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By Tiberiu Dianu Looking back, I can say that, over the years, I have had several important occasions to meet with a number of important leaders from the United States (presidents), Romania (monarchs, presidents and prime…

President Iohannis has announced today he designated Liberal chairman Ludovic Orban as the new prime minister, after a new round of consultations with PNL, USR and UDMR. A first round of talks with all the parliamentary parties, except PSD,…

Bucharest Court of Appeal has ruled on Friday that ex-president Traian Basescu had collaborated with Securitate, the former Romanian political police. The ruling is not final yet. The former head of state retorted he will challenge the…

By Tiberiu Dianu I write so much about politics in the U.S., and then recently someone asked about Romania. No one knows much of anything about Romania. So here are a few tidbits. 1. You can win a war and still lose…

Former Culture minister Theodor Paleologu, son of late Alexandru Paleologu, a famous Romanian literary critic, diplomat and politician, is to be nominated candidate for Presidency on the PMP lists. PMP chairman Eugen Tomac  confirmed the…

Five Romanian MEPs have been elected to the head of several standing committees of the new European Parliament resulted after the EP elections in May. Liberal Adina Valean has taken the most important seat, the president of the Committee on…

District 3 mayor Robert Negoita has filed on Tuesday a referral to the Prosecutor General’s Office upon the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ – Supreme Court) regarding land retrocession during Traian Basescu’s term in office as…

MEP Traian Basescu says that France and Germany are actually isolating the Eastern European Union countries by rejecting any Eastern European nomination for the EU leadership. On Friday, Traian Basescu was voted as Vice-President of the…

Traian Basescu (PMP) and Claudiu Manda (PSD) will work in the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs and Security and Defense Committees, while Maria Grapini (PSD) will work in Constitutional Affairs Committee, and Carmen Avram (PSD) in the…

The most recent CURS survey, of Omnibus type, conducted in Bucharest, reveals that President Klaus Iohannis enjoys most confidence and mayor general Gabriela Firea is affected by the fact that she is social-democrat. The survey reads…