2016
Corneliu-Liviu POPESCU, Romanian Law from Warsaw Pact to NATO
Abstract:
In the period from 1955 to 1992, Romania was a member
of the Warsaw Pact Organization, and since 2004 it is a The North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) member. From a constitutional point of view, the
communist Constitutions did not contain any specific rule related to Romania's
membership of the Warsaw Pact Organization. Instead, the revolutionary
normative acts of constitutional character of December 1989 (originating,
paradoxically, from an alleged anti-communist revolutionary power) proclaimed
Romania's membership of the Warsaw Pact Organization. The constitutional
obligation was suppressed in 1991, through the entry into force of the
post-communist democratic Constitution, which did not contain any rule on the
matter and repealed the revolutionary constitutional acts. Also paradoxically,
the revision of the Constitution of 2003, introducing expressly regulations
regarding Romania's NATO membership, also re-constitutionalized the
revolutionary acts of constitutional character, transforming Romania's
membership of the Warsaw Pact Organization into an ideal of the Romanian State,
although it is a NATO Member and although the European communist
political-military organization has been long dissolved.
Keywords:
Warsaw Pact Organization, NATO, Romanian's Constitutions, Political and
military organizations, Romania's membership.
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