Literally identical paragraphs, the same figures, deadlines and lists: according to an analysis by news.ro, the government program backed by the PSD and attributed to Luca Niculescu – submitted to parliament on Thursday – copied, in several chapters, passages from the program published a month earlier by the PNL–USR–UDMR coalition led by Siegfried Mureșan, as well as from the document submitted by

US President Donald Trump called it a "shame" on Thursday that Ukraine had resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries, and said that Volodymyr Zelensky is harder to negotiate with than Vladimir Putin. In an exclusive interview recorded at the White House for Newsmax, the pseudo-conservative television channel's program Finnerty, Trump said that Zelensky is "not a good partner" for the United States

With a final ruling, the Bucharest Court of Appeal lifted the seizure imposed in the Nordis case on the company group's apartments in Mamaia, worth more than 100 million euros. At its session on October 14, the court upheld the objection filed by Nordis Management and Nordis Mamaia against a July 21 decision of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), which had mai

Maybe all that's needed for autonomy is for the UDMR not to be in government?

The U.S. military has drawn up new attack plans against Iran that include the possible use of the GBU-43/B MOAB, the most powerful non-nuclear American bomb, known as the "mother of all bombs."

Designated Prime Minister Luca Niculescu submitted his cabinet's list and program to parliament on Thursday, completing the ten-day constitutional deadline that began on October 6, when the decree appointing him was published in the Official Gazette. The cabinet would include eleven PSD ministers and six technocrats. Committee hearings begin on Monday, and the joint session of parliament's two cha

The European Council's two-day summit began in Brussels on Thursday, with its agenda including competitiveness, Ukraine, the next long-term EU budget, the Middle East, European defense and security, migration, as well as enlargement and institutional reforms. The summit officially started at 10 a.m. local time, and António Costa, President of the European Council, will close it with a working lunc

On Thursday, a search was conducted at the Moscow home of Sergei Sokolov, editor-in-chief of the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, after which he was taken to the Investigative Committee for questioning. The paper itself reported this on Telegram. According to the editorial staff, contact with the editor-in-chief was lost shortly after noon on Thursday, when his phone was switched off j

Russia's oil and gas tax revenues may rise by 10 percent year-on-year in October, to 1,000 billion rubles, or $11.97 billion – according to calculations by the Reuters news agency. These revenues account for roughly a fifth of Russia's federal budget revenues and play a key role in financing the war against Ukraine, since Russia is the world's third-largest oil producer and exporter after the Unit

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that his country is resuming strikes on Russian oil refineries after suspending them for three days under pressure from the American administration. In an interview given to the Financial Times in London, he said the ban on attacking refineries had been lifted and "that was that." According to Zelensky, American military officials threatened their U

The United States has proposed unfreezing part of the Russian state assets frozen after the invasion of Ukraine and transferring them to a financial mechanism under American oversight, in order to restart peace negotiations - according to a report by the Financial Times, citing four sources, European representatives rejected the proposal. The plan was presented last week at talks held in Miami, wh

Ilie Bolojan, leader of the PNL and acting prime minister, explained on Thursday on Facebookwhy his party will vote to confirm Luca Niculescu's government, in which eleven PSD ministers will sit. “This vote will not be a vote of confidence. This vote is about getting out of a long crisis that Romania can no longer afford,” he wrote. According to a report by HotNews, the Liberal parliamentary caucu

Russia is working to rebuild its economic ties with certain European Union member states after Viktor Orbán's defeat in April's election deprived Vladimir Putin of one of his closest EU allies. According to a document obtained by Politico, Slovakia is reviving the Russian-Slovak intergovernmental commission on economic, scientific and technical cooperation, which was suspended after Russia's full-

A fire broke out on Thursday morning aboard the chemical tanker Wine Trader in the Black Sea, near Sulina, and eight of the twelve crew members went missing. According to a report by G4Media, the incident occurred after several drones had entered Romanian airspace over the previous twenty-four hours. The ship, sailing under the flag of San Marino, sent out a distress signal around 7 a.m. local tim

It seems the long march is over, during which Romania got along quite well without a government, but now we can start worrying, because on the one hand we will have a government, and on the other hand it will be a PSD government — however different it may seem from the outside, though it doesn't even seem different.

The agreement on Russian diesel shipments is only the first step: according to the Kremlin, more joint projects with the United States are in the works. Kirill Dmitriev, Vladimir Putin's special envoy for economic cooperation and foreign investment and head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), said the diesel deal had opened the door to further cooperation, and revealed that on Putin's in

For the second time in a row, Kyiv took a ballistic missile hit with no warning beforehand. According to Volodymyr Zelensky's Wednesday post, the Ukrainian system only detected the missiles when they were practically already over the city, and once again no warning came from the partners. Zelensky diplomatically does not spell out who the "partner" is, but everyone knows: Ukrainian air defense has

Ukraine's series of strikes on Russian refineries now gives Kyiv a greater bargaining advantage than anything it had a year ago, when Donald Trump was still mocking Volodymyr Zelensky by saying he “doesn't have the cards” against Russia. According to an analysis by Politico, this has become an increasingly serious problem for the American president. “In less than two years, we've gone from having

The Romanian National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) conducted searches on Wednesday in Constanța County in a tax evasion and money laundering case linked to the port servicing of NATO warships. According to G4Media, the investigation concerns a company called Global Defense Logistics SRL, whose managing director and 10.38 percent owner is Gabriel Daraban, commercial director of Oil Terminal, th

Bulgaria is turning to the UN Security Council and is also considering invoking allied consultations under Article 4 of the NATO treaty, after what were likely Russian drones attacked two merchant ships near the Bulgarian coast on Monday night into Tuesday, one of which sank. Bulgarian President Rumen Radev — actually President Iliana Yotova — said on Wednesday in an interview with Nova TV that So