More than a month after the Constitutional Court Decision no. 32/2024 to annul the elections and less than 4 months before the upcoming election, at least based on current data,…
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Opinions and analyses by the editorial team at SpotMedia.ro, as well as comments from distinguished guests regarding the events of the day.
What would China have to gain if it were to sell TikTok to Elon Musk
After initially opposing the sale of TikTok to avoid the platform’s ban in the United States, the Beijing government seems to have finally found an owner that suits them: Elon…
The new world order announced by Trump to which the weakest must adapt
Trump’s statements about Greenland and the Panama Canal should not be taken as the ramblings of a madman or a bully. The U.S. President-elect is disrupting the world order, and…
What does Elon Musk want from Romania?
In recent weeks, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world with a fortune of $426 billion, according to recent estimates, has also shown interest in Romania, in addition to…
The Disease of Romania
Sending Sunday’s protest into ridicule would be a big mistake. Because it wasn’t about Călin Georgescu, but about the causes that led to its rise. It was a protest about…
How the PSD blows wind into the sails of extremists
If we were to still trust the decisions made within the coalition, the first round of the presidential elections should take place on May 4, the second on May 18,…
"The Trump of Romania with hat in hand at high courts. The risk (expected?) of violence."
Călin Georgescu’s strange departure from the country on the very eve of the major protest he called at the CCR is, at best, just symptomatic of the candidate’s aversion to…
The public interest that Klaus Iohannis does not see
„If I were to leave, I would have to leave through resignation. Of course, this is also possible, but I wouldn’t do it without an extremely solid motivation, for a…
The first American president with the status of a criminal. What does the decision mean for Trump?
Judge Juan Merchan has determined the sentence in Donald Trump’s case, accused of misappropriation of funds for illegal payments to Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress, and this was a…
The new Trump, just like the old Trump, begins his second term by attacking NATO and Europe. Who does this help?
Donald Trump has never criticized the Russian dictator. Many American Republicans, during the electoral campaign and after the November elections, claimed that he would continue to support Ukraine and not…
Conflict between SRI and STS regarding the cybersecurity of elections
Călin Georgescu appears on the Romanian political scene on the evening of November 24. The former system man, with connections to the Foreign Intelligence Directorate, the espionage service of the…
PSD is doing the same thing and hopes to achieve different results. The irresponsible postponement of the elections.
Immediately after the elections on November 24, in a state of shock seeing itself for the first time in its history without a candidate in the final, but also after…
Movies featuring fools who thought they were very clever. Self-denunciation for electoral fraud. Cîrstoiu 2.0?
In a video intended to be humorous, from the „listen and don’t judge” repertoire of a social network otherwise demonized after November 24, Alfred Simonis, current president of CJ Timiș…
Crin Antonescu's Offensive and the Irresponsibility of the PSD
The initiative of the coalition’s common candidate started under the sign of the failure of the experiment from the local elections. The episode of Cătălin Cîrstoiu, the last-minute designated common…
The failed mandate of Iohannis weakened Romania. From victory against the PSD to defeat against Russia
Eduard Hellvig, the former director of the SRI, answered questions from the parliamentary committee on intelligence services control for nearly nine hours. It was a record hearing in the post-December…
The year of anti-populist vaccination
As in any crisis, there is an opportunity, I propose that we see in the year 2025 not just a mountain like a Golgotha that we will have to climb,…
How does the government start? With defiance, lies, and shamelessness
Only the most naive of the naive could imagine that after the multi-election year of 2024 and reaching a budget deficit of 9%, significant corrections would not follow, despite electoral…
What could be Romania's stroke of luck. The wars of extremists
Much of Romania’s misfortune, largely self-inflicted, in having probably the weakest lineup of political leaders in its history is somewhat compensated by the luck that things are not better in…
What is Marcel Ciolacu looking for on TikTok and why can't he find it?
The year 2025 started with a public tattoo. Marcel Ciolacu escaped again on TikTok and turned a statement given to reporters, in the position of prime minister, into a clip…
Mysterious CCR decision to recount votes also influenced by the surprise from secret services
On November 24, when the first round of the presidential elections took place, starting at 8:00 PM, I was invited to the TVR Info studio to comment, alongside other analysts…