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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday told the B9 Summit  that “Central and Eastern Europe are under Russian threat.” Zelensky, a late arrival to the summit in Bucharest touched down Wednesday afternoon on a A319 Ukrainian plane, believed to be stationed in Poland for safety reasons. He went straight to the summit at the Cotroceni presidential palace to join fellow guests...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte are expected to attend the B9 summit in Bucharest this week. The Summit of the Bucharest Nine (B9) takes place on Wednesday and will bring together senior NATO, European, and Ukrainian officials for talks on regional security and defense cooperation. It comes as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on into its fifth...

It’s worth taking a look at March to May 2026: Donald Trump's authoritarian regime in the making and Vladimir Putin's dictatorship have simultaneously fallen into the hands of Volodymyr Zelensky's Ukraine. Trump has seen himself in this position twice in the span of only two months thanks to Iran and Russia. In the case of Iran, Trump needed Ukrainian advice...

Universul.net is publishing an interview with Emil Hurezeanu, one of Romania's best regarded intellectuals of the last 50 years and the country's former Ambassador to Germany and Austria. The interview (Romanian version) was carried out by news outlet Puterea a Cincea. "More than 36 years after the fall of communism, we find ourselves in the situation of an aggressive return of...

On Monday, April 27, Romania descended into the ridiculous: Someone with a corruption conviction (Marian Neacșu – PSD) and a former adviser to ex-PM Adrian Năstase (Petrișor Peiu – AUR) announced in unison that they would submit a motion of censure to remove the Government led by Ilie Bolojan. The president, who arrived in Cotroceni as a great reformist...

The United States was designed to resist kings; it now behaves as if it has one. Is the Iran war paused or ended and what terms can America live with? Well, it’s basically up to Trump, as the Republicans who control Congress have handed him their war powers. Will the US attack Cuba? Trump decides. Back down on tariffs? Trump....

Any comprehensive inventory of the war that has thrown the Middle East into chaos will highlight not only Donald Trump’s unprecedented ineptitude committed but also the systematic ineptitude of  Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel. The current U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran are "something I've longed to do for 40 years," Netanyahu admitted on March 1, a day after the first missile strike on...

Not since Yalta has Russia received a greater gift that Trump's weakening of NATO. So poor Mark Rutte, the obsequious secretary general, rushed to Washington to lick a bit more spittle. It is madness. Walking away from the World Health Organization after the greatest pandemic in memory and ripping up global trade were foolish. Undermining the Dept. of Education and...

Romania's broadcasting watchdog on Tuesday withdrew the licenses of Realitatea TV and radio station Gold FM for unpaid fines. The two are  “Romanian websites that consistently promote anti-Western narratives, undermine trust in democratic institutions, and align themselves ideologically with the Kremlin’s geopolitical agenda,” according to a study by Global.espreso.tv In a tense hours-long meeting, the National Audiovisual Council withdrew the broadcasting...

The deal, signed in 2022, envisaged deliveries beginning in 2025, but delays led Romanian Defense Minister Radu Miruta to consider canceling the deal. A $400 million deal for tactical drones has been delayed three times by Elbit, drawing €60 million in fines. Romania fears the systems may become outdated; Elbit says final acceptance tests are set for late April "I am...