Romania's most prestigious award for an original theater play went to Mihaela Michailov's "At dawn the light is harsher". The play, overtly anti-fascist, is focused on Olga Bancic, a Romanian Jew who fought in the communist branch of the French resistance. www.bucurestifm.ro/2026/05/26/c...

Why would a public university in Europe operate a "Center for Global Studies" under a partnership with the Heritage Foundation? I don't know, but we can always ask the University of Sibiu, Romania.

I should NOT find this funny but Romanian politics is the kind of tragic farce you can't stop laughing at. So there's rumor that president Dan is pushing for his councilor, MEP Eugen Tomac, to take over as PM. Tomac comes from the evangelical right and was for many years a TRUMP fanboy who... 1/

Neofascists march with tiki torches in downtown Bucharest, Romania. Also on display: flags and portraits of Iron Guard members, officials of the pro-Nazi Antonescu government and other paraphernalia. The march was approved by the City Hall, May 14th is a remembrance day for political prisoners.

Musings of a (former) fascist. Nov 1982. Emil Cioran explains, in a private conversation, the rise to prominence of the English language: " [...] the English colonized North America and the Indies - while the French colonized the cannibals". (Entry in Sanda Stolojan's diary).

Romanian far-right clowns at the court of the Ugandan dictator. The one on the left, with the shades is Mihail Neamțu, chairman of the House committee for culture. The one the right is a former general, naturalized French citizen and... *check notes* Freemason.

Consistently polling in the 24% - 27% range.

The most popular international leader in Romania is... 🥁 Emmanuel Macron. To be taken with a grain of salt because, overall, 32.9% trust him v. 53.3% who don't trust him...

A must read, Jakub Mirowski's "Landfill Land" focuses on Europe's "largest waste-related ghetto", Pata-Rât near Cluj-Napoca, Romania. balkaninsight.com/2026/03/11/l...

Under the guise of honest criticism Romanian president Nicușor Dan is discretely fueling an anti-EU discourse. At the end of a rather bland and unimaginative May 9th speech Dan indulged in a bit of "objective criticism" which is little more than a tissue... 1/ www.digi24.ro/stiri/actual...

🇵🇱⚖️Polish rule of law crisis latest - out of the complete blue, ECtHR issues an interim measure in the case of four Constitutional Tribunal limbo-judges against Poland, ordering the Polish authorities to make sure these people can sit on the Tribunal. I wasn't ready for this one, honest. 1/

The Greek Bar Association may appeal the not-so-subtle attempt of the Supreme Court to shelve the #Predatorgate case. @ec.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu should support the case. greekreporter.com/2026/05/06/a...

THE lesson from Petér Magyar’s defeat of Viktor Orbán is that, in a competitive authoritarian system, you have to tailor-make your campaign to the gamed political system you operate in. Clearly, the Democrats have still not learned that lesson.

#Romania: The first fallout from social democrat support for extreme nationalist AUR's no-confidence vote against Bolojan-government. Senator Victoria Stoiciu resigned from PSD: "I cannot and will never support the normalisation of fascism". tvrinfo.ro/senatoarea-v...

The political left is disappearing across Central Europe, despite Orban's defeat in Hungary

UDMR/RMDSZ representing the Hungarian minority in Romania refuses to join a government which includes AUR or which is backed by AUR in parliament. My comment: this doesn't mean they're willing to topple an executive backed by AUR. adevarul.ro/politica/tan...

#Romania Will PM Bolojan reach an agreement with the far-right to avoid a non-confidence vote? How far will the collaboration go? Given the PM's haircut should we have seen this coming? Tough questions. Stay tuned for more.

The EU Committee on Legal Affairs has voted to lift the immunity of Romanian MEP Diana Șoșoacă, a far-right, pro-Russian lunatic, thus allowing Romania to continue an investigation into her for essentially biting and kidnapping an Italian journalist and glorifying fascism.

One of the things I find amazing in my Romanian social media bubble is that basically everyone commenting on the ongoing political crisis completely ignores the popular vote in the 2024. PM Bolojan's party came 3rd with little over 13%. A minority PNL-USR gov't would, in fact, represent less... 1/

Romania enters a period of political turmoil as the (neither)_Social_(nor)_Democrats leave the government coalition. Sensing this is the time of monsters, libertarian guru Claudiu Năsui openly advocates seeking the support of the far-right AUR to pass "reforms".

In his concession speech, Orbán mentioned how the same number of votes that got him a landslide victory in 2014 wasn't enough for more than defeat now. He didn't care to reflect too much on what that said about the nature of his past victories. But Juraj's chart illustrates it nicely.

This narrative about AUR and how it came to be is extremely problematic to say the least. It is a convenient narrative, pushed by the anticommunist right of the '90s and 2000s and intended to hide how deeply rooted AUR is in that very right. Let it be said, Nicușor Dan, whose sympathies for the.. 1/

Pepin the Short vibes...

NOT A REVIEW I just finished reading "Fascist Martyrdom for Export Fr. Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa (1925–2006) and the “Saints of the Communist Prisons” as a Transnational Movement in Post-Communist Romania", a book chapter by Ionuț Biliuță⬇️. 1/ www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Romanian MP Mihail Neamțu (AUR - far-right), chairman of the House Committee for Culture, has reached a point where he's spreading the most insane conspiracy theories. This one⬇️ is about the temple coin, a few days ago he posted something about red heifers.

Worth watching one potential consequence of Orban's defeat for Transnistria: the separatist region in Moldova has recently gotten gas with support from Hungary-based MET and Russia (Newsmaker, an MD news portal drew up the attached figure a few months ago) ...

The anti-Muslim narrative is beyond ridiculous when it comes from the Spanish far-right. I'm saying that because the last time Moroccan shock-troops were flown across the straights, guess who was doing the flying?

So... some of you were shocked to read the Bishop Sebastian's pastoral letter yesterday and wrote asking for further details. Well, it's a long story but his (Un)Holiness is well known Iron Guard fan-boy with close ties to AUR. Here⬇️ are some photos published by AUR senator Lavric in February. 1/

Peter Magyar name-checks Spain, alongside France, Slovakia and the Balkan countries, as places where Hungary will no longer meddle with internal affairs: xcancel.com/clashreport/... (Relevant headline attached.)

In his Easter Pastoral, Sebastian, Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Slatina and Romanați argues that by adopting democracy Humanity "erased the final trace of God's presence in society". He also claims that the war in the Middle East is God's punishment... 1/ www.episcopiaslatinei.ro/scrisoare-pa...

Szijjártómorrow

Joke of the day: the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania supported Péter Magyar from day 1. Their organization is even named after Péter Magyar: Romániai Magyar Demokrata Szövetség.

Flash-back: it's 2012 and Romanian president Traian Băsescu endorses Viktor Orbán and encourages Transylvanian Hungarians to vote Fidesz. epochtimes-romania.com/news/traian-...

The approach is not what I'd call original...

District mayor Daniel Băluță plans to build a new park and name it after US president Donald J. Trump. Băluță is with the, let this sink in, the "Social Democratic" Party. www.romania-insider.com/bucharest-ne...

Former Israeli MP Colette Avital was injured during an anti-government protest. Avital, 86, was born in Bucharest and served as a member of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Romanian court rules country must recognise trans man as man in landmark case https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/04/06/romania-trans-court-ruling/

Fish-hook theory? Nah, I'm just being mischievous... So this happened a few days ago in the Romanian Senate. AUR (far-right) and USR (center? neolib? libertarian?) voted in favor of banning communist organizations, symbols etc. The bill was rejected because... 1/ www.senat.ro/VoturiPlenDe...

BREAKING: The golden Romanian helmet of Coțofenești, which was stolen last year from a museum in the Netherlands, has been recovered. Great work by the Dutch police!

A great man died today. One of a very, very small number of politicians whom I admired as young man and kept admiring as I aged. www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

#Romania Local Timișoara periodical Ziua de vest notes that the Town Hall delayed renaming several streets. The Institute for the Study of the Holocaust had notified the authorities that several streets were named for fascists, pro-Nazi politicians, and... 1/ www.ziuadevest.ro/primaria-tim...

The situation is in fact far more complex. In the vote regarding the temporary deployment of new US troops in Romania 272 MPs voted in favor, 18 voted against, 5 abstained. AUR alone has 97 MPs. Add to that 16 MPs still affiliated to S.O.S and 10 to POT. 1/

"Anything that looks messy becomes forbidden, because it might be used, misread, exploited. This is how a left becomes politically colorblind. It loses the ability to distinguish solidarity with people from alignment with states, to oppose the Imperium without granting dictatorships a free pass..."

Romanian periodical "Adevărul" (i.e. The Truth) titles " March 3rd the day when Mircea Vulcănescu, martyr of the Romanian nation was born". To be fair the article does mention that "some people" find Vulcănescu controversial because he was part of Antonescu's... 1/ adevarul.ro/istoria-zile...

Romanian senator Sorin Lavric (AUR - far-right) remembers Valeriu Gafencu, "the Prison Saint". Gafencu was fanatical fascist who armed schoolchildren during the 1941 Iron Guard insurrection.

Minutes of a summit meeting of the Iron Guard in exile in 1958. Poet Ioan Cușa reads a message written by priest Vasile Boldeanu, who could not attend in person. Both Cușa and Boldeanu were influential figures of the Romanian exile in Paris. Cușa owned a printing shop and published... 1/

AUR MP in full regalia.

Moldovan humour. Steven the Great is our national icon, who holds the cross in his hand in the middle of Chisinau, for he founded many monasteries as he fought the occupying Turks in the Middle Ages. And the wine, well, you know we make great wines. Always happy to explain jokes

Screenshots of articles presenting the rise of the French National Front and Jean-Marie Le Pen in a favorable light. Both were published by the Romanian diaspora periodical "Stindardul românilor" in 1986↙️ and 1987 ↘️ respectively. 1/

M. Vassal, mayoral candidate in Marseilles, France, backed by a coalition of the mainstream right endorses the motto of the Vichy government: "work, family, fatherland". With a topping of hastily added "humanity". www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...