Russia, which still dominates the discourse on security – a powerful, expansionist giant capable of overcoming NATO’s eastern flank – is increasingly resembling a ghost. What exists instead is a…
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The EU country moving increasingly closer to Trump and MAGA while much of Europe turns away from the US
While relations between Donald Trump and several European states cool down, Greece is trying to become one of the closest allies of the Republican administration in Europe. Prime Minister Kyriakos…
How and why the leu fell 3.4% in one week. Panic among consumers and companies raises fears of a sharp downturn
The euro currency sharply increased on Wednesday, May 6, to a historic level of 5.2688 lei. The political crisis triggered by PSD has turned into a governmental crisis through the…
Politico: European parties improperly spent €1.5 million in the EU election campaign
Almost all European political parties have violated the rules regarding the use of EU funds in the campaign for the 2024 European Parliament elections. According to an internal report of…
Nicușor Dan, the great defeated of the motion of censure
The President of Romania, throughout the political crisis, repeatedly emphasized whenever he had the opportunity that he is nothing but a „mediator.” By adopting such a position, he placed himself…
10 billion lei in 11 days: the cost of the political crisis - pressure on the exchange rate, interest rates and BNR reserves
The population and the private sector have already begun to pay the price for the political crisis triggered by the PSD, through the withdrawal of ministers from the government on…
Romania, without PSD?
In recent days, a race against the clock has taken place between social democrats and liberals for the votes on the motion. Negotiations were conducted face to face, and each…
Billions in investments at stake in political crisis: who controls the contracts?
Rivers of money and investments will flow into Romania in the coming years, and in just a few weeks and months, employees from the public administration and private sector will…
U.S., six months before elections that could shape the fate of Trump’s presidency
The United States entered the last six months before the midterm elections, a decisive legislative vote for the future of President Donald Trump’s second term. After two years that deeply…
Romania: How much of the media is still uncaptured?
Why do Romanians no longer trust the mass media? Not only because there are media trusts that directly support certain parties, but also because these parties actually finance their propaganda…
The alienation of AUR supporters. What remains of "Sorin, be good!" and "don't act like a virgin girl"?
Rarely has a motion of no confidence become such a tough and dangerous test for the parties involved. PSD, positioned somewhere below 20% in the electorate’s preferences, according to internal…
Trump rattles ties with Germany: plan to withdraw US troops catches even the Pentagon off guard
President Donald Trump announced that he is considering withdrawing some of the US troops from Germany, triggering confusion and concern in Washington. Defense officials say they had no plans for…
How Grindeanu struggles to convince moderate Europeans that the alliance with AUR does not mean extremism
Romania ranks 6th in terms of the number of MEPs in the European Parliament, with 33, and what is happening in Bucharest is making waves fairly quickly in Brussels and…
Wagon with Grindeanu, locomotive with Bolojan
Romanian politics has long lost any trace of reason. Looking at the statement of Marian Neacșu, former deputy prime minister from the PSD and negotiator of the party with AUR…
An adviser to Nicușor Dan announces that the president has not forgotten who voted for him and why - Video interview
The Bolojan Government cannot be saved in the face of the alliance between AUR and PSD. Moreover, it is hard to assume that the current political crisis will disappear once…
King Charles, mission accomplished at the court of America's mad monarch
The charm of the British sovereign, on an official four-day visit to the United States, has enchanted President Donald Trump and members of the US Congress, in an authentic demonstration…
Russia simmers in silence. Putin responds the only way he knows
Four years after the invasion of Ukraine, discontent is beginning to surface in Russia, against the backdrop of increasingly frequent issues with the Internet and the restrictions weighing on daily…
Nicușor Dan's political godfather believes that he is playing into the hands of the PSD
No matter how distant you look at the evolution of the current president of Romania, he had in Ludovic Orban a guardian angel who intervened decisively in key moments of…
How is a motion of no confidence negotiated? A former prime minister recounts how he won one, lost another, and resisted a third in a tough battle with PSD
To understand and present the dynamics of parties and negotiation mechanisms in Parliament in a political crisis situation, it is best to look at recent history and see what has…
The conspiracy monster Trump created turns against him as allies question his legitimacy
American President Donald Trump is facing a paradoxical phenomenon: the conspiracy theories he has fueled for years are starting to be used against him. Some influential voices within his camp…