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In Belgrade, Premier Ana Brnabic recently participated in the Gay Pride march, in a first for Serbia. Meanwhile, preparations for the anti-gay referendum have started in Bucharest. Serbia is one of the few European countries that is not a member of the EU. Until recently, it experienced a regime that was ultra-nationalist and which invoked […]

A note posted on the Tweeter page of UK’s prestigious Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), on 14 September 2017, signals an unavoidable reality in the field of identifying major trends in international relations, regardless from what geographical or ideological standpoint one looks at it. Here is the note: “The EU and China have […]

“Nationalism is a condition of mind, feeling or sentiment of a group of people living in a well-defined geographical area, speaking a common language, possessing a culture that expresses the aspirations of the nation, having a common tradition and, in some cases, a common religion.” An intellectual creation stemming from a strong positive feeling, as […]

Browsing through familiar twitter accounts led me to a communique posted on the webpage of the Russian embassy in London, which reiterates the information broadcast by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: “@MFA_Russia: Moscow is ready to discuss extending START treaty for another 5 years, if that is the intention of the US Government.” The […]

Ruling power leader Liviu Dragnea and Opposition leader Ludovic Orban met at the grave of Avram Iancu, in the Apuseni Mountains. Military leader of the Moti in 1848-1849, during the battles with Hungarian revolutionaries, today Avram Iancu is a symbol of Romanian nationalism. Consequently, numerous leaders have paid their respects to him in the last […]

Bearing in mind the tense situation in Eastern Europe, where a pronounced deterioration of the security situation became noticeable starting in March 2014 as a result of the events in Ukraine and of subsequent events – the annexation of Crimea, NATO’s response by beefing-up its military deployments in the region in order to reassure allies […]

We have grown used to criticising just about everything that has to do with or stems from politics. Usually, the criticism is directed not against the cause but almost always against the effects that it generates. Just like we have grown used to believing that the cause of all evil that keeps plaguing the Romanian […]

Some recent analyses of the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula, where the North Korean regime is repeatedly provoking the U.S. with nuclear threats (nuclear tests, the latest occurring on Sunday, September 3), point to an issue that requires a very careful look. The U.S., China and Russia are the only nuclear powers at the […]

Why is Liviu Dragnea in a hurry to hold the referendum against gay marriage? Victor Ponta, now his sworn enemy, is talking about “cheap populism.” But it would be too easy to see everything as a diversion meant to cover up political measures that have a high potential of unpopularity, such as the expected judiciary […]

After a well-deserved summer holiday, we enter autumn with all our eternal and dilemmatic daily issues from which the issue of political doings cannot be absent. There is an old saying, somewhat outdated and which brings back to mind times that were not too happy, but which can be used – with the same simplistic […]