Opinions and analyses

Friday morning, at 10.30, an explosion shook Port Constanța. A Ukrainian drone Sea Baby, more of a spy drone, being full of radars and monitoring systems, self-destructed. Minutes before, Romanian…

While Russia is holding its annual international economic forum in St. Petersburg, Ukraine has launched dozens of drones over the city, targeting a major oil terminal and military objectives. Participants…

Monday was a day that showed why the longstanding problems in the Middle East are so deceptive for American presidents. Donald Trump learned another important lesson. The fragile diplomatic effort…

American President Donald Trump had a highly tense phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday amid Israel’s escalating military operations in Lebanon. Following the discussion, Israel backed…

Over 48 hours have passed since a Russian drone struck a residential building in Galați, a city in Romania with almost 300,000 inhabitants, and neither the US president nor any…

There are moments in international relations when silence speaks louder than a thousand statements. For Romania, the crash of a Russian drone into a residential building in Galați is one…

Eleven days ago, in an interview conducted with Iulian Fota, an expert in national security and former Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he told me that…

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) appreciates that the reactions of Russian officials following the incident in which a drone crashed on Romanian territory, on a building in…

What can NATO do after the crash of a drone attributed to Russia on a residential building in Romania, a member country of the military alliance? The organization is working…

Confusion regarding the repeated violations by Russian drones of Romanian airspace, political leadership crisis, and chaos in national defense and security institutions have generated a blockage on the command decision…

In the spring of 2022, shortly after Vladimir Putin ordered his army to invade Ukraine, tens of thousands of young people from Russia emigrated to the West out of fear…

Senior European officials fear that Russia may be preparing an attack on NATO in the next 12 months to cover the unfavorable developments in the war in Ukraine. There are…

In the new era of a battlefield dominated by drones, the Russian army takes advantage of an extensive system of underground infrastructure from the Soviet era, using it as a…

Romanians enter the summer of 2026 with two major themes dominating the public agenda: corruption and economic pressure. Almost 28% of respondents in a survey say that the country’s main…

Religion, conspiracy theories, and political activism blend in an online network built around Călin Georgescu, where hundreds of people are called to collective prayers, fasting, and mobilization for support rallies…

Thursday’s consultations with „free electrons” from Parliament are a cat shown by Nicușor Dan to Ilie Bolojan. It’s no surprise that the president didn’t truly want Ilie Bolojan as prime…

An email containing files full of documents about the propaganda operations carried out by the Kremlin in European countries arrived a few weeks ago at the FIP (Fact Investigation Platform)…

At the beginning of 2024, when the numbers from sociological studies already showed that Marcel Ciolacu, the prime minister and leader of the social democrats at the time, did not…

The European Union is approaching a compromise regarding the trade deal negotiated with the administration of Donald Trump, but the biggest dispute is no longer with Washington, but rather between…

According to political sources, Nicușor Dan will appoint a technocrat in the coming days to form a parliamentary majority to support the new government, but the chances of success are…