Military officers and veterans have colonised Romania's administration, politics and state companies — yet the country's actual defence capability remains in serious doubt.
Military officers and veterans hold growing numbers of posts in public administration, state firms and parties.
The militarisation of bureaucracy does not translate into real operational defence capability.
Whether Romania can defend its territory in an emergency remains an open and unanswered question.
Romania's interim Labour Minister says he has three weeks to turn the public-sector pay bill into a proposal stakeholders can actually endorse — as unions warn of strikes.
Pîslaru: three weeks remain to finalise an agreed version of the public-sector pay bill.
Two consultation rounds already held — with public institutions and social partners.
Unions are threatening protests if negotiations produce no concrete results.
The PSD lawmaker criticised the caretaker government's failure to formally invoke allied consultations after a Russian drone struck a residential building in Galați on May 29.
Fifor calls for NATO Article 4 consultations after the Russian drone hit Galați.
Romania's caretaker government has made no formal request to allies.
Executive decision-making is frozen since the May 5 no-confidence vote.