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Given the ridiculous media attention being paid to the Putin-Trump call, it needs repeating that the man who started the war and the man who admires the man who started the war cannot negotiate an end to the war between the two of them, without Ukraine.

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Last night in Bucharest, love and Europe embraced each other in the streets. The victory of the pro-European candidate over the far-right shows that hope still beats fear, and unity triumphs over division.

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If, a big if, this outcome is confirmed, it'll give me great pleasure to see JD Vance eating his heart out after his rant re Romania 🇷🇴 in his Munich speech

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🇵🇱🗳️🇷🇴 Excuse me dear "Simion sadly will win Romania, Poland will be fine" Romanians, you owe me a bottle.

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18th May 1939, Giovanni Falcone is born in Palermo. "Those who stay silent and bow their head die every time they do so. Those who speak out and hold their head high die only once."

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Speaking in broken French on a far-right Parisian TV channel, Simion labeled Macron a “dictator,” accused the French of lacking faith in God, compared France to Iran, and uttered numerous other absurdities. A disgrace for 🇷🇴, putting at risk its centuries-old privileged relationship with 🇫🇷.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

High stakes in Romania’s presidential election on Sunday. While independent Nicușor Dan wld hold the country’s pro-Western course, ultranationalist George Simion wld be a disruptive figure at the EU & NATO, especially on support for Ukraine. My take in @politico.eu www.politico.eu/article/geor...

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The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.

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Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...

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apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

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Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal. And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.

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Rosja się cieszy. Nawrocki i jego prorosyjski rumuński odpowiednik George Simion na jednej scenie pięć dni przed wyborami prezydenckimi w Polsce i Rumunii. Wszystko jasne.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

Always nice to read @nathalietocci.bsky.social columns in the Guardian. The press is often eager to jump on divisions between allies, doom & gloom, etc regarding the war in Ukraine, much less so when it is about strength & optimism.

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The Romanian candidate Simion, known for his pro-Russian stance, refuses to participate in televised debates in Romania just five days before the election. Yet, he finds time to travel to Poland to support an extremist candidate who claims to be “anti-Russian.” 👀

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🗳️Romania’s pro-Kremlin far-right presidential candidate George Simion is now campaigning with 🇭🇺PM Viktor Orbán’s endorsement—in leaflets and videos targeting Hungarian-inhabited areas—as polls show a tight race. Simion built his career smearing and vilifying the Hungarian minority. Totally absurd.

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I'm old enough to remember the times when Americans descended upon the post-1991 Baltic countries to teach us how not to be corrupt. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The UN says starvation and famine is imminent. Now some Israeli officers say the same. Mass, deliberate starvation of 2 million people. That's what's happening. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/w...

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Good luck to the future of European, free Romania, Nicusor Dan and our Droa party’s ALDE sister party, USR.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

You don’t have to agree on everything to consider someone an ally—especially when firmly, widely & long-established human rights principles are under assault. You do, though, need to agree on some really important, really basic things. Protecting journalists is one such thing.

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The lead that the Romanian populist candidate has isn’t small, but he keeps making stupid mistakes, as you would expect from someone with the personality fit for an autocrat. These mistakes, and the work done by good-natured people, are what will change the tide.

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‼️🤯 Viktor Orbán backs far-right, pro-Kremlin Romanian presidential hopeful George Simion—once a rabid anti-Hungarian nationalist—despite strong opposition from Romania’s ethnic Hungarian community and the UDMR party. Critics say Orbán is (again) serving Russian, not Hungarian interests here.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

US working with Russia directly against EU policy and interests.

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The Nazis declare their intention to exterminate the Warsaw Ghetto The BBC: A controversial policy decision reflecting the hard-line stance taken by the German government

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Day 163. Various marches are on their way to unite at the Europe Square on Europe Day. #GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪🇪🇺 📷 MOSE

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Running after Trump’s moving goalposts is a fool’s errand. What Europe needs to focus on is capability, not percentage of GDP

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Ten thousand people are taking part in the pro-European march in Bucharest, and in other cities across Romania and the diaspora. Romanians have gathered to show their disagreement with the massive extremist brainwashing.

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I don't think debates can be game-changers but in yesterday's debate in Romania's presidential race Nicușor Dan did good, in my opinion, and George Simion made several tactical errors. 1) Simion did not walk back on his promise to lay off 500k state employees and even called... 1/

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Președinta Republicii Moldova, Maia Sandu, îl susține pe Nicușor Dan în turul doi al alegerilor prezidențiale din România. Ea a declarat în cadrul podcastului realizat de Președinție că speră la o Românie europeană și puternică, care să rămână alături de Republica Moldova în parcursul european

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Woke Pope is such a perfect brainrot phrase.

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The Never Again moment is happening right now, right before your eyes. Help us defeat present-day Nazism, reborn in modern russia. Help us hold russia accountable for the horrific international crimes it is committing. Peace without justice is not possible. 📷 MFA Ukraine.

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📖🧵1-The Naked Don't Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins has been a very interesting read, proper field journalism. The author, a Japanese-Canadian journalist, decides in 2016 to travel the refugee road from Afghanistan to Greece with Omar, a friend he's made through his several work assignments.

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