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Romanian liberal government toppled by no-confidence vote

The Editorial Board October 8, 2021

Romania – The move had been expected since the reformist party USR-PLUS (Uniunea Salvați România) withdrew its ministers from Florin Cîțu’s liberal government on 3 September. It came after Cîțu dismissed Justice Minister Stelian Ion (USR-PLUS) without first consulting his partners. Cîțu…

Politics

Romania on the brink of political violence

Modeste Schwartz May 12, 2020

Romania – Since Klaus Iohannis’s surprisingly fast rise to power in 2014, his detractors have regularly used the “Nazi” card against him. In most cases, this has been done in a stupid way: ignoring the word’s actual definition, and instead simply making…

Politics

Analysis of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections

Modeste Schwartz November 12, 2019

By Raoul Weiss. Romania – A preliminary warning is needed, which is valid for all elections organised in Romania. The counting of the votes is entrusted to a militarised secret service, the STS (the Special Transmissions Service), which employs a non-homologated software…

Politics

Romania: inventory on the eve of the Romanian presidential elections

Modeste Schwartz November 9, 2019

By Raoul Weiss. Romania - On the 10th of October in Bucharest, the Social-Democratic government fell after a no-confidence vote initiated by the liberal opposition (rather openly guided by president Iohannis) and his allies in the Parliament. A rather insignificant episode in…

Politics

Transylvanian pre-electoral chess: the bishop’s game

Modeste Schwartz May 2, 2019

By Raoul Weiss. Romania - On April 25, László Tőkés, a bishop of the Transylvanian-Hungarian Calvinist Church and already legendary freedom-fighter of the Hungarian minority in Romania, who is also a FIDESZ MEP, paid a visit to MM. István Beke and Zoltán…

Society

The Political Vocation Of Romania

Thibaud Gibelin February 22, 2019

By Thibaud Cassel. Part 1/3 here! - Part 2/3 here! - 3/3 - Part 3: Romania on the wire - The Celebration of the centenary of modern Romania on December 1, 2019. The "evil wind" coming from the East, denounced by the…

Society

Romania: The Flaws And Shadows Of National Unity

Thibaud Gibelin February 5, 2019

By Thibaud Cassel. Part 1/3 here! - 2/3 - 2nd part of Thibaud Cassel's exclusive report in Romania From Bucharest to Alba Iulia, on December 1st, the union of the "Greater Romania" is celebrated, a union that enables many political hijackings. What…

Politics

2019 European Parliament Elections: Chess Game in Central Europe

The Editorial Board January 16, 2019

By the editorial board. What will the European Parliament look like after the elections of May 26? Chess game in Central Europe, Salvini's activism, repositioning of Western European populists, consequences of Brexit and questions about Fidesz and ANO. The meeting between…

Politics

Romania Plagued by the Yellow Caps Movement

Modeste Schwartz December 10, 2018

By Raoul Weiss. Romania - A photograph (reproduced above) is currently going viral on the Romanian web (for example here, under the sharp pen of the very knowledgeable blogger Bogdan Tiberiu Iacob). We see President Klaus Johannis, on the official tribune of…

Politics

Romania: December 1st of All Dangers

Modeste Schwartz November 20, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - In all the post-communist countries integrated in the EU and showing signs of rebellion, the Euro-Globalist forces (which now also oversee the Atlanticist-Globalist structures left behind by the Obama administration, and which the Trump administration has not…

Interviews

Modeste Schwartz: “Banning Me, One Further Step Towards Romania’s Re-Morphing into a Police State”

Ferenc Almássy November 4, 2018

Hungary - Phone interview with Modeste Schwartz, graduate of the French elite school ENS-Ulm, linguist, translator, author, publicist and author for the Visegrád Post and other websites: "Banning me, one further step towards Romania’s re-morphing into a police state". At the end…

Society

Romania Post-Referendum: X-ray of a Sick Society

Modeste Schwartz October 9, 2018

By Modeste Schwartz. Romania - On Saturday, October 6, and Sunday, October 7, just under 4 million Romanian citizens went to the polls to vote in the so-called “referendum on the family”, a little over 20% of the official electoral body (why…