“Personally, I was not expecting this kind of event to happen in 2021,” said Ciucă, who was speaking in the Romanian capital Bucharest during the Atlantic-Black Sea Security Forum, organised by the Aspen Institute Romania in partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Ciucă added, however, that the hijacking should not remain without sanctions.
“It is an attack on our way of life, on democracy,” he said.
In Russia’s immediate neighbourhood, the downing of the plane was less unexpected, and defence ministry officials were quick to point the finger at the Kremlin.
“In Kyiv, [the incident] did not come as a surprise,” said Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, adding: “Belarus has already been annexed by Russia, by hybrid measures, just as happened in Crimea.”
As a result of the current pandemic and the concurrent economic, social, and climate crises, there is an increasing preoccupation for societal resilience in Europe and the US.
2021 Socrates Romania Online Healthcare Seminar
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On May 26-27, 2021,
Aspen Institute Romania will organize an international online seminar under the framework of the Aspen Healthcare & Quality of Life Program, debating the resilience of healthcare systems and key challenges in public medicine, in the context of the SARS – COV- 2 pandemic.
The seminar will be conducted in English and will consist of two 4-hour sessions, one session each day of the seminar. If you are interested in participating, please contact [email protected].
The Future of Public Health:
Building a More Resilient Post Pandemic System
Public health systems of countries around the world continue to be put to the test by SARS-COV-2 pandemic. This unique and often allusive disease seems perfectly designed to expose systemic weaknesses and tests the decades-old question in public medicine of how to balance innovation and universal healthcare. Countries around the world have managed t