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US President Donald Trump has raised the possibility that his Russian President Vladimir Putin may invade other countries following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Speaking at a press conference Wednesday at the end of  the NATO conference in the Hague, Trump was asked whether he considered Putin an enemy and if he believed the Russian leader had territorial...

Romania’s President Nicusor Dan was assigned a plum position in the group photo at his first major international meeting where he mingled with the Western world’s top leaders. The new Romanian president stood behind US President Donald Trump and in front of  NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte president, and just behind the hosts King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the...

Mihai Razvan Ungureanu and Dan Perry write: History is littered with alliances that failed to adapt. As NATO convenes for its summit, it must reorient to the east, where threats are real and commitments strongest. For all the debates about NATO's transformation in the post-Cold War era, one truth has gone largely unspoken: the alliance was always, at its core,...

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Portugal celebrated its national day on Thursday at Romania's National Art Museum with fado music and Portuguese cuisine in an evening to mark 40 years since Lisbon signed the European Union Accession Treaty. On June 12, 1985, "Portugal took a decisive step towards consolidating its hard-earned and then infant democracy; towards economic stability, sustainability, and prosperity; towards the Rule of...

Calin Georgescu, the radical outsider whose shock win of the first round of presidential elections last year led to allegations of Russian interference and an unprecedented decision to cancel the election has announced his retirement from political life. Georgescu, who was barred from taking part in the May redo of the election, was favored to hold a a key position...

Nicusor Dan officially becomes Romania’s president on Monday at a critical time for the nation which is battling the European Union’s biggest budget deficit and a loss of faith in mainstream politics. Having defied the odds to defeat hard-right nationalist George Simion in the May 18 runoff, the independent Bucharest mayor will start work on forming a new government with...

Romanians go to the polls on Sunday in a fressh attempt to elect a president after the original vote was cancelled over allegations of Russian and other malign foreign interference. The election pits a nationalist, George Simion, leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), against three centrists: the popular mayor of Bucharest Nicusor Dan; Crin Antonescu, a...

The Germans, the Canadians, now the Australians have decided, at the polls, that the fate of their nations cannot be left at the mercy of the local versions of MAGA, which are  dominant today in Washington, at the mercy of a destructive president, installed today at the White House with his friends, oligarchs and relatives. Romania also has no shortage...

A Trump official who is in Romania to monitor its redo of presidential elections, praised Bucharest for annulling the original ballot and confirmed foreign interference in the procedure, naming Russia but noting there were other malign foreign actors. Vice chairman of the Federal Electoral Commission, Republican James E. Trainor said that defense and security documents “show very clearly that there...