Moldova president nominates investor Vasile Tofan as prime minister
Moldova's President Maia Sandu on Saturday nominated investor Vasile Tofan to be the country's prime minister.
Tofan, 44, supported Sandu in the 2024 presidential election, and her pro-Western PAS party in the 2025 parliamentary election. He is a senior partner at investment firm Horizon Capital.
The previous prime minister Alexandru Munteanu announced his surprise resignation last month saying he could no...
EU Parliament condemns Pakistan over case of girl forced into child marriage
The European Parliament has adopted an emergency resolution condemning the treatment of Maria Shahbaz, a 13-year-old Christian girl from Lahore whose case has become a symbol of the plight faced by religious minority girls in Pakistan.
Maria disappeared in July 2025. According to her family, she was abducted, pressured into converting to Islam, and forced to marry a Muslim man...
Erdogan’s Turkey Should Not Get F-35s
Erdogan, whom Trump “likes,” has gutted democracy, menaced allies, drifted toward America’s adversaries and turned anti-Israel radicalism into state policy
Trump has always had a peculiar affection for strongmen. He admires rulers who concentrate power, dominate institutions, intimidate enemies and present themselves as the living embodiment of the nation. Few fit that description better than Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, so...
Searches, seizures and arrests in Germany, Poland and the Netherlands in large-scale VAT fraud
The probe is called Investigation Huracán
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cologne (Germany) has uncovered additional information within the large-scale VAT fraud investigation Huracán, leading to two arrests in Germany and the Netherlands, and searches and seizures in Germany, Poland and the Netherlands on Thursday.
The suspects are believed to have bought cars from the main suspects, who were...
The Liberal Party’s plans for the next two years
The National Liberal Party is undergoing a period of self-immunization—one it did not seek, but could not avoid.
If the party led by Ilie Bolojan manages to adapt to the aggressive restrictions that President Nicușor Dan-PSD impose on it and a politically-influenced justice-system, this will not only strengthen it electorally, but will also make it an object of study in...
INTERVIEW | “It was hard to see what was happening and do nothing.” How a student from Iași became involved in the fight against disinformation
At 16, while many teenagers use social media mainly for entertainment, Rareș Oancea, a high school student from Iași, a city in northeast Romania, created an AI-based platform designed to detect online misinformation. He came up with the idea after the 2024 presidential elections, when he saw how easily Romanians believed and shared false claims.
Where did the idea...
Founder of OVES Enterprise at NATO Summit: ‘In a conflict you can rely only on what is produced at home’
The Romanian defense industry was represented at this week's NATO Summit in Ankara by companies developing state-of-the-art military technologies, including autonomous systems based on artificial intelligence.
Among the participants was Cluj entrepreneur, Mihai Filip, founder and CEO of OVES Enterprise, a global software engineering company that produces drones and develops software solutions for defense.
The agenda there was dominated by the...
Romania to up spending on defense to 3.7%, joins NATO drone procurement initiative
Romania will raise its combined defense and security spending to 3.7% of GDP this year and has also joined NATO's new Drone Edge initiative for joint drone procurement, President Nicușor Dan said.
The president made the announcement on Wednesday at the two-day NATO summit in Ankara. Romania also joined a NATO-backed initiative to acquire Saab GlobalEye surveillance aircraft and signed...
Trump says US troop presence in Europe tied to Greenland deal and Iran
US President Donald Trump has said that the future of US troops in Europe will depend on negotiations over Greenland and developments in the war with Iran.
Trump says has not made a final decision on a potential pullout of American troops in Europe in comments made to reporters on board Air Force One on his way back from this...
The poachers got caught in their own trap they set for the Romanian prime minister
Nicușor Dan, Bucharest, June 30, 2026: "(...) From my perspective, I am not asking for any agreement, any conditions, only for there to be 233 votes."
Nicușor Dan, Ankara, July 8, 2026: "The answer is no". the Romanian head of state said at the NATO summit in Ankara when asked whether he would invest a government that depended...
