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President Nicușor Dan reassured Romanians ‘they have no reason to worry’ US tankers or refueling aircraft, US military, and military equipment are to be deployed in Romania to back the US-Israel  war against Iran, the president said Wednesday. Speaking after a meeting of the country’s top defense council,  Dan said:  “We are talking about refueling aircraft, as has already been...

Romania's special defense council is to discuss letting US planes and military use a Black Sea NATO base potentially for strikes on Iran, which is less than 2,000 kilometers away. President Nicusor Dan has called a meeting of the Supreme Council (CSAT) Wednesday morning to discuss “the temporary deployment of military capabilities on the territory of Romania", which is a...

President Donald Trump began his second term with an unprecedented confrontation with Europe. On the menu were threats against the EU, insults and punitive measures (tariffs, or nominal sanctions, such as those against former commissioner Thierry Breton and not only). The formalization of the anti-European direction appeared in a key document – the National Security Strategy. A land where opposition and freedom...

“Those sanctions waivers happened, as much as anything else, because of the                     relationship between the prime minister (Viktor Orban) and the President (Donald               Trump).  And so I think all I can tell you is that’s the – that relationship and the       ...

Romanian President Nicusor Dan says that discussions at the informal meeting of the European Council on Thursday were not "the 14th Congress" the last Communist Party Congress before Nicolae Ceausescu’s fall from power weeks later. "Some tough things were said,” during Thursday's talks which focused on economic issues. "Everyone agrees that Europe is not moving fast enough," he said. "In terms...

Poor Trump made the same mistake as his idol, Putin: he had thought he could quickly crush Ukraine, he thought Europe was already crushed. Finally, Europe has accepted reality: that the Trump administration's hostility to the ‘old continent’ is deep, but above all that the Trump administration's hostility needs to be met with the same response. Finally, in recent weeks, Europe...

President Nicusor Dan on Monday congratulated the president-elect of Portugal, a moderate socialist Antonio Jose Seguro, expressing  confidence in ongoing cooperation and strengthening of friendship between the EU and NATO nations. "Congratulations and best wishes to António José Martins Seguro for his recent election as the new president of the Portuguese Republic," President Nicusor Dan wrote on the X network...

We can be certain of one thing: Romanian nationalist leader George Simion sweats like a horse and toils like a dog to get a place at the top table. He has multiple responsibilities on his shoulders: he’s a waiter at Putin's table, a waiter at Trump's table, and a waiter at the tables of those who would sabotage the rules-based...

Not so fast, Carney: You're declaring collapse where there is structural damage. Imagine the following world. Donald Trump runs for president in 2024 not as a vessel for cultural grievance and unhinged ego, but on an explicit platform of demolition. He openly campaigns on dismantling the administrative state and independent institutions, treating alliances as liabilities, discarding NATO, abandoning Ukraine, aligning...

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...