Our conviction is that much of Romania’s political, economic and administrative problems can be traced back to its constitutional flaws, its equivocations, contradictions and outright illiberal provisions reflecting the old establishment.

CADI was one of the first entities to propose constitutional change to the public agenda. The successful launching of the topic in 2006 on the public agenda, its affirmation in the structure of the European annual Conference of free market think tanks that we hosted in Bucharest in 2007, and the three collections of articles published in magazine 22 in 2008, 2009 and 2010 in partnership with Konrad Adanauer Foundation testify for the commitment taken by the new Romanian liberal and libertarian generation to a long term social project.

In 2007, in partnership with local civil organizations we developed a number of in-country conferences in Arad and Craiova under the name “The New Republic”. The project showed the institutional faults leading inevitably to a democratic deficit.

At the beginning of 2009, together with the Institute for Popular Studies we invited Sever Voinescu, Ioan Stanomir, Valeriu Stoica, Corneliu Liviu Popescu, Adrian Miroiu, Cristian Preda, to a public debate on possible concrete remedies for our constitutional shortcomings.

A group of classical liberal advocates together with magazine 22 are publishing editorial collections that treat public issues from a free market perspective. A collection in three volumes deals with the Romanian constitutional document, the source of so much commotion, in a radical and yet foundational manner.