The DREPT party, led by Vlad Gheorghe, has asked Romanian President Nicușor Dan not to receive MEP Diana Șoșoacă at the government-formation consultations on October 5. According to the party, inviting the leader of SOS Romania grants political legitimacy to a figure who holds pro-Russian and anti-European positions.

Russia's increasingly dangerous hostile actions could drag Germany into a violent conflict, warned Martin Jäger, head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, at a hearing before the Bundestag on October 5. According to a report by Agerpres citing EFE and AFP coverage, Jäger believes the confrontation with Russia has entered a new dimension, while the threat of attacks on targets in Ger

Some worrying information has reached our editorial office: the Oradea (Nagyvárad) branch of RMDSZ (the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania) has been approaching people who shared our latest article in Ugar about the church of the Premonstratensian order in Oradea. According to what we were told, the tone was threatening, and blackmail wasn't missing from their toolkit either, in case peo

Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah and his colleagues tried to convince even the Pope's advisors to take seriously the possibility of artificial intelligence consciousness, after the preliminary text of Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical clearly rejected this idea. According to a report by Elizabeth Dias, a religion correspondent for The New York Times, the Vatican consultation was preceded by mon

The October 5 consultations at Cotroceni Palace have not yet produced a common agreement on forming a government: the PSD asked for the prime minister's mandate for Sorin Grindeanu, the PNL and the USR maintained their rejection of a PSD-led government, while the AUR demanded early elections. According to HotNews, citing liberal sources, Nicușor Dan told the PNL delegation that he leans toward nom

I don't know on what grounds RMDSZ senator Lóránt Antal and RMDSZ county president Barna Botond Bíró can deliver their grandiose soul-stirring speeches at the opening of a "poetry park" financed with money from a neighboring country - gathered from every corner of the world - while they themselves sat comfortably in the government in Bucharest.

The Vertical Gas Corridor originally promised to reduce Central and Eastern Europe's dependence on Russian energy through deliveries coming from the south. But a pipeline does not serve the cause of independence simply because the gas flows through it from a new direction: what also matters is where it originates, who trades it, and under what conditions it reaches buyers. This is the problem expl

Today, October 5, Romania is holding yet another round of government-formation talks: team manager Nicușor Dan has called up a squad that is almost unchanged from before, so there is little reason to expect a different style of play, more goals, or fewer yellow and red cards. Monday's round, however, undeniably has one interesting twist: George Simion, the top man of the gold-shirts, has pulled ou

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has publicly voiced his support for Kimberly Guilfoyle, the United States ambassador to Greece, after senior Democratic lawmakers called for an investigation into the diplomat's activities. According to a report by G4Media, the objections relate to the promotion of U.S. liquefied natural gas sales in Southeast Europe and to the ambassador's dealings with busines

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, in an interview with Die Welt, called the EU accession promises made to Ukraine a lie, because in his view, under the current conditions and following the usual procedure, the country will never be admitted. According to him, everyone knows this, and European officials even admit in private that the standard accession process is unsuitable for handling the situati

Russia has once again called on foreigners and diplomats in Kyiv to leave the Ukrainian capital, warning that the Russian army will continue its mass attacks. Saturday's statement from the foreign ministry even added that anyone who ignores the warning bears full responsibility for the consequences. What considerate killers: they warn in advance that they're going to shoot, and then it's the victi

Several senior officials of the U.S. administration held a meeting lasting several hours at Camp David on Friday on the next steps regarding the war with Iran and the Houthi rebels in Yemen, Axios reported, citing three American officials. The administration did not announce the meeting and provided no details about the military or diplomatic options discussed there.

The American-Russian negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine also extend to a multibillion-dollar oil deal, among whose potential beneficiaries are Donald Trump's supporters as well as Middle Eastern investors linked to the business networks of the two chief American negotiators, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. This was revealed by Anton Troianovski and Eric Lipton, two journalists at The New Y

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has reached 30 percent support nationwide for the first time, according to the Insa polling institute's surveys. In the poll conducted for Bild and released on Saturday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative alliance, the CDU/CSU, stood at just 18 percent, giving the AfD a twelve-point lead. Both figures are records in the institute's data series: the

Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Reuters that Ukrainian intelligence has obtained documents showing that, as winter approaches, Putin has widened the range of targets for air strikes. According to the Ukrainian president, by attacking infrastructure, logistics networks, roads, schools and hospitals, the Russian leadership wants to force people to leave Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.

AUR's leaders will take part in Monday's consultations on forming a government at Cotroceni Palace, but do not wish to discuss government positions, support a cabinet, or propose a candidate for prime minister, Dan Dungaciu, the far-right party's first vice president, announced. According to him, they are attending the meeting to remind President Nicușor Dan that he is the president of all Romania

According to documents from the Romanian Ministry of Labor presented by G4Media, the number of Romanians living in the main European destination countries may range between 4.37 million and 5.11 million, depending on the methodology used in the records. The difference arises because some data count only those actually registered as residents, while others include people with residency rights or th

Russia's richest businessmen this year helped out the state budget with 471 billion rubles, more than $5.6 billion. According to documents cited by Reuters, these "voluntary" contributions now cover more than one percent of Russian state spending, in a budget of which 38 percent goes to military and security purposes. The money flows into the state treasury, and from there it keeps the very same s

According to terrorism researcher Magnus Ranstorp, understanding Hezbollah's presence in Latin America requires examining above all the financial and logistical backdrop that allows the organization to operate. His analysis, published on Engelsberg Ideas on September 30, presents Venezuela as a rear base where state support, organized crime and certain actors in the legal economy complemented one

The Harghita County Council and its bosom buddy, the Harghita County waste collection company, couldn't even manage to translate into Hungarian the contract that residents are made to sign. And yet - at least as far as we know - the overwhelming majority of Harghita County's population is Hungarian-speaking.