Trump's approval ratings in Europe. The visual is by kos_data but it's based on the findings of the poll in the link below. I quickly checked some of the numbers, the visual seems legit. www.gallup-international.com/survey-resul...

When far right parties go out of their way to erase any distinction between "radical right" and "extreme right". In the upcoming local elections, the Dutch Forum for Democracy is running Frank Folkerts, a former member of the neo-nazi party NVU, as a candidate in Nieuwegein

Week-end reading. The⬇️ newsletter Vatra (The Hearth) was edited in Munich (hand-typed to be precise) by M. F. Enescu, a member of the fascist Romanian Iron Guard. Enescu was very active in diaspora circles, but that's a long story. Now, this two-page is interesting because it... 1/

Laure Murat, historian, professor at UCLA pays homage to the people of Minneapolis for their determination and bravery. And yes, "Murat", as in the name of the guy who led the charge of Eylau. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

My brain literally starting playing Trágala. I like Pedro Sánchez, he can talk the talk, let's see how he walks the walk.

German troops captured in Bucharest after 23 August 1944 being marched past the royal palace with the Athénée Palace in the background. Note: the Romanian guards are wearing German helmets.

Just finished reading the report. I lack the time and the disposition to comment on the document as a whole but the part covering the annulled Romanian elections of 2024 is very interesting. It also goes to show how fragile the position of the current Romanian gov't is. 1/

My chapter "Liberators, Partners, and Rapists: Jewish Women from Romania Encountering Red Army Soldiers around the End of World War II" was published in Nina Paulovicova, Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, Joanna Beata Michlic eds, Shattered Liberation...(Purdue UP, 2025). www.academia.edu/145333895/_L...

There's this thing about Romanian journalists, including the so called "quality press" that never ceases to amaze me. They do very little research when tackling a subject. Here's a recent interview of Valentin Naumescu, president Dan's councilor for European affairs. 1/ hotnews.ro/interviu-par...

🇸🇰🇪🇺⚖️It took a while, but the Commission is finally, belatedly, getting tough on Fico's softcore rule of law crisis. While not as severe as in 🇭🇺🇵🇱, the slowly crawling dismantling of checks and balances by the Slovak government is finally getting the attention it deserves. 1/

Short history thread. These are screenshots of the periodical "Cuvântul românesc", a Canadian-based Romanian-language periodical. Founded during the Cold War, it advertised itself as the most read newspaper of the Romanian exile, and while the statement needs to be fact-checked, it is plausible. 1/

A very interesting qualitative sociological study of the Romanian diaspora⬇️. UPenn graduate Barbu Mateescu investigated the profiles of Romanians who voted for either Simion or Dan in the 2025 presidential elections. 1/ www.kas.de/en/web/europ...

This was posted by the former campaign strategist of 2024/2025 Romanian presidential candidate Elena Lasconi.

22 January 1963. The Élysée Treaty was signed 63 years ago. It's important to remember Franco-German reconciliation and the importance this process had in European construction.

Opinion poll: 44% of Romanians believe their country should join Trump's Board of Peace. hotnews.ro/sondaj-avang...

I was expecting worse, tbh. geopolitique.eu/en/2025/03/2...

I'm so excited to see this book is coming out. I read drafts of the chapter on Romania. It's a great piece of scholarship.

In spite of everything that happened this past year, I stand by what I wrote on my twitter account before closing it: the American Republic will survive. It's not the 1930s. MAGA and Trump cannot topple institutions they have to grind and chew through them and they will, ultimately, fail.

Meanwhile new opinion polls are out in Romania and AUR is above 40%.

"US Archbishop of the Military Services Timothy Broglio: US military personnel could disobey ‘immoral’ orders against Greenland" www.thetablet.co.uk/news/broglio...

In this short thread I will quickly go over the reactions of Romanian officials regarding the "Greenland issue". President Dan posted what is a mature reaction, advocating de-escalation. Dan doesn't seem to realize that "appropriate diplomatic levels" are a thing of the past. 1/

Literary magazine "Drum", i.e. "Way"in Romanian, 1981. One of many openly fascist periodicals circulating among Romanian exiles during the Cold War. This one was published in Mexico, but, just like in other cases featured a diverse panel of contributors. 1/

This is good. The fact that it's a bipartisan group is even better.

Excellent piece by Elsa Conesa, Le Monde's correspondent in Berlin! Again: Trump's administration make not just the end of NATO but the end of the 27-member EU possible. Analysts are unearthing the project of the Union of Western Europe. 1/ www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

So, back in December 2025 Romania president Dan decorated a WW2 veteran who served with Infantry Reg. 89. According to Holocaust scholars the regiment was involved in several war crimes with some of its units even participating in the Iasi Pogrom. While... 1/ www.tvr.ro/reportaj-ana...

So, this morning I was reading "Ziarul Lumina", an official periodical of the Romanian Orthodox Church and I stumbled upon this article about the Christian family in the work of Romanian "national" poet Mihai Eminescu. 1/ ziarullumina.ro/actualitate-...

A receipt issued by the Jewish Communities in Bucharest detailing the number of shirts, breeches, stockings, handkerchiefs, & towels provided by an individual in November 1941 following a decree law issued a month prior forcing Jews to turn over such items to the state.

Flurry of reactions from pro-Russian politicians, int'l media outlets, and Romania to Sandu's response. Wanted to reiterate that she has said this before. And her statement doesn't change the priority of MD foreign policy at the moment: EU integration, not unification with RO.

A bill has been submitted in the Romanian Parliament seeking to legalize prostitution. It's not so much the substance of the text and the ensuing debate I'm interested in. It's the frontal opposition of the Orthodox Church. The bill is trans-partisan and... 1/ adevarul.ro/stiri-intern...

Most people in my Romanian and "Eastern European" bubble fail to measure what the Greenland issue means for Western Europe and particularly for France and the Netherlands. Remember France's longest land border is with Brazil. Remember that the French and the Dutch (as well the non-EU UK) have... 1/

Opinion poll in Romania, dated December 2025. Far-right party AUR would consolidate its advantage potentially reaching 36%. All other far-right parties would fail to reach the 5% threshold. Side note : I'm amazed at how many Romanian political journalists don't know... 1/ hotnews.ro/doar-patru-p...

Left Hand of Glumness Thought provoking read in Le Monde this morning, albeit somewhat melancholic. Olivier Pérou examines the memory of François Mitterrand as it survives in today's French left, 30 years after the president's death. 1/ www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

🇪🇺⚖️🦘🇵🇱 My first publication for 2026 is a joint undertaking (not our first one!) with @profpech.bsky.social , looking into last month's dramatic judgment of @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social in the case C-448/23, Commission v. Poland (Constitutional Tribunal) for @verfassungsblog.de 1/

Türkiye releases Ottoman-era intelligence file on ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ https://www.europesays.com/2685371/ Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) on Tuesday published an archival intelligence document concerning British officer and intelligence figure…

In late December 2025 Romanian outlet G4Media reported that several leading members of the fascist Iron Guard as well as Mircea Vulcănescu (a member of Antonescu's WW2 gov't directly involved in the Holocaust) had been painted on an Orthodox chapel in Bucharest. 1/ www.g4media.ro/chipurile-le...

A very thought provoking remark which I hope to revisit. To build on it, I will add this much: while Mayer's view is virtually unknown outside "specialized" circles, Nolte's has become extremely popular in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 to the point where it's basically mainstream.

"Historical and ethnographic sources depict use of portable braced shaft weapons, or pikes, in megafauna hunting and defense during Late Holocene millennia [...]. Drawing from historical examples [...] we consider the possibility of a fluted lithic pike." journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

A very smart take on the complexity of the Soviet siuation www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Just a quick comment to build on this⬇️ excellent observation. The first far-right group in the European parliament was created in 2007 following the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the EU⬇️. The group dissolved after only 11 months after a clash between... 1/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identit...

Jewish lawmaker in Romania sparks uproar after removing nationalist images from parli https://www.europesays.com/2656203/ A Jewish lawmaker who spearheaded Romania’s toughest legislation to date against antisemitism and xenophobia found himself at the…

A Romanian helmet & three Crusade Against Communism medals recently unearthed from the Stalingrad battlefields. Romanian soldiers often threw away these decorations, awarded for distinguished service in the campaign against the USSR, before entering captivity.

UK set to rejoin EU’s flagship student exchange programme Britain expected to return to Erasmus+ scheme in 2027 as part of reset of relations with the bloc (www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...)

Authorities in #Romania have arrested a former senator for allegedly attempting to offer a €1 million bribe to the country’s defense minister to facilitate an arms deal that could be fraudulently financed by a EU program. www.rferl.org/a/suspect-ar...

Wagons left behind in Galați by ethnic Germans from Bessarabia who were resettled to the Reich after the Soviet annexation of the territory from Romania in 1940.

Nigel Farage suggests young people on minimum wage earn too much Nigel Farage has suggested that the minimum wage may be “too high” for younger workers, as he laid out Reform’s vision for the UK economy.

Cotton harvest, 1963, Jerez de la Frontera by Ramón Masats. The social order of the south of Spain under Franco with "el señorito" still there,  though on the verge of change as huge numbers migrated to cities and across the Pyrenees.

#Moldova Photo essay by Didier Bizet in Transnistria. The region is currently facing economic collapse & the de-facto regime is more fragile than ever. But Russia won’t easily give up one of its last footholds in the region. Local elections are set for Nov 30. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...