A speech from Kennedy’s presidential campaign, now recirculating widely, lays out the most complete version of the argument that Washington provoked the war it claims merely to be resisting.
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When thousands of Albanians poured into the streets of Tirana chanting “Albania is not for sale,” they were reacting to what many see as the most brazen act of political clientelism in the country’s post-communist history
On the steps of a Bucharest courthouse, Călin Georgescu delivered what may be his most incendiary statement yet
Romania has a long and distinguished tradition of being disappointed by its saviors. It is practically a national sport at this point, refined over generations, passed down like a folk recipe for disillusionment.
Russia Today claims that the ruling elites in Brussels, Paris, and London are blocking and torpedoing the deal between Putin and Trump in Anchorage, Alaska.
Tisza, the party with a doubtful ideology, created only for the defeat of Viktor Orban, will dominate the Parliament in Budapest, the electorate giving him 2/3 of the total seats
There is a particular cruelty in political irony — the kind that doesn’t announce itself until the trap has already closed. For Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary and self-proclaimed fortress of sovereign democracy that trap may be springing shut on April 12, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has chosen to be heard clearly rather than to be diplomatically safe. The choice reflects a reading of this particular moment that is not without justification.
A major independent report on the rule of law in the European Union has delivered a scathing assessment of a pivotal moment in Romania’s recent political history, framing it as a severe democratic backslide. The Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) Rule of Law Report 2026