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...

Who was the first Romanian-born member of the European parliament? Well, I'm not 100% certain but there is good chance it was this gentleman⬇️. Gustave A. Pordea (born Gustav Pordea in Dej Romania), a naturalized citizen of France. 1/ www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/1560...

"Carpații" (The Carpathians). December 1978. This was the periodical of the most radical faction of the Romanian fascist movement in exile - Horia Sima's loyalists who had taken refuge in Francoist Spain. The article is interesting because it documents... 1/

🚨🚨 #Hungary had a dreadful day yesterday at the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social; First, the CJEU suggested that the #Sovereignty law did breach EU law on several counts. Secondly, AG Capeta proposed the Court to annul the Commission’s decision to unfreeze €10B in funds. www.politico.eu/article/comm...

The problem with any serious analysis of the Romanian far-right is that at some point you stumble upon someone like Lulea. The man is cognitively challenged to an almost arcane level. Articulated thought simply warps around Lulea.

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.