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Three Russian border guards crossed Russia’s border into eastern Estonia on Wednesday morning without permission.  The reason for the probing was not known, but Estonia has reported the event as non-threatening to its security.  They were identified on a hovercraft on the Narva River near the Vasknarva breakwater in Ida-Viru County. The hovercraft stopped at the stone breakwater, situated in both Russian...

Buckingham Palace on Wednesday released a picture of President Nicusor Dan meeting King Charles III Romanian President Nicusor Dan on Wednesday visited King Charles III at Buckingham Palace, said a brief statement issued by the royal family on social media. The statement did not say what was discussed during the meeting between the president and the British monarch. Nicusor Dan met the...

Journalists, representatives of civil society and civic organizations have signed an open letter expressing their solidarity with the editorial staff of the Recorder, after its journalists were slated following its expose of Romania’s judicial system.  The two-hour documentary called ‘Captured Justice” which was aired this month investigates serious, structural problems in the judiciary and alleges a clampdown on basic judicial...

For those who don’t know, the EU issued a complete combustion engine ban by 2035.  Now, this cornerstone of climate policy has been dumped: automakers are only required to lower their emissions by 90%.  In Germany, for instance (a key player in the car discussion), political hesitation and public skepticism have increasingly watered down the clarity and impact of that goal...

In the last few days, including the reaction he had after watching the documentary Recorder and on Tuesday, in Helsinki, when President Nicușor Dan declared himself a supporter of self-regulation of the justice system, and the self-government of magistrates, of distillation and internal resolution of various problems (many of them, really serious) between and by prosecutors, judges and their...

Trump mocks murdered movie director and praises his own greatness Rob Reiner was beloved by American audiences ever since he played the son-in-law “Meathead” on “All in the Family” and he has since been the auteur of some of the finest films of recent decades. After he and his wife were murdered, and with his troubled son suspected of the...

Romanian retail investors are distrustful of the local economy but appear increasingly confident in their own living standards, jobs and income, according to the latest quarterly eToro Retail Investor Beat survey.  The level of distrust in the Romanian economy remained high in the fourth quarter of  2025, 70% of Romanian retail investors saying they are not confident about its...

Former Romanian president Traian Băsescu has issued a stark warning about the country’s economic trajectory.  He has publicly claimed that unless the current government immediately reduces public spending, Romania could be forced within two to three years to sell its strategic national assets of the Constanța Port, the Midia Port, Otopeni Airport, and major energy infrastructure just to cover the...

We cannot know what how Nicușor Dan wants to be remembered or what legacy he intends to leave for Romanians when his mandate or mandates end. If he has thought this far ahead of course. Given the context in which he was elected to Romania’s highest office in  the May presidential election redo, he would not have ruled out having...

In this episode of Critical Conditions, Claire and I focused on the antisemitic attack in which two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, killing 16 people and wounding dozens more. The world is asking urgent questions: Could this be the first of many such attacks? Who might be behind it? And how can we...