Étiquette : Romania
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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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Dark clouds at the start of the Romanian presidential campaign.
By Cristian Preda, University of Bucharest. This article was first published in the review Comunitatea liberală 1848 on the 4th of April 2025. Link to the original article in Romanian: Nori negri la startul campaniei – Comunitatea Liberala. We have five candidates for Cotroceni who could, in principle, exceed 10%. In alphabetical order, they are…
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Why doesn’t Romania want to send troops to Ukraine? « There is a fear that Russia could find a pretext, a casus belli ».
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By Sergiu Mișcoiu, Babeș-Bolyai University, interviwed on 29/03/2025. This interview was first published in adevarul.ro. Link to the original interview in Romanian: De ce nu vrea România să trimită trupe în Ucraina? „Există teama că Rusia ar putea găsi un pretext, un casus belli”| ANALIZA | adevarul.ro. The coalition of European countries that want to…
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Florian Marin: We cannot talk about achievements when we talk about just transition in Romania.
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Interview led by Vladmir Mitev on the 28th of February 2025 with Florian Marin, a Romanian trade union leader and economist. This interview was first published in Cross-border Talks and is used with the agreement of the interviewer. Link to the original interview : Florian Marin: We cannot talk about achievements when we talk about…
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A new Romanian nationalism.
By Cristian Preda, University of Bucharest. This article was first published in the review Comunitatea liberală 1848 on the 4th of March 2025. Link to the original publication, in romanian: Să venim împreună și să facem un push mare – Comunitatea Liberala. Even if she was in the spotlight for only a few days, Anamaria Gavrilă…