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Everything to secure her power. She introduced a double exam for the 8th grade by law – the national evaluation and high school admission – as requested by the president who appointed her (Romanian President Klaus Iohannis). She indefinitely postponed the „threat” of disturbing teachers in an election year with the promised new high school […]

The undeclared strike by Tarom pilots ended on Tuesday after a set of salary increases was agreed upon with the company’s management, according to union leader Narcis Pasca, speaking to G4Media. The company also announced the resumption of flights in a statement. What did the pilots gain after Monday’s strike, which halted several flights? Following […]

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu (Prime Minister of Romania) announced at the beginning of the government meeting that a government decision would be adopted to validate the election calendar, following the agreement within the governing coalition. Thus, the presidential elections will be held on November 24 for the first round and on December 8 for the […]

„Cel mai modern aeroport din Europa” va fi polonez? Asta a declarat guvernul polonez miercuri, 26 iunie, care a precizat că, la finalizarea acestui mastodont aerian, aeroportul ar trebui să permită unui număr de 34 de milioane de călători pe an să viziteze Carpații, Cracovia, Varșovia și Gdansk, scrie Le Figaro. Dar va trebui să […]

No one knows at this moment whether the state blackmail practiced by Klaus Iohannis with NATO leaders has yielded results or not. The President of Romania announced on Thursday that he informed the Alliance about his withdrawal from the race for the NATO leadership position at the end of last week. It is unclear whether […]

President Klaus Iohannis has been left without any supporters in the race for the NATO leadership after Hungary and Slovakia announced their support for Mark Rutte (the former Prime Minister of the Netherlands). However, two notable aspects remain of the president’s candidacy. The first is already known: the situational, hardly honorable alliance with Viktor Orban. […]

In 1989, I participated, as the letter C, in a choreographed display spelling out „Ceaușescu” at a stadium rally in Romania, celebrating the then-dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu. I wanted to resist, to boo, to whistle, but I couldn’t. Ideology turned into state policy meant punishment. Similarly, Coldplay inviting Babasha, a controversial Romanian singer known for performing […]

„I will be the future president of Romania.” This is what Sebastian Burduja (a young Romanian politician) has been telling his classmates in the US since 15 years ago. Some raised their eyebrows. They saw the strange spark in his fixed gaze but didn’t quite understand what the young Romanian student was basing his confident […]

Special pensions, early retirement at the peak of one’s career, and the conduct of former military institution heads post-retirement have become hot topics following recent events. The retirement at just 48 years old of SRI Deputy Director Cristian Bizadea, along with the cases of former SRI heads Florian Coldea and Dumitru Dumbravă, raises legitimate questions […]

Former Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) Chief Florian Coldea has been placed under judicial control with a bail set at 500,000 lei after being questioned by DNA prosecutors for 15 hours. He, along with reserve General Dumitru Dumbravă and lawyer Doru Trăilă, faces charges of influence peddling and money laundering. The questioning of Coldea began at […]

Since February 24, 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, there have been expectations of a hostile response from Russian society. Many have harbored hopes for this, yet the question remains after almost 1000 days of conflict: Why haven’t the Russians revolted? Florin Anghel is a university professor at the Faculty of History and Political Science at […]

Prosecutors from the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the District 1 Court indicted Clotilde Armand (USR), the mayor of District 1, on Thursday, for the offense of using her position to favor certain individuals. Clotilde Armand filed her candidacy for a new term as mayor of District 1 on Thursday. „The evidence collected in the case […]

Dan Voiculescu, the founder of the Antena media networks, has forcefully returned to the political playground he left after being sentenced to ten years in prison in August 2014 for the fraudulent privatization of the Food Research Institute, of which he actually served almost three years. The candidate supported by Voiculescu for the mayor of […]