Étiquette : Party politics
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The Greatest Challenge for the New President.
By Cristian Preda, University of Bucharest. This article was first published in the review Comunitatea liberală 1848 on the 26th May 2025. Link to the original article in Romanian: Cea mai grea problemă pentru noul președinte – Comunitatea Liberala. Ion Iliescu was born in 1930, Emil Constantinescu nine years later, Traian Băsescu saw the light…
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Romania’s Shock Vote: From Safe Pro‑European Course to a Far‑Right Tide
By Claudia Bădulescu, Free University of Brussels, Institute of European Studies. Shortly after one o’clock on the morning of May 5, 2025, the Central Electoral Bureau in Bucharest released near‑final figures from the first round of Romania’s presidential election. They read like the script of an improbable political thriller. George Simion, the thirty‑eight‑year‑old leader of the…
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Central Europe is, both literally and figuratively, not in a good place.
By Sean Hanley, University College London. This contribution is drawn from an article written by Sean Hanley on his webiste. Be sure to subscribe to it if you want to be informed of his future contributions and to support his work. More than a century ago Czechoslovakia’s future founder-president wrote of the Problem of Small Nations in…
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Slovakia without snap elections for now.
By Juraj Marušiak, Institute of Political Science of Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava. In addition to the sharp polarisation of society between the government camp and the opposition, which concerns the issue of the state’s relationship with civil society, as well as the attitude towards the EU and the war in Ukraine, Slovak politics has…