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Romania's Economy Stalls in 2026. Is There Still a 2027 Window?

The European Commission projects just 0.1% GDP growth for Romania in 2026. Statistics bureau data confirms what was already plain: the country is in economic crisis.

  • European Commission projects 0.1% GDP growth for Romania in 2026 — near stagnation.
  • High inflation and fiscal consolidation are eroding domestic consumption.
  • Without a stable government, any 2027 recovery window remains deeply uncertain.

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Nicușor Dan drifts from his base — in year one

Unlike Băsescu and Iohannis, Romania's new president appears to be losing his core voters before any major political fight has even begun.

  • Dan is reportedly the first Romanian president to lose core voter support within year one.
  • Băsescu and Iohannis both consolidated their base before it began to erode.
  • The ongoing government crisis places Dan at the center of the hardest negotiation of his mandate.

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Georgescu paid a 200,000-lei fine. Where did the money come from?

The candidate who declared zero campaign spending, zero income and zero official donors quietly settled a 200,000-lei fine from Romania's Electoral Authority — with no explanation.

  • Georgescu paid the full 200,000-lei AEP fine despite having declared zero income and zero campaign spending.
  • The Electoral Authority fined him for complete lack of financial transparency during the 2024 electoral campaign.
  • The source of the funds remains unknown — no public investigation has produced an answer.

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The "disarmament" of artificial intelligence: a call from Magnifica Humanitas

A papal document revives an old question: who controls technology, and in whose service does it exist?

  • Magnifica Humanitas calls for AI to be freed from monopolistic control and opened to genuine public debate.
  • The papal document frames technology as a question of power, not merely of technical risk.
  • Whoever controls the language around AI effectively controls the policy decisions that follow.

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Mungiu, Chivu and the olympiad kids: excellence despite the state, not because of it

In a single month, Romania produced several world-class achievements. None of them came from coherent public policy.

  • Mungiu, Chivu, Căpitănescu and olympiad students: four Romanian achievements in one month.
  • These performances emerge despite institutional mediocrity and chronic underfunding, not thanks to them.
  • Individual excellence cannot substitute, in the long run, for a functioning public policy framework.

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I followed a bestselling sleep guide and ended up with five of us in one bed

A mother recounts how a famous parenting manual made nights worse — and how the solution turned out to be everything the book warned against.

  • A bestselling child sleep method produced the opposite of its promised results.
  • Co-sleeping — the book's opposite — turned out to be what actually worked.
  • Universal sleep advice consistently fails to account for individual family realities.

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Robbed in London, questioned by police: a day you'd rather skip

A Romanian writer recounts how his phone vanished in a split second in central London — and how he ended up, briefly, in the police's crosshairs himself.

  • His phone was snatched in fractions of a second in central London.
  • Police responded quickly but briefly focused on the victim as well.
  • The Republica.ro essay captures the bewilderment of navigating an impersonal system.

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The Holy Spirit in the Creed: what we profess and what we forget

A theological reflection on the article about the Holy Spirit in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed and the gap between recitation and understanding.

  • The Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed describes the Holy Spirit as a divine person, not an impersonal force.
  • The theological formula was settled after decades of fourth-century council debates.
  • The gap between ritual recitation and living understanding of the Creed remains a persistent pastoral challenge.

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PSD wants power without accountability

Romania's largest party isn't refusing to govern out of principle — it wants to pull strings from behind the scenes while blaming others in public.

  • PSD seeks to govern from the shadows, without publicly owning its decisions.
  • The "zero government" model assigns responsibility to others while retaining real control.
  • The constitutional deadline for investing a new prime minister falls on June 19, 2026.

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What Romanian MEPs say they want to defend in Brussels

Five Romanian MEPs were asked what Romania should fight for in the European Parliament — a question that exposes a real communication gap.

  • Romania has 33 MEPs in the European Parliament following the June 2024 elections.
  • Romania's Brussels priorities — funds, agriculture, defence — are rarely communicated to the public.
  • With the EU's multiannual budget in negotiation, effective Romanian representation has never mattered more.

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