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The danger facing the anti-PSD movement: A war of attrition between Klaus Iohannis and Dacian Ciolos, PNL, USR, and PLUS

The danger facing the anti-PSD movement: A war of attrition between Klaus Iohannis and Dacian Ciolos, PNL, USR, and PLUS

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29 ian. • 3
One of the greatest dangers threatening the right’s chances of reporting victories in the upcoming electoral battles against the PSD, and to banding together eventually, is the war of attrition between Klaus Iohannis and Dacian Ciolos. Another danger is the competition for the second place between the opposition parties PNL, USR, and PLUS. Part of […]
The real parallel state. How Darius Vîlcov takes over one institution after another, building an army of orcs

The real parallel state. How Darius Vîlcov takes over one institution after another, building an army of orcs

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29 ian. • 10
Darius Vîlcov is turning out to be a serious threat to Romania’s financial stability. Sentenced to 8 years in the lower courts for corruption, an outspoken critic of the West, grown in Slatina, this character oversteps red lines and takes over institutions at an astonishing speed. The latest feat of the man who essentially wrote […]
Who destabilizes the Balkans: Putin or the Americans?

Who destabilizes the Balkans: Putin or the Americans?

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19 ian.
Ahead of his visit to Serbia on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview for „Politika” and „Novosti” accused the United States and other western countries, which he hasn’t named, of destabilizing the Balkans. To back his claim, Mr. Putin offered as examples NATO’s bombing of former Yugoslavia back in 1999, the „illegitimate” recognition […]
The missing piece in the judiciary puzzle. Next step: the colonization of the system

The missing piece in the judiciary puzzle. Next step: the colonization of the system

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17 ian.
The latest decision of the Constitutional Court, which paves the way for the voiding of evidence gathered on the basis of protocols signed with the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) in 2009 and 2016, finally satisfies the interests of those highly placed individuals who are under criminal investigation. On the one hand, those with inquests and […]
G4Media.ro condemns the sanctioning of Realitatea TV on political grounds

G4Media.ro condemns the sanctioning of Realitatea TV on political grounds

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16 ian. • 1
G4Media.ro condemns the double standards, the manifestly disproportionate sanction in relation to alleged violations, and the behavior of National Audiovisual Council towards a TV station which is critical of the powers that be, in this case – Realitatea TV. Freedom of expression is a fundamental right. At moments of utmost social tension, as the events […]
Rheinmetall denounces opaque bidding in a large military contract. The big weapon endowment scandals provoked by PSD

Rheinmetall denounces opaque bidding in a large military contract. The big weapon endowment scandals provoked by PSD

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14 ian. • 16
Over the past two years, the PSD-led government has provoked several major scandals related to the endowment of the army, involving billions of euros. The latest controversy concerns the bid for four corvettes, worth over 1.2 billion euros, suspended by the Ministry of Defense without any plausible explanation. However, there are further problems concerning the […]
The budget of state bankruptcy. Miners Dragnea and Teodorovici are giving the private sector the pick hammer treatment

The budget of state bankruptcy. Miners Dragnea and Teodorovici are giving the private sector the pick hammer treatment

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19 dec. • 2
Promises made to captive voters and projects earmarked for political clients brought PSD face to face with reality: the government has no money for the 2019 budget. In their desperate rush for money, Dragnea, Vâlcov and Teodorovici have invented new taxes and increased existing ones. The three liars, who, for two years, have been trumpeting […]
The National Anticorruption Directorate: Coroner's Report

The National Anticorruption Directorate: Coroner’s Report

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18 dec.
The time of death of the famous National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) was officially called on October 29, 2018 by a DNA prosecutor talking with the interim head of the institution. Until this diagnostic from the inside arrived, we had all been witnessing the DNA agonizing for nearly two years in institutional purgatory. A slow death […]
Mission Impossible: where will Dancila's government find the money for all the pension and salary increases, plus billions for barons

Mission Impossible: where will Dancila’s government find the money for all the pension and salary increases, plus billions for barons

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13 dec.
With the budget for 2019 left hanging in the air, the debacle created by the PSD in the central administration has reached new heights. Populism went off the scale at the National Committee (CEX) meeting on December 10 when Dragnea pulled out of his hat a proposal by which he hopes to keep the barons […]
The emergency decree is coming! Why we cannot wait and see what will appear in the Official Gazette

The emergency decree is coming! Why we cannot wait and see what will appear in the Official Gazette

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11 dec. • 2
This time around, Liviu Dragnea has decided to play with his cards on the table. He summoned, overnight, another National Executive Committee (CEX) to push for the party to assume that it wants to issue an emergency decree (OUG) on amnesty and pardon, bringing a political decision one week closer. Officially, the purpose for issuing […]
They broke one of his fingers

They broke one of his fingers

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06 dec.
By the action in Parliament on Wednesday, the opposition seems to have aimed for an artistic effect when burning the supreme leader’s effigy. After ramming on the agenda the request to revoke Liviu Dragnea from the head of the Chamber of Deputies, the liberals had proclaimed the dictator’s fleeing. Neither the PSD’s leader nor Iordache […]
The PSD government is hanging by 11 MPs. This notwithstanding, a dismissal is unlikely

The PSD government is hanging by 11 MPs. This notwithstanding, a dismissal is unlikely

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05 dec.
The PSD-ALDE coalition lost its majority in the Chamber of Deputies, keeping a total of 244 MPs, only 11 more than the number needed for « anointing » a government. However, if one takes into account the dry calculations of parliamentary mathematics, the removal of the Social Democrats from the government through the motion of […]
SOURCES Amnesty and pardon. Tudorel Toader would be willing to put his approval on the decree, on the condition that it be initiated by another ministry.

SOURCES Amnesty and pardon. Tudorel Toader would be willing to put his approval on the decree, on the condition that it be initiated by another ministry.

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04 dec. • 1
The four dunces in charge of Romania's economic policy

The four dunces in charge of Romania’s economic policy

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04 dec. • 90
As far as fiscal policy and the economy are concerned, the PSD relies on four individuals : Darius Vâlcov, Eugen Teodorovici, Ion Ghizdeanu (head of the Prognosis Commission) and Ionuţ Mişa, head of the tax collection agency (ANAF). All four apply the directives given by the lider maximo, Liviu Dragnea. But insofar as Dragnea and […]
Decree 13 reloaded? PSD announces massive giveaways, same as in January 2017

Decree 13 reloaded? PSD announces massive giveaways, same as in January 2017

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29 nov.
Talk of a new emergency decree on amnesty and pardon is growing by the day. And the PSD’s conduct is a carbon copy of that back in January 2017, when Liviu Dragnea and his lot were pouring with promises of giveaways to buy the silence of the population. Today alone, prime minister Dancila made more […]
A Centenary-worthy gift for thugs: amnesty and land bondage

A Centenary-worthy gift for thugs: amnesty and land bondage

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28 nov. • 135
Teodorovici, the eternal public sector official, the friend of club owners, and the enemy of private enterprise, has inadvertently leaked PSD’s true thinking regarding members of the diaspora: considering them wretches who should be tortured and held in land bondage. PSD’s dream of tormenting those having escaped the country, sits along another of its most […]
The effects of Stanescu’s resignation. How does Dragnea manage to always be two steps ahead?

The effects of Stanescu’s resignation. How does Dragnea manage to always be two steps ahead?

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27 nov.
Paul Stanescu’s resignation from the Ministry of Development, a week after the party’s decision to replace him, has determined the winner in this new Iohannis- Dragnea clash. The PSD’s leader has, once again, won an important round. There was a slight chance for a different outcome, but it was contingent upon a lot of ifs. […]
EXCLUSIVE The real stakes of the government reshuffle: the adoption of the emergency decree on amnesty and pardon. A two-step plan

EXCLUSIVE The real stakes of the government reshuffle: the adoption of the emergency decree on amnesty and pardon. A two-step plan

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22 nov. • 1
Liviu Dragnea wants to remove Paul Stănescu from the Government in order to eliminate the last opponents to an emergency decree on amnesty and pardon. He also wants to simplify the procedure for the adoption of normative acts so as to eliminate the ministries’ opinions, and to promote amnesty and pardon as soon as possible […]
PSD's dangerous game: anti-Semitism as political weapon

PSD’s dangerous game: anti-Semitism as political weapon

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21 nov. • 1
On Tuesday evening, PSD clocked one of the most dangerous transgressions in its recent history, when Ilan Laufer publicly accused President Klaus Johannis of anti-Semitism. With the PSD logo behind him, with President Liviu Dragnea’s approval looming large, and benefitting from Israeli consultants’ advice, Ilan Laufer wanted to turn a simple political game into an […]
ALDE Group Leader in the European Parliament responds to Tariceanu: Dear Călin, let me hear your answer - will you support the full implementation of the recommendations of the Venice Commission? Do not pursue the illiberal path. Not in our name, and certainly not with our name!

ALDE Group Leader in the European Parliament responds to Tariceanu: Dear Călin, let me hear your answer – will you support the full implementation of the recommendations of the Venice Commission? Do not pursue the illiberal path. Not in our name, and certainly not with our name!

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21 nov. • 3
Why Klaus Iohannis rejected Laufer and Vasilescu, and kept Stanescu

Why Klaus Iohannis rejected Laufer and Vasilescu, and kept Stanescu

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21 nov.
The President rejected two nominations for the Dancila Government’s team, and refused two revocation requests from the same. Most likely, he did this in order to recover lost ground and to convey the idea that he has not really left the battlefield, especially after the unfortunate episode of Andronescu’s nomination to the Government. The gesture […]