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Romanians are headed to the polls again and the eyes of the world are on them as they  elect a president for a second time. Sunday's vote, which follows November’s canceled election, will decide which two candidates — from a field of 11 that includes far-right and anti EU hardliners __ will make it to the runoff on May 18...

Russia's naval war fleet, its air forces, missiles, ground troops, arsenal, weapons factories, military radars, espionage and human infrastructure, and hybrid warfare materials - all these will come dangerously close to Romanian and Moldovan territory practically overnight. The multi-dimensional threat of revisionism will hover over the region as never it has never before in the last hundred years. Romania risks...

TikTok has been flooded in the past week by thousands of accounts pushing pro-Russia and pro-Putin propaganda in Romanian, a new report says. For the first time, Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly directly addresses Romanians: "How many of you want me as president of Romania?" or "If Russia attacks Europe, I will fight for Russia", "Our enemy is Europe, not...

The fact that Moscow's sharpest geopolitical arrow has been removed from Romania’s presidential elections will be seen by them as a major and unexpected failure. But the problems posed by Russian interference in the Romanian electoral process have not gone away. For  Moscow,  withdrawal is not an option. And if backing off isn’t possible, then regrouping and counterattack are its...

George Simion, the leader of Romania’s largest far-right party filed his his bid to run in May’s presidential elections, seeking to woo voters from the former frontrunner who was barred from the race over his anti-democratic views. Simion,  38, who heads Romania's second largest party, the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR), submitted his candidacy with electoral authorities a...

Thousands of people are expected to gather in a rally in support Romania’s place in the European Union and NATO amid fears that an upcoming presidential election may derail the country from its pro-EU path. The “Manifesto for Europe” which is organizing the demonstration is supported by over 40 civic organizations in Romania and abroad and thousands from the fields...

The escalating geopolitical tensions have reshaped Europe's defense landscape, triggering an unprecedented surge in both spending and stock performance across the continent's defense sector. As Europe contemplates a future with potentially diminished US military support, a strategic shift of historic proportions is underway. For investors this is good news as European defense companies are in pole position for new contracts,...

And who's not happy? MAGA and Putinland. There's a reason for that: They want to break up the EU.   In a fascinating twist of post-communist history, Romania has become the latest battleground in the titanic struggle between liberal democracy – the system of government that we thought won the Cold War – and the Russia-led forces that want to turn...

The United States on Tuesday said it would  “immediately lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine" after Kyiv agreed to a 30-day ceasefire proposed by Washington. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine had accepted the proposal following critical peace talks between US and Ukrainian officials in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The ceasefire proposal accepted by Ukraine...

Don't ask questions later - get answers now It’s barely mid-March, and 2025 is already delivering a level of disruption that makes most previous years look tame. We’re not just living through history —we’re slamming into it headfirst, at breakneck speed, and in shocking ways. As we approach the dreaded Ides of March (the 15th of the month, associated with the...