Understanding adversaries and empowering partners - The role of StratCom in further building resilience and addressing hybrid threats."

He said that Romania "needs more resilience".

"The Centennial Year and the incoming Presidency of the Council of the European Union is a very important moment of opportunity to make a serious investment in the area of resilience (...) Romania needs higher resilience, not so much individually - because the Romanian - as they say is resilient, as rather action at community and national level. This is first and foremost a matter of trust in leadership, but such confidence is not self-generating; such confidence comes only by the certainty provided not only by communication actions but by the alignment of four matters - quality public policies, a strategy for the implementation of these public policies, communication and the assessment and the delivery," Magdin said.

He said that if a leader says he or she is leader, then perhaps he or she is not really a leader.

"At the moment, Romania does not necessarily lack leadership human resources, but it lacks the courage to bring common sense back into the public space. We have to calm down the public opinion in the next period and not forget that we cannot hold elections every two years, every six months for the simple reason that many projects of national interest, including our Centennial and the presidency [of the Council of the EU], will be harmed," he said.

In his opinion, it is necessary to return the citizen's confidence in leadership, and political leaders have the greatest responsibility.

"They have the greatest responsibility, both those at rule, and those in the opposition. We need a Snagov 2, a cross-party agreement on how we see the future, to be communicated simply and to the point, so that citizen's confidence in the leadership may be restored," Magdin added.

On Friday and Saturday, the National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA) organised the third edition of the Bucharest Security Conference, one of the largest international security and defense conferences in Romania that addresses recent developments in defence and security agenda at the eastern borders of the Euro-Atlantic area. AGERPRES (RO - author: Madalina Cerban, editor: Florin Marin; EN - author: Corneliu-Aurelian Colceriu, editor: Adina Panaitescu)