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THE POST-TRUTH PARADIGM: The ICE killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti illustrate how the Trump Administration has no hesitation about lying – yet the right-wing media just won’t call them on it One of the most striking things about the horrible events in Minnesota – other that the twin ICE killings themselves – is how casually and brazenly the...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bulgaria has secured a conviction at the Sofia City Court against a company manager, following a plea agreement, in an investigation into subsidy fraud involving funds from the European Social Fund (ESF) and national co-financing, for a total of €66,750. The Sofia City Court sentenced the manager to eleven months of imprisonment, suspended...

More than 40% of Romanians think their country should join Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, a new survey shows. Donald Trump invited Romania to join the Board of Peace but President Nicușor Dan has not given  a decisive answer and says he is still thinking about it. The condition for a permanent seat on this council is the payment of...

Countries around the world have recently woken up with a new hot potato from Donald Trump: the so-called Board of Peace. Some heads of state quickly accepted the invitation (notably dictators, autocrats, illiberals or leaders crushed by their horrible neighborhoods - see the eloquent case of Armenia). Others gave evasive answers : we’re looking, analyzing, not rejecting of course, but not...

On Truth Social, Donald Trump has threatened to apply a whopping 100% tariff on all Canadian goods if Canada’s prime minister strikes a trade deal with China. This coms after increased tension between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney after Trump’s controversial speech at Davos.  After Carney spoke at Davos, Trump followed. "Canada lives because of the United States," he...

President Nicușor Dan was booed on Saturday at a ceremony in eastern Romania to celebrate the dawn of the modern day state. He reminded his detractors that the 1989 Romanian revolution that ended communism had given them the right to criticize public officials. Romania's National Unification Day or "Little Union" Day, is celebrated annually on January 24th marking the 1859...

In the space of only a few days, the American president was forced to look directly at what he hates most: his own failure. And failure flooded his field of vision on all levels: As soon as he landed in Davos, he started on Greenland again. He said goodbye to tariffs, goodbye to obtaining a title deed for the "piece...

Geopolitical instability, Greenland, tariffs, the Trump effect, uncertainties about US, European, and Japanese debt, and the prospects of AI are making markets nervous and prompting a rise in precious metals, including gold and silver. In a single session on Tuesday, the S&P 500 index erased all this year's gains just to slightly rebound in the green yesterday after Trump's speech...

Romania is preparing a high-speed railway of almost 800 kilometers, which will cost an estimated EUR 15 billion, according to a feasibility study. The corridor will stretch from the Black Sea to the western border, from Constanța to Oradea, and involves a combination of modernizing existing lines for speeds of 200 km/h and constructing new double lines that will allow...

Romania’s President Nicușor Dan on Friday expressed solidarity with Denmark in the Greenland crisis, but said that Bucharest considers the U.S to be its main security pillar. “For Romania, the United States of America is an essential strategic partner for the country's security and we are acting accordingly,” Dan said Friday, after the informal European Council in Brussels. He said many...