Can you imagine me adding a subchapter on 🇫🇷 excellence to the one on key resources available for 🇫🇷 leadership, for the book I am writing?
Quite challenging to reconnect to a perspective I had more than half a decade ago, before Paris wasted immense opportunities…

🇷🇴 The MK military #airbase in Constanța (Black Sea) is expected to have even more soldiers than initially announced : it could house _20,000 soldiers_ and will become a key hub for supporting #Ukraine.
#NATO military aid will be stored there.

www.digi24.ro/stiri/actual...

🎙️CLICK THE LINK ➡️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

🇷🇴 Make sure to check out our latest podcast, where we break down election results in Romania, Poland and more from the Visegrád Group – joined by Alex Olaru @pressone.bsky.social Alina Bârgǎoanu and @raalcom.bsky.social.

France 🇫🇷 is being the object of serious intox and disinformation messages in the Romanian elections.
1. Telegram founder Durov blaming French gov. for attempts to influence Romanian elections;
2. TikTok post claiming that 🇫🇷 soldiers disguised as Romanian gendarmerie are ready to initiate civil war.

What a day ! A #massmedia whirlwind on @euronews.com at 10.00, @digi24ro.bsky.social at 12.00, @PrimaNews at 17.00 and again @digi24ro.bsky.social at 21.30 : and all about TRUMP. 🇺🇸
Did someone notice Macron?…

❓ What is the state of CEE? What's in store for EU democracies in 2025? Some recent work ⤵️

1. 📝 - 'European Democracy Shield Needs Defence Posture' - a quarterly brief I wrote with @wojciechprzybylski.bsky.social @yehaoqin.bsky.social @raalcom.bsky.social and several others!

Discussion with

📌 @raalcom.bsky.social, Babeș-Bolyai University

📌 #MateuszPiotrowski, Polish Institute of International Affairs (#PISM)

📌 @kristiraik.bsky.social, International Centre for Defence and Security @icds-tallinn.bsky.social

Moderated by⚡#AurélienDuchêne @eurocreative.bsky.social

🇷🇴 🇪🇺 The biblical cows of Poverty, Ignorance, Exclusion, Marginalization, Politicization, Hopelessness, Rancor and Deceit.

Summing up 35 years, especially the last quarter-century.

Some achievements came very late in an already deeply disfigured society.

www.politico.eu/article/roma...

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The Trump supporters stalked by doubt and conspiracy

https://on.ft.com/3SMuiI7

Seriously guys… the previous app logo was way better.

🤝👏
“Alianţa, an NGO dedicated to strengthening 🇷🇴🇺🇸 relations, hosts this annual gala to celebrate & honor those contributing significantly to the 🇷🇴🇺🇸partnership. The Gala showcases the cultural richness & collaborative spirit between the two nations.”

www.romania-insider.com/alianta-gala...

🇮🇱 🇵🇸
“Hamas is taking hostage not only over 200 Israelis but also 2 million Palestinians in the context of its holy war. It is time for the West to take on a historic task: to liberate Palestine like the Allies once did Germany.”

www.welt.de/politik/ausl...

Who remembers, cher @nicolastenzer.bsky.social, his 1993-1994 fascinating and wise plan of building a Common market of the Middle East?… Israel, Turkey, Syria and Egypt as the first 4 founding members, each with complementary resources.
Opportunity forever lost.
🇮🇱 🇹🇷 🇸🇾 🇪🇬

À mon courrier ce matin.
Un livre d'investigation qui promet d'être passionnant et nécessaire, et dont il faudra que les pouvoirs publics enfin (ce n'est pas la première alerte, même bien avant le 24 février 2022) tirent toutes les conséquences.
Merci, cher @nicolasquenel.bsky.social.

🇺🇦 puts an end to gas transit from 🇷🇺 to 🇭🇺 🇦🇹 in 2024; OMV looks for alternatives. 🇷🇴 is a major option, bc of Black Sea gas reserves via OMV-Petrom—but OMV🇦🇹 attempts to lobby the 🇷🇴gov. to change the export provisos of the offshore law failed.

economie.hotnews.ro/stiri-energi...

Thank you 1 million times, Ancuța, and what a pleasure to be here “far from the maddening crowd” 🥹🥰 Greetings from Transylvania 🍂!