Romania's political crisis is approaching another turning point. Prime minister-designate Luca Niculescu will send his cabinet list and government program to parliament on Thursday, October 15, after which the ministerial candidates' committee hearings can begin, to be followed by a parliamentary vote of confidence. That's roughly all that's certain - and even that isn't entirely certain, which sh

According to French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, foreign actors are trying to influence France's 2027 presidential election, and this time he put not only Moscow but also Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, at the top of the list of those seeking to undermine European democratic debate.

According to US President Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin would rather have a peace deal than Volodymyr Zelensky. The statement was quoted by Sky News, and it came on the same day that the Russian army, despite the “energy ceasefire” announced by the American president, continued to bomb Ukraine's energy system.

From January 1, 2027, Greece will ban young people under the age of 15 from using social media platforms, making it one of the first European Union member states to introduce such a strict age limit. The measure was announced on Monday in Athens by Minister of State Akis Skertsos, at a press conference attended by several members of the government.

On Monday, Romanian Foreign Minister Oana Țoiu point by point refuted the claim, spread mainly by AUR, that Romania is giving up its veto right or losing it within the European Union. The minister said this was "a lie from beginning to end," and that the document at the center of the dispute does not take away any member state's ability to block decisions — it merely requires that whoever uses tha

For the first time since the end of World War II, the United States military would carry out a death sentence by firing squad, and according to a Pentagon official, the execution would be broadcast live on the internet. Nidal Hasan, a former army psychiatrist who opened fire on his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood military base in Texas in 2009 and killed thirteen people, was sentenced to death by a m

An online fraud method is spreading rapidly, allowing attackers to break into private and corporate accounts without a password, even bypassing two-factor authentication. Romania's National Cybersecurity Directorate (DNSC) published on Monday in its quarterly report, which reviews the main IT threats of the period between April and June 2026, specifically warns of this danger. According to experts

Yes, that's how it is: Russia and Putin have won. Not on the front, where after four and a half years it still has not managed to break Ukraine, and where it has cost the Kremlin roughly one and a half million soldiers killed and wounded just to plant its flag over a few ruined towns. Moscow has not won the war of tanks. But the war it is waging not against Ukraine but against Europe and the West

On October 12, in Luxembourg, the foreign ministers of the European Union's member states added nearly 1,600 Russian individuals and companies to the sanctions list. This is the largest single expansion since the war began, and it targets participants in Russia's military industry, particularly the production chains for drones and ballistic missiles. Kaja Kallas, the EU's High Representative for F

Nearly two-thirds of Germans would maintain or increase European countries' military support for Ukraine, according to Germany's public broadcaster ZDF's latest Politbarometer survey. According to the poll by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, 30 percent of respondents want stronger military support, 33 percent favor keeping the current level, and another 33 percent would reduce arms deliveries. ZDF conclud

A genuine, unadulterated Russian fake news story has arrived — fresh, hot off the press, and just stupid enough to be worth sharing with our readers. Citing information from an unnamed woman serving in the Russian armed forces — how fortunate that in Romanian the word for soldier also carries gender, otherwise we wouldn't even know that much about the source — Russian channels report that Kyiv is

On October 12, the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, passed law no. 16119, which guarantees the educational rights of national minorities and indigenous peoples. According to reports by UNIAN and Ukrinform, 266 lawmakers supported the bill, even though a majority of the constitutional 450 seats – that is, 226 votes – would have been enough for it to pass. Because of the war and the Russian

The Trump administration has threatened Ukraine's top military and government leaders that it will cut off the sharing of intelligence and close off one of Kyiv's last remaining channels for acquiring American weapons if Ukrainian drones continue to strike Russian oil refineries - the Kyiv Independent reported, citing two Ukrainian officials.

American defense company Anduril unveiled its modular interceptor missile family, called Steelfin, on October 12, just days after Lockheed Martin presented the next-generation missile for the Patriot system, the PAC-3 Edge. According to an analysis by Cătălin Costea, a retired Romanian radar officer, published on the Defense Romania website, the two announcements seek to answer the same problem th

In the coming months, Russia may launch riskier, larger-scale operations against NATO member states that support Ukraine, Michal Koudelka, director of the Czech Security Information Service (BIS), said on Monday at a parliamentary conference on security policy. Koudelka outlined three scenarios.

The Kremlin on Monday rejected an offer from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who proposed a full sixty-day ceasefire so that a presidential election could be held in Ukraine. According to a report by the Russian news portal RBC, Zelensky said on Sunday: tell Putin to give two months, a full sixty-day ceasefire, and Ukraine will hold elections — to which Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin's spokesm

In early October, the U.S. Treasury Department launched an operation codenamed “Economic Outcast” against the network known as A7, described as one of the world's most complex parallel banking systems, which the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has declared a significant transnational criminal organization. At the head of the mechanism is Ilan Șor, a fugitive oligarch of Moldovan origi

Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent an official letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking whether the US government was involved in bringing down the government of Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, as Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece, reportedly claimed according to the Wall Street Journal — Meeks is expecting a reply and the reques

British authorities have confirmed to British Prime Minister Andy Burnham that Russia interfered in the 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union, the so-called Brexit. Burnham spoke about this on the "The Rest Is Politics" podcast, and this is the first time a sitting British prime minister has publicly acknowledged the Kremlin's interference. Burnham recounted that during a visit to Berlin h

At a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, on Saturday, Donald Trump announced that he would happily rename the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean, and he already knows what to call it. One of them could be named the "Trump Ocean" or the "Ocean of the Americas," or something along those lines, and he would like it to happen before the end of his term. As we've come to expect from the president, the