Dragoș Moldoveanu was born in 1985 in Romania (Neamț county).
He graduated from the Faculty of Political Science – University of Bucharest (2008), and the Faculty of Law – Nicolae Titulescu University (2020). He holds a Master in Political Theory (2013).
Author of more than 100 articles, book reviews and translations published in “The Conservative Movement”, “Lumea Magazin” (Romania), “Convorbiri literare” (Romania), “Rost” (Romania), “Verso” (Romania), “Nazione Futura” (Italy), he is the founder and President of the Institute for Renaissance Studies Assocation (Romania).
Currently he is a Parliamentary advisor at the Romanian Senate and a member of the Board of the Mihai Eminescu Institute for Conservative Political Studies and General Secretary of “Rost” Association.

“The area between the Adriatic, the Baltic and the Black Sea is the lifeblood of Europe”, declared Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović at the first Three Seas Summit in 2016.

Officially announced on 29 September 2015 at the UN General Assembly in New York by Andrzej Duda, then the newly elected President of Poland, and his Croatian counterpart Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, the Three Seas Initiative (I3M) was one of the major foreign policy challenges of the beginning of Duda’s first term in office.

The revival of this huge project at regional level, with ambitious, innovative and strategically important objectives in the energy, transport, digital communication sectors in Central and Eastern Europe, has significant economic and, obviously, political stakes. All the more so in the current geopolitical context, the modernisation of existing networks and the creation of new routes, the development of infrastructure to ensure energy security and the promotion of efficient digital solutions are the main objectives that this new regional cooperation alliance has set itself.

Largely thanks to Poland, 12 countries, all members of the European Union, initially sat down to dialogue and identify solutions in energy and transport infrastructure. Those countries were: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, the three Baltic republics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Republic of Slovenia and Hungary. At this year’s summit in Bucharest, Greece became the thirteenth country to join the I3M. In the last two years, two other countries, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, have been granted partner status.
The member states of the Initiative form a north-south axis, bordered on the north by the Baltic Sea, on the south-west by the Adriatic Sea and on the south-east by the Black Sea, covering almost a third of the European Union’s territory.

Some argue that we are witnessing today the de facto revival of a geopolitical plan imagined and strongly supported by the former Chief of State and prime minister of Poland, Józef Piłsudski, dating back to the 1920s. Miedzymorze or Intermarium (’Between the Seas’ – the Latin translation) was intended to be the creation of a federation of Central and Eastern European states with a political and economic role, made up of states between the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Seas. After the First World War, the Intermarium was envisioned as an alliance to neutralise the outright political and geographical expansion ambitions of imperialist Germany and Bolshevik Russia. But the adversity of the Western powers, opposition from Russia and others who dissaproved on Marshal Józef Piłsudski’s plan, and the outcome of the Polish-Soviet War were the main reasons for its failure. Another plan, also by Marshal Piłsudski, for a federation comprising Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Scandinavian countries, the Baltic States, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece, faced the same fate.
Going back to the present, in the relatively short history of the Initiative, two Summits have been held in Bucharest, in 2018 and 2023, Romania being the only country to have hosted this large-scale event twice. Romania’s interest was to emerge itself as a significant player on the regional scene and even to become, alongside Poland, one of the pillars of this growing strategic partnership.

We do not know whether the Three Seas Initiative will truly be the powerful regional alliance dreamed of by the great politician and founder of modern Poland, Józef Piłsudski. But almost a century later, thirteen countries bordering the three seas are forming an economic platform with major goals, proposing and implementing solutions, seeking to realise a spectacular vision from another historical era.