Opinions and analyses

On the afternoon of March 12, out of the blue, Klaus Iohannis comes to the podium of the Cotroceni Palace and announces that „I have decided to enter the competition…

Two years ago, a decision like the one made on Thursday in Brussels would have been greeted with fireworks and champagne corks. After more than a decade of waiting, Romania…

Geo Stroe is just one of the hundreds of military reservists who distribute the messages of Călin Georgescu on Facebook, of the legionnaire Eugen Sechila, and others that are part…

Pro-European parties, PSD, PNL, USR, UDMR, have quickly assumed not only a common governance, but also the designation of a common candidate for the upcoming presidential elections. A candidate who…

The auspices under which the negotiation of the new government majority begins, and implicitly, of the new government, are not bright, and their stakes are, as we have already pointed…

The danger of extremism and the magnetism it exerts on many people is far from over. We have only a respite until the presidential elections, most likely in March-April, to…

Elena Lasconi, who made it to the final of the presidential elections annulled by the Constitutional Court, wrote a letter to Donald Trump on December 7. In it, she specifies…

It’s not good, but it could have been much worse. This would be the synthesis of the unprecedented decision by which the Constitutional Court of Romania annulled the presidential elections…

How President Iohannis came to declassify the CSAT documents, after just a few days following the November 24 election when he stated he was not informed of any issues, and…

My major doubt regarding Călin Georgescu is whether the man is completely unhinged, meaning an authentic psychiatric case deserving specialized care and genuine compassion, or if he is an extremely…

After reviewing all the documents of the intelligence agencies advertised by the presidential administration, the main sensation is that the secret services were completely caught off guard by the scale…

The reports presented by intelligence agencies at Cotroceni mention 25,000 TikTok accounts, coordinated from Russia, 100 online influencers paid by a marketing company, as well as actual vote buying and…

Marcel Ciolacu has achieved a first-time underperformance in the history of PSD: the first time the party has no representative in the presidential final and the lowest parliamentary score in…

The decision of the Constitutional Court, although coming after much scandal and many suspicions, was predictable even though the recount was not completed, as the purpose of the initiative was…

In Romania, during the electoral campaign, Călin Georgescu promoted false information claiming that Elena Lasconi, his opponent, „will support Romania’s involvement in the war in Ukraine against Russia,”according to Mediafax.…

The increase in support for extremist parties in Romania is related to the war at the border. The bloody conflict in Ukraine has caused great unrest in the country, one…

As complicated as the structure of the future parliament will be, as limited, paradoxically, are the governance solutions. We have a pro-European bloc of 55% and an extremist bloc of…

The anti-system vote in Sunday’s elections shows an electorate increasingly dissatisfied with the political class. Sanctioning traditional parties leads to a fragmented parliament with a high potential for gridlock. Sunday’s…

A strong shock was needed to clearly see the toxic reality in which we have immersed ourselves: discredited party leaders, an omni-absent president, powerless intelligence services, paralyzed polling institutions, hysterical…

On July 28, 2024, at the funeral of KGB spy Mihai Caraman, a wreath of flowers was photographed with the inscription: „Mihaela and Mircea Geoană, condolences.” At that time, the…