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18.04.202515:09
🇪🇺🤝🇨🇳 EU pushes for rapprochement with China in order to "resist unilateral bullying" by Donald Trump's US
Even though the EU is locked in trade deal negotiations with the U.S, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has abandoned all hope of a satisfactory outcome and told FT:
The reason for that is because Trump's trade negotiators insist on the EU relaxing its digital market regulations, lower the VAT and some product standards.
In return for losing the trade partnership with the U.S, VDL is pursuing a rapprochement with China with the Chinese being quite enthusiastic about it and its not very hard to see why. China was the main target of Trump's tariffs which intended to move the manufacturing away from China and Asia in general, and bring it back to the U.S.
With tariffs on, Beijing is losing its biggest export market and now has to find alternatives and Brussels is more than happy to be that alternative. Both Beijing and Brussels believe them working together, would give more leverage against Donald Trump's America.
EU cooperation with China is not only hypocritical considering the Russo-Chinese alliance but also for the EU's moralist approach regarding human rights and once harsh criticisms of China's oppression of ethnic minorities in Tibet, Xinjiang, Guangxi and Hongkong, not to mention the dispute over Taiwan, cooperation with China is extremely dangerous for Europe's own manufacturing, the little it has left.
When China will start flooding the European market with its products, a lot of businesses will go bankrupt simply not being able to compete with Chinese counterparts due to the scale at which the Chinese manufacture goods. European businesses going global and expanding into China is out of the question, for one because they would not be able to compete except in a few rare domains like winery, spirits and because Beijing won't allow it.
The automobile industry will be hit the hardest and this will hurt a lot of countries including Romania, not to mention the fact that opening up to China will lead to what was happening in the U.S. where Chinese businesses and businessmen were buying up land and warehouses everywhere they went, in areas close to military bases to spy on the U.S. or in expensive areas where they could cash in by renting.
There is also the possibility that once the EU opens up fully to China to "resist bullying" coming from Donald Trump, Chinese fentanyl exports which were heading to the U.S. will be diverted to Europe instead leading to a continent-wide drug & overdose epidemic.
The European Commission is aware that China is hoping to destroy European manufacturing and has applied tariffs to EVs, plywood & a dozen other goods but these were applied last year, before Donald Trump started a trade war and the EU's blind hatred of Trump could lead it down the wrong path and ally with China just to spite the Americans who don't even care about them.
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Even though the EU is locked in trade deal negotiations with the U.S, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has abandoned all hope of a satisfactory outcome and told FT:
“It’s a turning point with the United States without any question,” she said, adding: “We will never go back any more to the status quo.”
The reason for that is because Trump's trade negotiators insist on the EU relaxing its digital market regulations, lower the VAT and some product standards.
In return for losing the trade partnership with the U.S, VDL is pursuing a rapprochement with China with the Chinese being quite enthusiastic about it and its not very hard to see why. China was the main target of Trump's tariffs which intended to move the manufacturing away from China and Asia in general, and bring it back to the U.S.
With tariffs on, Beijing is losing its biggest export market and now has to find alternatives and Brussels is more than happy to be that alternative. Both Beijing and Brussels believe them working together, would give more leverage against Donald Trump's America.
EU cooperation with China is not only hypocritical considering the Russo-Chinese alliance but also for the EU's moralist approach regarding human rights and once harsh criticisms of China's oppression of ethnic minorities in Tibet, Xinjiang, Guangxi and Hongkong, not to mention the dispute over Taiwan, cooperation with China is extremely dangerous for Europe's own manufacturing, the little it has left.
When China will start flooding the European market with its products, a lot of businesses will go bankrupt simply not being able to compete with Chinese counterparts due to the scale at which the Chinese manufacture goods. European businesses going global and expanding into China is out of the question, for one because they would not be able to compete except in a few rare domains like winery, spirits and because Beijing won't allow it.
The automobile industry will be hit the hardest and this will hurt a lot of countries including Romania, not to mention the fact that opening up to China will lead to what was happening in the U.S. where Chinese businesses and businessmen were buying up land and warehouses everywhere they went, in areas close to military bases to spy on the U.S. or in expensive areas where they could cash in by renting.
There is also the possibility that once the EU opens up fully to China to "resist bullying" coming from Donald Trump, Chinese fentanyl exports which were heading to the U.S. will be diverted to Europe instead leading to a continent-wide drug & overdose epidemic.
The European Commission is aware that China is hoping to destroy European manufacturing and has applied tariffs to EVs, plywood & a dozen other goods but these were applied last year, before Donald Trump started a trade war and the EU's blind hatred of Trump could lead it down the wrong path and ally with China just to spite the Americans who don't even care about them.
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17.04.202515:06
⬜️🗳⚡️ Elena Lasconi wins court battle against her rebellious party.
The courts declared her the legal and legitimate president of the Save Romania Union party and forbid the putschists from using USR's treasury to finance the campaign of Nicușor Dan.
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The courts declared her the legal and legitimate president of the Save Romania Union party and forbid the putschists from using USR's treasury to finance the campaign of Nicușor Dan.
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17.04.202514:57
🇷🇴❌🌐 In the span of a week Facebook deleted the account of conservative journalist, Mirel Curea, and TikTok deleted the account of Bobby D, a pro-Călin Georgescu influencer.
Both were critical of the decision to cancel the election, often calling it a ”coup d'etat”, they were also critical of the government in general, the online censorship & more.
It is unclear who ordered the deletion, it could have been the National Audiovisual Council (CNA), it could have been the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC), it could have been the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), no one knows for sure because nor Facebook nor Tiktok would say why they banned the two people, simply pointing out to alleged "violations" of the terms of service or community guidelines.
And this is by design. Romania under Marcel Ciolacu and Ilie Bolojan has instituted a worse regime of censorship than existed under Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Under Ceaușescu, the press was written, in the form of newspapers and until 1971, the communist regime had a bunch of censors who would receive the newspaper before it was sent for mass printing and, upon noticing something wrong with the edition, they would notify the the author to revise his work. Unlike today, the journalist back then could meet with the censor and talk with him and defend his intellectual work and sometimes, the censors would back down.
After 1971, the censorship offices were dismantled and the chief editors of the newspapers were tasked with censoring the writers below them. There was a similar system in place for literary works, theater etc, but instead of a special office, it was done by a commission inside the ministry of culture who would review the book before it was printed and notify the writer and tell him to rewrite or delete part of his intellectual property, and the writer could appeal and contest the censors.
And this is what is lacking today in the era of social media. The social media platforms are deleting posts and accounts usually on the request of government agencies like the CNA, BEC, ANCOM, but when these creators appeal the decision to have their accounts or posts reinstated, the social media companies never respond or if they do, it is always a no, because the CNA, or BEC or ANCOM have already declared that account/post illegal and reinstating it would mean Facebook or TikTok or whoever deleted breaks the law and they would be fined.
In other words, unlike in communism, today, influencers, regardless of politics, cannot appeal the decision of the government which censored them in a completely opaque manner. When the CNA, or BEC, or ANCOM decide to take down a social media post or the account of someone, they either self-report or receive a report from someone else. They call a meeting and the members of each agency then debate amongst each other if the post is illegal or not and if they decide its illegal, its a done deal and no one can appeal and have the decision voided and the post or account reinstated.
Again, this ”oversight” regarding the appeal function is by design. Authorities consider everything that happens in the online space to be illegal as it would be if it happened in real life, on the street. But the same authorities could not be bothered to give the same means to users of the online space to defend themselves from abuses by the authorities or social media companies as they can defend themselves from the attacks of a physical person in real life.
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Both were critical of the decision to cancel the election, often calling it a ”coup d'etat”, they were also critical of the government in general, the online censorship & more.
It is unclear who ordered the deletion, it could have been the National Audiovisual Council (CNA), it could have been the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC), it could have been the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), no one knows for sure because nor Facebook nor Tiktok would say why they banned the two people, simply pointing out to alleged "violations" of the terms of service or community guidelines.
And this is by design. Romania under Marcel Ciolacu and Ilie Bolojan has instituted a worse regime of censorship than existed under Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Under Ceaușescu, the press was written, in the form of newspapers and until 1971, the communist regime had a bunch of censors who would receive the newspaper before it was sent for mass printing and, upon noticing something wrong with the edition, they would notify the the author to revise his work. Unlike today, the journalist back then could meet with the censor and talk with him and defend his intellectual work and sometimes, the censors would back down.
After 1971, the censorship offices were dismantled and the chief editors of the newspapers were tasked with censoring the writers below them. There was a similar system in place for literary works, theater etc, but instead of a special office, it was done by a commission inside the ministry of culture who would review the book before it was printed and notify the writer and tell him to rewrite or delete part of his intellectual property, and the writer could appeal and contest the censors.
And this is what is lacking today in the era of social media. The social media platforms are deleting posts and accounts usually on the request of government agencies like the CNA, BEC, ANCOM, but when these creators appeal the decision to have their accounts or posts reinstated, the social media companies never respond or if they do, it is always a no, because the CNA, or BEC or ANCOM have already declared that account/post illegal and reinstating it would mean Facebook or TikTok or whoever deleted breaks the law and they would be fined.
In other words, unlike in communism, today, influencers, regardless of politics, cannot appeal the decision of the government which censored them in a completely opaque manner. When the CNA, or BEC, or ANCOM decide to take down a social media post or the account of someone, they either self-report or receive a report from someone else. They call a meeting and the members of each agency then debate amongst each other if the post is illegal or not and if they decide its illegal, its a done deal and no one can appeal and have the decision voided and the post or account reinstated.
Again, this ”oversight” regarding the appeal function is by design. Authorities consider everything that happens in the online space to be illegal as it would be if it happened in real life, on the street. But the same authorities could not be bothered to give the same means to users of the online space to defend themselves from abuses by the authorities or social media companies as they can defend themselves from the attacks of a physical person in real life.
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16.04.202518:12
⬜️🗳⚡️ Did the Save Romania Union (USR) rid itself of its president, Elena Lasconi, as part of a deal to become a part of the new government planned after the May 2025 elections?
USR's leadership did something unprecedented in Romanian politics: they rebelled against the person they voted months prior to lead them and decided to support someone else in the presidential campaign, breaking a number of laws but most importantly, breaking USR's own internal rules.
The consequences of this can lead to the judicial liquidation of the whole party. According to the Law 14/2003, art. 45 d) a political party can be dissolved by the a court ruling if the court concludes that the party pursues an objective different to the one laid out in its rules.
USR's president said after she was betrayed by her own colleagues that the decision was illegal and that is true, for USR to legally denounce Lasconi, they needed to call for a congress and vote someone else, although even that would have been futile as USR had signed all documents which outlined the party's support for Lasconi and once the presidential campaign begins one cannot back down and support someone else.
There is also the fact that the putschists in USR, Ionuț Moșteanu and Dominic Fritz, didn't even legally constitute the political bureau which voted to depose Lasconi and name Fritz in her place. According to USR's own rules, a 15 day notice must be given to all members ahead of the vote in the political bureau for the bureau to be legally constituted and the vote valid.
USR's usurping of Elena Lasconi and her replacement with Dominic Fritz marks another premiere in Romanian politics: USR is the first Romanian political party unofficially led by a non-Romanian citizen. Dominic Fritz has been mayor of Timișoara since 2020, having won reelection in 2024. Only after winning reelection he finally applied for Romanian citizenship last year but he hasn't received it yet. Although it might seem illegal for a non-Romanian citizen to lead a political party, Fritz isn't the legal president of USR and even if he was, the Law 14/2003 which regulates the creation and activity of political parties allows EU citizens like Fritz to lead political parties in Romania, although Fritz is not allowed to run for Parliament and president.
So this begs the question, why would USR risk being dissolved by a court order to support Nicușor Dan, someone who they kicked out of USR back in 2017? Well maybe because USR's leaders have gotten tired of being in the opposition and Nicușor Dan said he would bring them into a new government with Ilie Bolojan as premier.
Dan welcomed USR's decision to abandon Lasconi and support him even though USR was blocked by the Central Electoral Bureau and the Permanent Electoral Authority from donating money to his campaign. However, this may have permanently destroyed USR's image as a "democratic" party which operates lawfully and may cost it a significant amount of voters in the long term, that is if USR doesn't end up being judicially dissolved by courts.
Lasconi has promised, with the help of a couple loyal USR members, to fight Ionuț Moșteanu and Dominic Fritz and she will be suing them in civil courts and at the constitutional courts, because Moșteanu and Fritz cut her off from the party's treasury which, as president, she is legally allowed to access.
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USR's leadership did something unprecedented in Romanian politics: they rebelled against the person they voted months prior to lead them and decided to support someone else in the presidential campaign, breaking a number of laws but most importantly, breaking USR's own internal rules.
The consequences of this can lead to the judicial liquidation of the whole party. According to the Law 14/2003, art. 45 d) a political party can be dissolved by the a court ruling if the court concludes that the party pursues an objective different to the one laid out in its rules.
USR's president said after she was betrayed by her own colleagues that the decision was illegal and that is true, for USR to legally denounce Lasconi, they needed to call for a congress and vote someone else, although even that would have been futile as USR had signed all documents which outlined the party's support for Lasconi and once the presidential campaign begins one cannot back down and support someone else.
There is also the fact that the putschists in USR, Ionuț Moșteanu and Dominic Fritz, didn't even legally constitute the political bureau which voted to depose Lasconi and name Fritz in her place. According to USR's own rules, a 15 day notice must be given to all members ahead of the vote in the political bureau for the bureau to be legally constituted and the vote valid.
USR's usurping of Elena Lasconi and her replacement with Dominic Fritz marks another premiere in Romanian politics: USR is the first Romanian political party unofficially led by a non-Romanian citizen. Dominic Fritz has been mayor of Timișoara since 2020, having won reelection in 2024. Only after winning reelection he finally applied for Romanian citizenship last year but he hasn't received it yet. Although it might seem illegal for a non-Romanian citizen to lead a political party, Fritz isn't the legal president of USR and even if he was, the Law 14/2003 which regulates the creation and activity of political parties allows EU citizens like Fritz to lead political parties in Romania, although Fritz is not allowed to run for Parliament and president.
So this begs the question, why would USR risk being dissolved by a court order to support Nicușor Dan, someone who they kicked out of USR back in 2017? Well maybe because USR's leaders have gotten tired of being in the opposition and Nicușor Dan said he would bring them into a new government with Ilie Bolojan as premier.
Dan welcomed USR's decision to abandon Lasconi and support him even though USR was blocked by the Central Electoral Bureau and the Permanent Electoral Authority from donating money to his campaign. However, this may have permanently destroyed USR's image as a "democratic" party which operates lawfully and may cost it a significant amount of voters in the long term, that is if USR doesn't end up being judicially dissolved by courts.
Lasconi has promised, with the help of a couple loyal USR members, to fight Ionuț Moșteanu and Dominic Fritz and she will be suing them in civil courts and at the constitutional courts, because Moșteanu and Fritz cut her off from the party's treasury which, as president, she is legally allowed to access.
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16.04.202515:51
🌹🤡🇺🇸 Premier Marcel Ciolacu proudly announces that "two American giants" are coming to invest in Romania
Only to find out that the "giants" and "investments" are coming from the fastfood restaurant chain, Wendy's, who will be opening up a chain of restaurants in Romania and Solero Technologies, owned by Atar Capital, is buying a solenoid factory in Sibiu, which makes electromagnets used in engines, gearboxes and in general, in automobile manufacturing.
Ciolacu even tried to frame these developments as the "fruits" of his meeting yesterday with House Democracy Partnership delegation, even though Wendy's announced nearly a month ago that it was coming to Romania meanwhile the purchase by Solero Technologies of the solenoid factory was announced well over a year ago.
As usual, Marcel Ciolacu lies without shame.
By the way, Ciolacu still has not commented once on the news that another American investor, the kind of investors he likes a lot, is downsizing its operations in Romania by closing down the Arad railcar factory citing high energy costs. He didn't even lift a finger to try and save the factory and its 700 employees. But hey, at least Wendy's is coming to sell burgers, so we will be fine.
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Only to find out that the "giants" and "investments" are coming from the fastfood restaurant chain, Wendy's, who will be opening up a chain of restaurants in Romania and Solero Technologies, owned by Atar Capital, is buying a solenoid factory in Sibiu, which makes electromagnets used in engines, gearboxes and in general, in automobile manufacturing.
Ciolacu even tried to frame these developments as the "fruits" of his meeting yesterday with House Democracy Partnership delegation, even though Wendy's announced nearly a month ago that it was coming to Romania meanwhile the purchase by Solero Technologies of the solenoid factory was announced well over a year ago.
As usual, Marcel Ciolacu lies without shame.
By the way, Ciolacu still has not commented once on the news that another American investor, the kind of investors he likes a lot, is downsizing its operations in Romania by closing down the Arad railcar factory citing high energy costs. He didn't even lift a finger to try and save the factory and its 700 employees. But hey, at least Wendy's is coming to sell burgers, so we will be fine.
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16.04.202512:10
🟨💔⚡️ Following the departure of Claudiu Târziu, AUR has lost two more MPs and another MEP!
MPs George ”Gigi” Becali from Bucharest and vicepresident of AUR, Robert Alecu from Bacău, resigned from yesterday and will continue to activate in Parliament as independents.
Today, the MEP, Șerban-Dimitrie Sturdza resigned, leaving AUR with just 4 MEPs out of the 6 that were elected last year.
The reasons behind Gigi Becali's departure were detailed in a previous post, so we won't get into why he left, but the departures of Robert Alecu and Șerban Sturdza are more interesting.
Alecu cited AUR straying away from its original goals as the reason for his departure. The goals which made Alecu entered politics were: family, faith, freedom and nation. Alecu complained that the party degraded into a mess, with decisions taken in a ”secret” and ”unpredictable manner” which led the party's leadership to follow personal interests and pursue various political dealings over the national interest.
Șerban Sturdza hasn't cited a motive for his departure but we can presume it is similar to the one cited by Robert Alecu. We can expect Sturdza and Alecu to join Claudiu Târziu in a new conservative political party that is in the works started by another ex-AUR member, Antonio Andrușceac.
AUR is ”surging” in the polls (actually stuck at 30-35% for well over two months) but proeminent members are leaving the party because George Simion has forbade anyone from ever criticising him and is creating a cult of personality in the party.
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MPs George ”Gigi” Becali from Bucharest and vicepresident of AUR, Robert Alecu from Bacău, resigned from yesterday and will continue to activate in Parliament as independents.
Today, the MEP, Șerban-Dimitrie Sturdza resigned, leaving AUR with just 4 MEPs out of the 6 that were elected last year.
The reasons behind Gigi Becali's departure were detailed in a previous post, so we won't get into why he left, but the departures of Robert Alecu and Șerban Sturdza are more interesting.
Alecu cited AUR straying away from its original goals as the reason for his departure. The goals which made Alecu entered politics were: family, faith, freedom and nation. Alecu complained that the party degraded into a mess, with decisions taken in a ”secret” and ”unpredictable manner” which led the party's leadership to follow personal interests and pursue various political dealings over the national interest.
Șerban Sturdza hasn't cited a motive for his departure but we can presume it is similar to the one cited by Robert Alecu. We can expect Sturdza and Alecu to join Claudiu Târziu in a new conservative political party that is in the works started by another ex-AUR member, Antonio Andrușceac.
AUR is ”surging” in the polls (actually stuck at 30-35% for well over two months) but proeminent members are leaving the party because George Simion has forbade anyone from ever criticising him and is creating a cult of personality in the party.
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16.04.202511:27
🇷🇴⚠️📈 #URGENT | Preliminary data suggests that Romania's budget deficit calculated using the European System of Accounts (ESA) used by the European Commission, puts the deficit at 9.28% of the GDP, nearly 0.7% higher than the 8.6% figure reported by the Romanian government.
The deficit calculated with the ESA is a bit more comprehensive as it includes some financial obligations assumed by the government which don't make it into the national budget.
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The deficit calculated with the ESA is a bit more comprehensive as it includes some financial obligations assumed by the government which don't make it into the national budget.
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16.04.202509:44
🇪🇺❌🇺🇸 — 🇬🇧📰 Financial Times | EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears
📝: Romanian officials still continue to insist that they can be friends with the US and the EU at the same time even though Brussels is taking every possible action to cut ties with Washington.
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European Commission officials heading to IMF and World Bank spring meetings advised to travel with basic devices
The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage, a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China.
Commissioners and senior officials travelling to the IMF and World Bank spring meetings next week have been given the new guidance, according to four people familiar with the situation.
They said the measures replicate those used on trips to Ukraine and China, where standard IT kit cannot be brought into the countries for fear of Russian or Chinese surveillance.
“They are worried about the US getting into the commission systems,” said one official.
The treatment of the US as a potential security risk highlights how relations have deteriorated since the return of Donald Trump as US president in January.
“The transatlantic alliance is over,” said a fifth EU official.
📝: Romanian officials still continue to insist that they can be friends with the US and the EU at the same time even though Brussels is taking every possible action to cut ties with Washington.
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16.04.202509:35
🇺🇸❌🇲🇩 The U.S. State Department cancelled a 14.6 million USD grant meant for Moldovan news outlets after new cost-cutting measures taken by the new secretary of state, Marco Rubio.
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15.04.202520:39
🇺🇸🇺🇸🤝🇷🇴 News site, InPolitics, launches an interesting theory uncovering the "real story" of the American delegation that came to Bucharest!
In short, InPolitics points out that the delegation doesn't really represent the U.S. Congress as a whole, who by the way, is completely different from the U.S. president and they never always agreed on everything, with Donald Trump having the "honor" of having caused the longest government shutdown in American history back in 2018-2019, which lasted for 35 days, due to a split Congress over building a wall on the U.S — Mexico border.
The delegation represented the House Democracy Partnership (HDP), which is a commission of the House of Representatives created back in 2005 who " advances U.S. economic and security interests by fostering stable, effective governance in key regions worldwide".
It collaborates with 15 Parliaments worldwide, including the Parliaments of Ukraine and Moldova, but not Romania. The HDP delegation was present a few days ago in Brussels but moved on towards Moldova, which they visited yesterday.
So why visit Romania when the Romanian Parliament was not partnered with the HDP? Well, InPolitics says the HDP visited Bucharest at the behest of the U.S. embassy in Romania, still lead by Kathleen Kavalec, a California Democrat, a Biden-appointee and never-Trumper, and also with the involvement of the Romanian ambassador in the U.S, Andrei Muraru.
The Americans hadn't planned to come to Bucharest but they made a stop on their way back home from Moldova. There is also the fact, as InPolitics says, that commissions in the U.S. Congress don't have the same power as commissions in European Parliaments. Commissions are low-ranking, with the higher powers being held by the committees (Joint Committees) which reunite both houses, The House of Representatives and the Senate.
So, now that we've established that the HDP is a low-ranking commission which at best, only speaks for the U.S. House of Representatives, not the Senate and certainly not the Trump administration, what sort of power do their promises have? Not much really.
Let's remember that the news was announced by none other than Cristian Diaconescu, a pathological liar, who already made it clear he despises the Trump administration months ago, when he went on TV and said that Trump was selling Romania back to Russia claiming he had "secret knowledge" and ended up being quoted by major Western newspapers.
Diaconescu presented the arrival of this delegation as a "game-changer" and a "legitimacy boost" but this is also how the foreign minister, Emil Hurezeanu, tried to present his hallway "talks" with the special envoy, Richard Grenell, and the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, which never resulted in Washington warming up to Bucharest.
Thus we conclude, Romania continues to be isolated from Washington despite the pictures taken with the American congressmen.
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In short, InPolitics points out that the delegation doesn't really represent the U.S. Congress as a whole, who by the way, is completely different from the U.S. president and they never always agreed on everything, with Donald Trump having the "honor" of having caused the longest government shutdown in American history back in 2018-2019, which lasted for 35 days, due to a split Congress over building a wall on the U.S — Mexico border.
The delegation represented the House Democracy Partnership (HDP), which is a commission of the House of Representatives created back in 2005 who " advances U.S. economic and security interests by fostering stable, effective governance in key regions worldwide".
It collaborates with 15 Parliaments worldwide, including the Parliaments of Ukraine and Moldova, but not Romania. The HDP delegation was present a few days ago in Brussels but moved on towards Moldova, which they visited yesterday.
So why visit Romania when the Romanian Parliament was not partnered with the HDP? Well, InPolitics says the HDP visited Bucharest at the behest of the U.S. embassy in Romania, still lead by Kathleen Kavalec, a California Democrat, a Biden-appointee and never-Trumper, and also with the involvement of the Romanian ambassador in the U.S, Andrei Muraru.
The Americans hadn't planned to come to Bucharest but they made a stop on their way back home from Moldova. There is also the fact, as InPolitics says, that commissions in the U.S. Congress don't have the same power as commissions in European Parliaments. Commissions are low-ranking, with the higher powers being held by the committees (Joint Committees) which reunite both houses, The House of Representatives and the Senate.
So, now that we've established that the HDP is a low-ranking commission which at best, only speaks for the U.S. House of Representatives, not the Senate and certainly not the Trump administration, what sort of power do their promises have? Not much really.
Let's remember that the news was announced by none other than Cristian Diaconescu, a pathological liar, who already made it clear he despises the Trump administration months ago, when he went on TV and said that Trump was selling Romania back to Russia claiming he had "secret knowledge" and ended up being quoted by major Western newspapers.
Diaconescu presented the arrival of this delegation as a "game-changer" and a "legitimacy boost" but this is also how the foreign minister, Emil Hurezeanu, tried to present his hallway "talks" with the special envoy, Richard Grenell, and the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, which never resulted in Washington warming up to Bucharest.
Thus we conclude, Romania continues to be isolated from Washington despite the pictures taken with the American congressmen.
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15.04.202519:42
🇺🇸🤝🇫🇷🇭🇺 Why did Donald Trump mention Marine Le Pen by name when she was barred from running for office but not Călin Georgescu?
When the elections were cancelled in December last year and when Călin Georgescu was barred from office, he received messages of support from a lot of politicians, Italian, Spanish, French, the prime-minister of Slovakia and the Serbian separatist leader of Bosnia. All of them have in common a hostility to the eurofederalist project but, perhaps, the most ardent opponent of the eurofederalist project, Viktor Orban and his party, Fidesz, have been silent in supporting Călin Georgescu.
A Călin Georgescu presidency could have been beneficial to Orban as it meant having another ally in his fight against Brussels but yet, Orban took another path, embracing Romania's pro-EU leadership, who, oddly enough, welcomed him and his advances.
Orban is friendly with Marcel Ciolacu, Ciolacu who was more than happy to let Orban buy Romanian natural gas, import more gas from Russia through Romanian pipelines (even though Romanian companies are not allowed to do that), allowed Orban to export Russian gas through Romania to Transnistria even though it was in Bucharest's interests to destroy the separatist republic and letting it freeze to death would have been a preferable alternative than open war.
Ciolacu allowed Orban to buy part of the pipeline network by greenlighting the purchase of E.ON by the Hungarian statw-owned MVM Group (the purchase was delayed to the summer of 2025, Romania can still block it but it hasn't yet) and defended Orban from the attacks of the liberal Romanian press when he didn't need to.
Clearly, Ciolacu is the stupid one here, never realising he's being used by Orban to keep Romania weak while Hungary's power grows. Fidesz's proxy in Romania, The Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania or UDMR for short, enthusiastically supported the PSD-PNL coalition and they got rewarded when they received the ministry of finances which is a part of the National Supreme Defense Council (CSAT), a secretive organ which has access to all classified documents collected by Romania's intel agencies.
Since December, UDMR through its finance minister, Tánczos Barna, had access to sensible information which it potentially could have relayed back to Budapest and this simply because of the shortsightedness and general incompetence of the PSD-PNL coalition, who refused to take responsibility for the financial disaster they've created and chose to pass over the ministry of finances to someone else.
Viktor Orban is fully aware of how incompetent Romanian leaders are and that's why he will never publicly support Călin Georgescu, George Simion, or any other sovereignist politician in Romania. Supporting one means potentially having to deal with a smart person for once in Bucharest which would ruin Orban's political games in Transylvania.
To answer the question at the beginning, it wouldn't be too far fetched to believe that Orban could have used his strong connections in the Republican Party to make sure the Republican Party and the Trump Administration as a whole keep quiet on Romania and do nothing to sanction the democratic backsliding of the PSD-PNL coalition. After all, Orban has been with Trump for far longer than any Romanian politician and he has primacy over a lot of other European politicians.
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When the elections were cancelled in December last year and when Călin Georgescu was barred from office, he received messages of support from a lot of politicians, Italian, Spanish, French, the prime-minister of Slovakia and the Serbian separatist leader of Bosnia. All of them have in common a hostility to the eurofederalist project but, perhaps, the most ardent opponent of the eurofederalist project, Viktor Orban and his party, Fidesz, have been silent in supporting Călin Georgescu.
A Călin Georgescu presidency could have been beneficial to Orban as it meant having another ally in his fight against Brussels but yet, Orban took another path, embracing Romania's pro-EU leadership, who, oddly enough, welcomed him and his advances.
Orban is friendly with Marcel Ciolacu, Ciolacu who was more than happy to let Orban buy Romanian natural gas, import more gas from Russia through Romanian pipelines (even though Romanian companies are not allowed to do that), allowed Orban to export Russian gas through Romania to Transnistria even though it was in Bucharest's interests to destroy the separatist republic and letting it freeze to death would have been a preferable alternative than open war.
Ciolacu allowed Orban to buy part of the pipeline network by greenlighting the purchase of E.ON by the Hungarian statw-owned MVM Group (the purchase was delayed to the summer of 2025, Romania can still block it but it hasn't yet) and defended Orban from the attacks of the liberal Romanian press when he didn't need to.
Clearly, Ciolacu is the stupid one here, never realising he's being used by Orban to keep Romania weak while Hungary's power grows. Fidesz's proxy in Romania, The Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania or UDMR for short, enthusiastically supported the PSD-PNL coalition and they got rewarded when they received the ministry of finances which is a part of the National Supreme Defense Council (CSAT), a secretive organ which has access to all classified documents collected by Romania's intel agencies.
Since December, UDMR through its finance minister, Tánczos Barna, had access to sensible information which it potentially could have relayed back to Budapest and this simply because of the shortsightedness and general incompetence of the PSD-PNL coalition, who refused to take responsibility for the financial disaster they've created and chose to pass over the ministry of finances to someone else.
Viktor Orban is fully aware of how incompetent Romanian leaders are and that's why he will never publicly support Călin Georgescu, George Simion, or any other sovereignist politician in Romania. Supporting one means potentially having to deal with a smart person for once in Bucharest which would ruin Orban's political games in Transylvania.
To answer the question at the beginning, it wouldn't be too far fetched to believe that Orban could have used his strong connections in the Republican Party to make sure the Republican Party and the Trump Administration as a whole keep quiet on Romania and do nothing to sanction the democratic backsliding of the PSD-PNL coalition. After all, Orban has been with Trump for far longer than any Romanian politician and he has primacy over a lot of other European politicians.
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15.04.202518:53
🇺🇸🤝❓🟨 The Republican congressmen in delegation to Bucharest met with AUR president, George Simion.
While he claims to have told them about the ”crime against democracy” committed by the PSD-PNL-UDMR coalition last year, since the Republican congressmen didn't dissent and make separate statements contrary to the official declaration we can conclude that Simion either failed to relay his message or that simply the Americans are not interested anymore in who runs Romania or by which means they earned that power.
Earlier today, British leftist newspaper, UnHerd, published a long article about U.S. Vice-President, James David Vance, which said:
If the U.S. isn't interested in having Europe as a "security vassal" then there's no reason for the U.S. to be interested to meddle in the internal affairs of European countries, not just Romania, or at least this is what the approach of the new Trump administration seems to be.
Deeper in the article Vance says:
So, by not condemning Romania again, Vance's shift in tone and speech is in accordance with the new policy of Washington, they want to make the EU less dependent on the U.S. but criticising European countries for not aligning to American standards would be hypocritical.
The irony is not lost us. With the introduction of tariffs, the U.S. is inadvertently pushing Europe for greater independence from Washington but the intention was the opposite: Trump wanted to increase American exports to Europe which would achieve the opposite of what the Americans say in public that they want.
According to the Washington Post, if a certain country wants U.S. tariffs lifted, they must:
⬛️ increase in purchases of American gas,
⬛️ reduction of duties on American goods,
⬛️ tax cuts for American tech giants,
⬛️ stopping the flow of Chinese goods through third countries.
If the EU was to deregulate and would buy more from the American market, we can rest assured, that the U.S. will never talk about the cancelling of the 2024 presidential elections, ever again.
*Pictured are AUR president, George Simion with Republican (Florida) Representative, Anna-Paulina Luna, and Republican (Tennessee) Representative Andy Ogles.
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While he claims to have told them about the ”crime against democracy” committed by the PSD-PNL-UDMR coalition last year, since the Republican congressmen didn't dissent and make separate statements contrary to the official declaration we can conclude that Simion either failed to relay his message or that simply the Americans are not interested anymore in who runs Romania or by which means they earned that power.
Earlier today, British leftist newspaper, UnHerd, published a long article about U.S. Vice-President, James David Vance, which said:
"It’s not good for Europe to be the permanent security vassal of the United States.” So says JD Vance during a phone conversation with UnHerd on Monday (...)"
If the U.S. isn't interested in having Europe as a "security vassal" then there's no reason for the U.S. to be interested to meddle in the internal affairs of European countries, not just Romania, or at least this is what the approach of the new Trump administration seems to be.
Deeper in the article Vance says:
"[Vance]’s message to the Continent, he says, is the same one delivered by Charles de Gaulle at the height of the Cold War, when the French president insisted on a healthy dose of independence from Washington. De Gaulle “loved the United States of America, but [he] recognised what I certainly recognise, that it’s not in Europe’s interest, and it’s not in America’s interest, for Europe to be a permanent security vassal of the United States”.
So, by not condemning Romania again, Vance's shift in tone and speech is in accordance with the new policy of Washington, they want to make the EU less dependent on the U.S. but criticising European countries for not aligning to American standards would be hypocritical.
The irony is not lost us. With the introduction of tariffs, the U.S. is inadvertently pushing Europe for greater independence from Washington but the intention was the opposite: Trump wanted to increase American exports to Europe which would achieve the opposite of what the Americans say in public that they want.
According to the Washington Post, if a certain country wants U.S. tariffs lifted, they must:
⬛️ increase in purchases of American gas,
⬛️ reduction of duties on American goods,
⬛️ tax cuts for American tech giants,
⬛️ stopping the flow of Chinese goods through third countries.
If the EU was to deregulate and would buy more from the American market, we can rest assured, that the U.S. will never talk about the cancelling of the 2024 presidential elections, ever again.
*Pictured are AUR president, George Simion with Republican (Florida) Representative, Anna-Paulina Luna, and Republican (Tennessee) Representative Andy Ogles.
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15.04.202515:36
🇷🇴😨🇷🇺 The Chief of the General Staff, Maj-Gen. Vlad Gheorghiță, said in his first major interview since February 2024, that the threat posed by Russia to Romania ”is bigger now than in the last 1-3 years”.
Maj-Gen. Gheorghiță says that although peace in Ukraine is ”ideal” he doesn't believe Russia wants peace and it is "buying time" with these negotiations. The Major-General is also worried that if indeed peace is achieved, Russia will use it to rearm and "test" NATO unity in 4-5 years time.
The Chief of the General Staff says that Russia hasn't given up on the idea of reestablishing the old spheres of influence.
A few days ago, a story about a team of French military cartographers coming to Romania to update French maps on the local topography, was interpreted as "war preparations". The French came to study the terrain of the Focșani Gate, a historic headache for Romanian military planners and anyone else who had the badluck of having to defend it.
The Focșani Gate is an area of land made up of mostly plains, situated between the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains and the Danube river, with no significant natural or artificial barrier for an invading army to overcome. The area is perfect for an armoured spearhead due to the flat terrain.
The French team came to the region to prepare maps as a backup in case satellites were to fail and GPS localization was lost.
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Maj-Gen. Gheorghiță says that although peace in Ukraine is ”ideal” he doesn't believe Russia wants peace and it is "buying time" with these negotiations. The Major-General is also worried that if indeed peace is achieved, Russia will use it to rearm and "test" NATO unity in 4-5 years time.
The Chief of the General Staff says that Russia hasn't given up on the idea of reestablishing the old spheres of influence.
A few days ago, a story about a team of French military cartographers coming to Romania to update French maps on the local topography, was interpreted as "war preparations". The French came to study the terrain of the Focșani Gate, a historic headache for Romanian military planners and anyone else who had the badluck of having to defend it.
The Focșani Gate is an area of land made up of mostly plains, situated between the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains and the Danube river, with no significant natural or artificial barrier for an invading army to overcome. The area is perfect for an armoured spearhead due to the flat terrain.
The French team came to the region to prepare maps as a backup in case satellites were to fail and GPS localization was lost.
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15.04.202514:54
🇷🇴🗳⚡️ The National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS) says that Crin Antonescu cannot be considered an ”informant” of the Securitate because he snitched on a colleague once!
The CNSAS upon researching the archives of the Securitate released a document clearing Crin Antonescu of ”any” suspicions that he may have collaborated with the communist secret police.
The CNSAS being the only body with authority to declare someone an informant or outright agent of the Securitate, which may impact the political career of someone in significant ways upon receiving the label of ”informant” or ”agent”, emitted this document clearing Antonescu despite having discovered a document from 1988 in which Crin Antonescu, a history teacher at the time, informed the Securitate about a colleague of his who then had a ”meeting” with Securitate officers.
The CNSAS concludes that because Crin Antonescu snitched on someone one time he cannot be considered an ”informant” according to the criteria required by law to be considered an informant.
The CNSAS also RESTRICTED the public access to the informative note which Antonescu himself signed back in 1988 and only Crin Antonescu can make it public. This has never happened before in the history of CNSAS, whos sole purpose was to declassify the Securitate archives and reveal who collaborated who did not and they are now hiding who did what.
The CNSAS also hid Crin Antonescu's statements to the Securitate so we also don't know why he snitched on that person, another premiere for the CNSAS.
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The CNSAS upon researching the archives of the Securitate released a document clearing Crin Antonescu of ”any” suspicions that he may have collaborated with the communist secret police.
The CNSAS being the only body with authority to declare someone an informant or outright agent of the Securitate, which may impact the political career of someone in significant ways upon receiving the label of ”informant” or ”agent”, emitted this document clearing Antonescu despite having discovered a document from 1988 in which Crin Antonescu, a history teacher at the time, informed the Securitate about a colleague of his who then had a ”meeting” with Securitate officers.
The CNSAS concludes that because Crin Antonescu snitched on someone one time he cannot be considered an ”informant” according to the criteria required by law to be considered an informant.
The CNSAS also RESTRICTED the public access to the informative note which Antonescu himself signed back in 1988 and only Crin Antonescu can make it public. This has never happened before in the history of CNSAS, whos sole purpose was to declassify the Securitate archives and reveal who collaborated who did not and they are now hiding who did what.
The CNSAS also hid Crin Antonescu's statements to the Securitate so we also don't know why he snitched on that person, another premiere for the CNSAS.
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15.04.202512:24
🇺🇸🇺🇸🤝🇷🇴 The American delegation accepted the explanations offered by acting-president, Ilie Bolojan, regarding the events which led to the cancelling of the 2024 presidential elections!
No condemnation was issued by bipartisan delegation.
The American congressmen gave assurances that the United States will not withdraw any troops it currently has stationed in Romania, it expressed support for Romania's accession into the Visa Waiver program and expressed "general optimism" regarding Romanian-American relations.
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No condemnation was issued by bipartisan delegation.
The American congressmen gave assurances that the United States will not withdraw any troops it currently has stationed in Romania, it expressed support for Romania's accession into the Visa Waiver program and expressed "general optimism" regarding Romanian-American relations.
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🇪🇺❌🇺🇸🇨🇳❗️ — President of the European Central Bank, Lagarde:
The European Union wants to abandon the American credit cards Visa and Mastercard, as well PayPal and China's Alipay
01.04.202519:34
🇷🇴❌🌐 The deputy president of the CNA, Valentin Jucan, says that freedom of speech is not available to everyone in Romania!
Speaking to the state news agency, AGERPRES, Jucan, said about the censorship of well-known journalist, Marius Tucă, who was censored on YouTube because he referred to the cancellation of the 2024 presidential elections as a "coup d'etat", Jucan told AGERPRES:
Jucan would add that if Tucă had rephrased his statements to pass them as his opinions, the CNA may not have deleted his 3 minute TikTok and YouTube clip.
🔗 https://agerpres.ro/cultura-media/2025/03/31/video-jucan-cna-despre-eliminarea-clipului-video-al-lui-marius-tuca-discutam-de-lege-despre-deontolo--1436073
Speaking to the state news agency, AGERPRES, Jucan, said about the censorship of well-known journalist, Marius Tucă, who was censored on YouTube because he referred to the cancellation of the 2024 presidential elections as a "coup d'etat", Jucan told AGERPRES:
"Politicians can say whatever they want. We are talking about the law, about deontology, about the European Convention on Human Rights, and about the duties Mr. Tucă has as a journalist. If Mr. Tucă was working at car workshop somewhere in Dristor and made a video in which he said ”these guys made a coup”, it would have been different. But as long as the journalist, not the car mechanic, the journalist, Marius Tucă, makes this statement, a statement which can be factchecked (...) the statement is false because the Central Electoral Bureau (...) made a decision, later validated by the Constitutional Court, which could not have been a coup because the state cannot coup itself".
Jucan would add that if Tucă had rephrased his statements to pass them as his opinions, the CNA may not have deleted his 3 minute TikTok and YouTube clip.
🔗 https://agerpres.ro/cultura-media/2025/03/31/video-jucan-cna-despre-eliminarea-clipului-video-al-lui-marius-tuca-discutam-de-lege-despre-deontolo--1436073
29.03.202510:29
🇷🇴🚨⚡️ Results of the National Supreme Defense Council (CSAT) meeting:
🔶 Romania continues to unconditionally support Ukraine, no matter what happens
🔶 Romania continues to support Moldova in her EU accession talks
🔶 The Romanian Navy will receive new multipurpose corvettes
🔶 Deepening the partnership with the United States
🔶 Support for more NATO-allied troop deployments in Romania
🔶 Romania will increase its defense spending to 3.5% over the coming years (!!) but in a way that does not exacerbate the current budget deficit
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🔶 Romania continues to unconditionally support Ukraine, no matter what happens
🔶 Romania continues to support Moldova in her EU accession talks
🔶 The Romanian Navy will receive new multipurpose corvettes
🔶 Deepening the partnership with the United States
🔶 Support for more NATO-allied troop deployments in Romania
🔶 Romania will increase its defense spending to 3.5% over the coming years (!!) but in a way that does not exacerbate the current budget deficit
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