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The Galați drone and the gap between plans and reality

The Galați incident tested more than Romania's diplomacy — it exposed an old gap between armament programmes on paper and actual anti-drone capability in the field.

  • The drone that crashed in Galați injured two people and triggered a special UN Security Council session.
  • The gap between armament programmes and effective anti-drone defence remains substantial.
  • The SAFE programme targets the medium term; short-term real-world coverage is incomplete.

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Croitoru: the state that "saves" destroys market order

Economist Lucian Croitoru diagnoses a global cognitive dissonance in a new book: citizens demand ever more state intervention, even though it produces the very imbalances they lament.

  • Croitoru argues that repeated state interventions block market mechanisms and amplify long-term imbalances.
  • The author describes a global cognitive dissonance: citizens demand state protection while undermining its principles.
  • The book does not reject the state, but questions the invisible costs of purposeful systematic intervention.

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Georgescu and the "manufacturing" of a candidate in 24 hours

Google search data on Călin Georgescu raises questions about the unusual speed at which an obscure candidate suddenly became highly visible.

  • Google searches for Georgescu surged explosively within an extremely short timeframe.
  • The data raises questions about whether his visibility was organic or coordinated.
  • Institutions have yet to deliver a unified public conclusion on the mechanism behind his rise.

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Ten recycled vulnerabilities of Romanian education

Romania's school system generates diagnoses with regularity. It generates real change far less often.

  • Romania's education system repeats its diagnoses but rarely delivers structural change.
  • Announced reforms consistently outpace reforms actually implemented in schools.
  • Diagnosis has become a substitute for action, not a starting point for it.

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PSD unleashes a verbal assault on Bolojan

PSD leader Sorin Grindeanu branded caretaker PM Ilie Bolojan a "political zombie," revealing the growing strain on a party that toppled the government but cannot form a new one.

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How companies sabotage their own AI adoption

A 90-item brief becomes a 450-point document when AI generates it. No one reads it. No one thinks. This is the trap of rushed digitalisation.

  • A 90-item brief becomes a 450-point document — and no human reads the result.
  • Companies automate broken processes instead of fixing them first.
  • Human judgment disappears precisely where accountability matters most.

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Ferenike and a South That Doesn't End at the Danube

An essay on how a book of childhood reopens the question of southern identity — beyond Oltenia and beyond the riverbank.

  • Ferenike explores southern origins beyond the conventional boundary of Oltenia.
  • The south of the Danube becomes an identity space in the book, not merely a geography.
  • The book functions as a tool for recovering diffuse, collective memory.

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The Galați drone and the sovereignists who refuse to see

The May 30 incident, when a Russian drone crashed into an apartment block in Galați, exposes not just a military vulnerability but a political one.

  • A Russian drone crashed on May 30 into an apartment block in Galați, confirmed by Romania's MApN.
  • Several local commentators denied the Russian origin despite technical evidence.
  • Systematic denial of Russian aggression is itself a tool of the information war.

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The Galați drone and Romania's pro-Kremlin disinformation network

The May 30 incident exposed not just a military threat, but an internal propaganda ecosystem that activated swiftly and in coordinated fashion.

  • A Russian drone struck a Galați apartment block on May 30, triggering a diplomatic crisis.
  • The incident rapidly activated domestic pro-Kremlin disinformation networks.
  • Internal propaganda remains harder to counter than the direct military threat.

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The Galați drone: accident or deliberate test of Western deterrence?

A Russian drone hit a residential building in Galați on the night of May 28-29. The real question is not technical — it's strategic: how far will Moscow push before the West pushes back?

  • A Russian drone struck a residential building in Galați on the night of May 28-29, 2026.
  • Three scenarios: navigational error, accidental deflection by Ukrainian defenses, or deliberate NATO boundary test.
  • Without a firm allied response, deterrence credibility erodes — exactly as Moscow prefers.

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