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...

General Corneliu Dragalina, commander of Romanian VI Corps, on the eastern front during the Second World War with a portrait on his table of his father General Ion Dragalina, commander of Romanian First Army, who was killed on the eastern front during the First World War.

Great informative article on the LGBTQI+ community in Moldova (available in English here: www.dw.com/en/lgbtq-peo...).

Final ethnicity/language data from the 2024 Moldovan census is out. Lots of fascinating info. Some examples. First, overall self-declared ethnicity was Moldovan (about 77%) and Romanian (about 8%), while self-declared spoken language was Moldovan (48.1%) and Romanian (31.8%)...

My podcast interview with Stefan Ionescu about Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania (Cambridge UP, 2024) came out today. He describes how Jews had to sue the state to get their properties back only to have them confiscated by the Communists. newbooksnetwork.com/justice-and-...

Import from my X account (which should be deleted shortly). Newspaper clippings relating to the 1949 "incident" at the Romanian Orthodox Church in Paris (Rue Jean de Beauvais) when Iron Guard priests (supported by the worshipers) took over the edifice from archimandrite Martinian Iovanovici. 1/

Andrei-Constantin Gudu in Cross-border Talks⬇️. www.crossbordertalks.eu/2025/05/10/a...

⬇️ euronews.com/my-europe/2025

Starmer's opinion piece in the Telegraph is printed next to a defence of Sarkozy, freshly convicted of criminal conspiracy, and an ad for a pamphlet against colonial ‘guilt’. That's the audience that Changed Labour thinks wise to cultivate.

Romania's catastrophic education system. Data originating with France's Institut des politiques publiques shows that Romania has the lowest per student spending for primary education in the entire EU. Moreover Romania is an outlier. Bulgaria, with the second... 1/ www.liberation.fr/societe/educ...

How a French study reveals the catastrophic state of Romania's education system. Data originating from France's "Institut des politiques publiques" shows that Romania has by far the lowest spending in the EU per primary school student. Actually, Romania is... 1/ www.liberation.fr/societe/educ...

Far-right 🇷🇴 MEP Diana Șoșoacă is facing various charges for her antisemitic statements and Holocaust denial but also for the alleged physical abuse of Italian journalist Lucia Goracci back in 2022. hotnews.ro/diana-sosoac...

Crin Antonescu, PNL candidate at the 2025 🇷🇴 presidential elections (also backed by PSD), recently attacked rival party USR calling them "the Bolsheviks of our age". Antonescu says he will keep supporting PNL if it becomes "an anti-Soros force". www.gandul.ro/actualitate/...

Disturbing, well documented investigation by 🇷🇴 journalists Luiza Vasiliu and Victor Ilie (see link⬇️). The authors focus on one of the most popular neo-fascist accounts on X. They show the role of pro-Russian bots in increasing the account's visibility. drepturisistrambe.substack.com/p/botii-pro-...

Romanian president Nicușor Dan stands by his decision veto the bill reinforcing bans on fascist organizations and public display of fascist or antisemitic symbols. His arguments are red herrings pure and simple. www.dcnews.ro/nicusor-dan-...

Let's have a look at some data and statistics while the Romanian government sadistically butchers the country's education system. My source is this Eurostat report⬇️ (link included). www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...

Today at Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Växjö and on zoom! 👇 lnu.se/.../events/2...

Alexandru Bâlcu, a member of the Romanian neo-fascist organization Noua Dreaptă (The New Right) was convicted to a 1 year suspended prison sentence for placing stickers featuring fascist symbols on a synagogue. The legislation... 1/ www.g4media.ro/alexandru-ba...

A whopping 39% for the AfD in this poll of Saxony-Anhalt, in eastern Germany. An all-time record in polling for the state, and double what the party got in the last state election in 2021. www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/lan...

@apnews.com’s Anita Snow reviews Madeline Potter’s The Roma: A Travelling History (2025), “a fascinating look at a marginalized and misunderstood group.” Potter blends memoir and research to trace Romani persecution, resilience and culture across Europe. Read more: 📖 apnews.com/article/roma...

August 2025. Romanian president Nicușor Dan was interviewed by the Lucia Baki, a member of the Ogoranu Foundation on his intentions regarding the so called "Vexler law" - a bill reinforcing existing legislation which bans fascist organizations and... 1/ www.gandul.ro/actualitate/...

My work (direct.mit.edu/rest/article...) on competitive high school admissions in Romania and their effects on student outcomes features in this new article in Palladium magazine. 👇 www.palladiummag.com/2025/08/29/w...

Another glimpse into the history of Romanian fascism with a text from the "revival years". "Puncte Cardinale", Feb. 1995, celebrates Robert Brasillach, French far-right poet and Nazi-collaborator, 50 years after his execution. The text on the left is signed R.C. ... 1/

The burial procession of Marshal Constantin Prezan, a hero of WW1 who died on 27 August 1943, with his casket surrounded by an honor guard including generals of WW2 & followed by a group led by King Mihai I with Marshal Ion Antonescu & Mihai Antonescu immediately behind.

In this 🧵 we are going to look at specific neo-fascist group formed in Romania in the 1990s. I picked it not because it is the most influential but because it is directly linked to president Nicușor Dan's recent positions. The way we will be doing this is by looking... 1/

One of the most vile antisemitic conspiracy theories of post-1989 Romania has been resurrected on TikTok and is amplified by AUR senator Sorin Lavric. The screenshot shown a recent FB post by Lavric linking to a video showing a 2004 interview of Paul Goma. 1/

Up high, in the mountains of madness. Former mayor of Cluj-Napoca, Gheorghe Funar (a far-right clown) claims Russian president Putin was born to Romanian parents named Putină. This was just one take in an interview covering 1000 years of "history". Imagine the rest.

Snippets from my week-end reading. Short 🧵 Understanding the Romanian far-right underground, its links to European neo-fascist networks, its historical and political narratives requires reading their publications. Here's a 2021 issue of "Permanențe". 1/

An interview with historian Mihai Burcea. Arguably the best analysis of Ion Iliescu's life and political career currently available. Subtitles via machine translation work reasonably well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hL8...

My brain went offline for a second. The completely unhinged, antisemitic, far-right Romanian MEP Diana Iovanovici - Șoșoacă was decorated by the Fatah emissary in China with the Honorific Order of the State of Palestine. Source⬇️ www.stiripesurse.ro/diana-iovano...

NOT A REVIEW Just finished reading Francesco Zavatti's "‘To Be Assisted Secretly’: Catholic Humanitarianism and Romanian Displaced Fascists, 1945–7". Fascinating study into how the Vatican used its ratlines to bring Romanian fascists, including... 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Romania's National School of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA). A disgrace for academia, humanities, Humanity. A place where young women were sexually abused for years. A courageous investigation by journalists from Snoop shows how... 1/ snoop.ro/abuzuri-fara...

🇷🇴 news outlet Hotnews reports that president Nicuşor Dan will use his presidential prerogatives to send the law banning fascist organizations (& the display of fascist symbols etc) back to Parliament for re-examination. Not good. hotnews.ro/legea-vexler...

Romania's Constitutional Court unanimously rejected president Nicușor Dan's petition against the law banning fascist organizations, the display of fascist, racist and antisemitic symbols etc. Good! www.g4media.ro/breaking-cur...

Romanian president Nicușor Dan held a press conference today July 14th and provided some "clarifications" regarding his opposition to the bill aimed at banning fascist symbols, xenophobic or neofascist organizations. But let's take it step by step. 1/ www.digi24.ro/stiri/actual...

An article about mathematician Octav Onicescu, published July 2nd 2025 in "Ziarul Lumina" (The Light), an official periodical of the Romanian Orthodox Church and penned by M. Vasileanu. We are told that Onicescu was not a fascist. Never! Not even close. 1/ ziarullumina.ro/actualitate-...

"Our memory, our trauma is more important than yours." From my experience, this happens very often.

#OTD 16 June 1890. Birth of Nae Ionescu, the charismatic guru of Romania's fascist generation. Fascist theorist, radical antisemite, plagiarist. This thread is not about Ionescu but about Ionescu's memory in the Romanian diaspora during the Cold War. What you see here⬇️... 1/

Illustration by Grig Bejenaru for a 1983 Romanian translation of Daniel Keyes's short story "Flowers for Algernon" in "Almanahul Anticipația".

On the luminous path towards a meritocratic society. Rediu, Romania, 8k inhabitants. Mayor Cristinel Condrea (PNL - right) threatens to cut funding to the local school (bus, detergents, toilet paper) because the students' grades are too low. hotnews.ro/un-primar-di...

NOT A REVIEW I was thinking of sharing a few thoughts on Mihai Burcea's book "Luptând pentru o iluzie. Voluntari români în brigăzile internaționale din Spania" ("Fighting for an Illusion. Romanian Volunteers in Spain's International Brigades"). Remember the usual caveat: 1/

An article on Nature about how everything is going to hell with scientific research here in Argentina and why we're fighting back www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is just blatantly the Great Replacement conspiracy, the same far-right conspiracy rooted in antisemitism that motivated the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter. This is the administration that wants you to know how deeply they care about fighting antisemitism.

Romanian court of appeals convicts Dieter Johann Maurer, a textile shop owner, for selling tee-shirts featuring symbols associated with the fascist Legionary movement (aka the Iron Guard). This is an unprecedented application of legislation passed in 2002. www.tvr.ro/premiera-con...