State participation in the financial and banking sector became a serious research topic for me back in 2008-2009, when the state owned a controlling stake in one of the largest banks in the country – “Banca de Economii”. And a decade later, in 2019, my colleagues and I in the Collective Action Party – Civic Congress included this complex problem, as an element of political-economic tools, in the party’s program documents and started a public discussion.
