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Electoral frustration doesn't come from nowhere

When institutions bend the rules of the game instead of following them, it's democracy that pays the price — not the politicians.

  • Frustration built by the artificial PSD–PNL coalition fuelled AUR and the far right.
  • Both Iohannis and Dan bent the rules of the democratic game, each in their own way.
  • Romania has lacked a fully empowered government for a month, deepening the legitimacy crisis.

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Traditional morality under ideological siege

A commentary on the erosion of cultural and moral reference points under the pressure of contemporary ideology.

  • Traditional moral reference points are being rapidly eroded by contemporary ideological pressure.
  • The author argues these very reference points guaranteed community cohesion and diversity.
  • The essay raises questions about collective identity without proposing concrete solutions.

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Tomac is a symptom, not a solution

Naming a prime minister candidate after a month of governmental limbo reveals a deeper fracture in Romania's political system.

  • Tomac has ten days to submit a cabinet list and governing programme.
  • Investiture requires 233 votes; AUR, PNL and USR reject any deal involving PSD.
  • Romania has been without a fully empowered government for one month.

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Ion Rațiu, a necessary rereading: memory confiscated by force

An essay on the danger of overturning historical memory in today's Romania — and on intellectuals' duty to resist both nostalgia and silence.

  • Ion Rațiu argued that democracy is built daily, not improvised in moments of crisis.
  • Romania's intelligentsia oscillates between dangerous nostalgia and complicit silence — both are forms of abandonment.
  • The confiscation of historical memory through brutality is faster and more visible than ever before.

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Gelu Duminică: online hatred didn't come out of nowhere

Sociologist and activist Gelu Duminică traces the roots of digital abuse — and asks why Romanian society treats it as normal.

  • Online verbal violence is rooted in behavioral patterns normalized from childhood.
  • Toxic comment authors are often ordinary people, not just bots or extremists.
  • Duminică questions whether a society can condemn what it has itself produced.

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Thirty-five years of reckless borrowing, a lesson still unlearned

Romania's political class has consistently ignored basic public finance principles, and today's punishing borrowing costs are the bill coming due.

  • 35 years of irresponsible borrowing have left Romania with some of the EU's highest sovereign yields.
  • The essay cites public finance principles systematically ignored by the political class.
  • Chronic budget deficits shrink investment capacity and shift costs onto ordinary citizens.

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Tomac sent into negotiations without a majority or a plan

After 30 days of failed consultations, President Nicușor Dan nominated his honorary adviser Eugen Tomac as prime minister without clarifying who will back the new cabinet.

  • Eugen Tomac was nominated prime minister on Thursday with no confirmed parliamentary majority.
  • USR, PNL and PSD have not announced explicit support for a Tomac-led cabinet.
  • The constitutional deadline for a new government's investiture is 19 June 2026.

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Tomac: a skilled bridge-builder, but with little appetite for political risk

The prime minister-designate is widely seen as a consensus-builder, not a front-line fighter. The question is whether the moment will change him.

  • Tomac designated prime minister with ten days to build a parliamentary majority.
  • Public profile: skilled mediator, but no track record of taking on major political risks.
  • Constitutional deadline is June 19; failure opens the door to snap elections.

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The Tomac Government: Sacrificial Lamb or Shot in the Dark?

Nicușor Dan's nomination of Eugen Tomac as prime minister prompts an uncomfortable question: is this a political strategy or sheer improvisation?

  • Tomac was nominated prime minister without a clear parliamentary majority to back him.
  • The constitutional deadline to invest a new government falls on 19 June 2026.
  • Two failed votes within 60 days would allow the president to dissolve Parliament and call snap elections.

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Radu Afrim and the theatre of small gestures that leave deep marks

An essay on what makes Afrim more than a successful director: his ability to turn the banal into a language of collective trauma.

  • Afrim builds dramatic trauma from small gestures, not spectacular events.
  • The audience does not watch a fiction — it recognises itself in one.
  • His productions function as a diagnosis of the Romanian collective psyche.

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