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Romanian tourists clocked up almost one million overnight stays in Bulgaria in 2025,  8.5% more than the previous year, and the highest number of tourists from Romania ever recorded. It is a remarkable increase of 51.2% compared to the level of 2019, before the pandemic. Acting Tourism Minister Miroslav Borsos said Saturday the results were proof of the government’s efforts to...

At Munich, Rubio played the less-horrible cop All eyes were on Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference today: Would he – the seemingly only “normal” in the Trump Administration – mitigate the winds of hostility coming at Europe from the United States these days? To recap real quick, these are the winds: The US under Trump initiated a trade war...

A senior legal adviser to the European Union’s highest court has questioned whether billions of euros in EU funds should have been released to Hungary.  This reopens a politically sensitive dispute over rule-of-law standards inside the European bloc. The funding had originally been frozen in 2022 after the European Commissionconcluded that Hungary was failing to meet key democratic standards.  Brussels raised concerns...

The news that Romania is in a technical recession was greeted by the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in a typical fashion: taking no responsibility and putting the  blame on others to extinguish the fire started by leaders from the previous PSD government under former PSD Marcel Ciolacu: "Certainly, there is a main culprit for the wrong...

Romania's economy grew by 0.6 percent last year but entered a technical recession in the final months of the year after two consecutive quarterly contractions, according to flash estimates published on Friday. Seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 1.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2025 from the previous quarter, following a 0.2 percent decline in the third...

A debate with conservative pundit Daniel DePetris After decades of economic collapse, political repression, and mass displacement, the United States last month oversaw the removal of Nicolás Maduro from power in Venezuela — a dramatic intervention that was widely framed, at least initially, as a reset for Venezuelan democracy. For years Hugo Chávez and then Maduro had destroyed institutions, undermined...

Romanian President Nicusor Dan says that discussions at the informal meeting of the European Council on Thursday were not "the 14th Congress" the last Communist Party Congress before Nicolae Ceausescu’s fall from power weeks later. "Some tough things were said,” during Thursday's talks which focused on economic issues. "Everyone agrees that Europe is not moving fast enough," he said. "In terms...

Romanian athletes will compete on Friday in the snowboard, cross-country skiing and biathlon on Day 7 of the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games. Henrietta Bartalis and Kata Mandel will compete for Romania In the women's snowboard cross from 11:00. Gabriel Cojocaru and Paul Pepene will compete in cross-country skiing – 10 km freestyle interval from 12.45. George Buţa, Marian Colţea, Raul Flore and Dmitrii...

The first meeting of the Board  of Peace, invented by US President Donald Trump, will take place next week, on February 19. Romania, like many other countries, has to decide on two things: whether it will join and whether it will participate the inauguration. Membership also involves weighing two other decisions: you join as a full member, in which case you...

After a year of lickspittle "handling" of Trump, the Europeans are realizing that a new approach is needed if the free world is to be saved   By Robert Hamilton and Dan Perry The Munich Security Conference has always been the West’s annual audit of threats. But at this year’s meeting — from Feb. 13 to 15 — the most urgent conversations...