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Mihăiță Baston

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Another opportunity to pitch my Warhammer vs Deep Space Nine paradigm of the future of European politics www.worldpoliticsreview.com/europe-far-r...
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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This morning I am going to post a full translation of the Manifesto of the party of former army general Vannacci: Futuro Nazionale. As one does on a Sunday. FN is challenging Meloni and her coalition by attracting the support of the most radical among their supporters. It can cost her the elections
Leader of Futuro Nazionale, Roberto Vannacci, with television anchor Bruno Vespa.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This ⬇️ does make me smile. Coming from France 24. In its rhetorical distance from capitalism, Die Linke is arguably "radical". But in terms of actual magnitude of the concrete economic transformation being proposed, Mitterrand would have made Die Linke blush.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Also fascinating how this sort of migration can circle back and influence political thought in the home country. We are only beginning to understand how Romanians in exile throughout the Cold War preserved and transmitted far-right ideas and tropes which were re-imported in Romania after 1989.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remembering that classic masterpiece of the '20s: "Siegfried Mureșan seeking confidence vote".
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I've said it and I will say it again: a scenario, in the near future, in which AUR manages to secure a simple majority in parliament by itself should not be excluded.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Details are starting to emerge about the future "Donald Trump Park" in Bucharest, Romania. My thoughts: all "Dracula Park" projects in Romania failed to materialize. District mayor Daniel Băluță might just get his "Renfield Park" built. hotnews.ro/imi-este-gre...
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„Îmi este greu să înțeleg”. 3 experți s-au uitat la imaginile cu „Parcul Donald Trump” prezentate de primarul Băluță și au ajuns la aceeași concluzie  - HotNews.ro
În imaginile de promovare, Parcul Donald Trump promis de primarul sectorului 4, Daniel Băluță, apare amplasat într-o mare de copaci în care, pe patru hectare,
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A few thoughts on why the recent appointment of Sorina Matei as interim president of the board of TVR (Romanian Television) is disturbing and meaningful for the rise of the far-right in Romania. Matei was nominated by AUR (far-right). 1/ stirileprotv.ro/troc-politic...
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”Troc politic”: AUR a preluat conducerea televiziunii naționale, PSD primește radioul public. Riscul uriaș sesizat de PNL - Știrile ProTV
”Troc politic”: AUR a preluat conducerea televiziunii naționale, PSD primește radioul public. Riscul uriaș sesizat de PNL
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A very interesting post by William Totok on #AFD ideologue Hans-Thomas Tillschneider. Important context: Totok is a Romanian-born German ethnic from Banat, like Tillschneider. Totok, a writer and Ceaușescu-era dissident has spent the past decades denouncing the far-right.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The situation of the metropolitan seat of Bukovina between May 1940 and March 1941 is fascinating. King Carol II basically forced Visarion Puiu to resign because of his pro-German and pro-Iron Guard position and Simedrea was brought in to replace him. When the National Legionary State was... 1/
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Galofré-Vilà and Meissner use city-level and state-level analysis to see how austerity policies in the Weimar Republic fueled the rise of the Nazi Party. Excellent research and food for thought now that the '30s are almost upon us. www.nber.org/papers/w24106
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Austerity and the Rise of the Nazi party
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“If Ulrich Siegmund is the presentable candidate who sells the party’s agenda to the public, Hans-Thomas Tillshneider is more of the mastermind of this campaign” "The politician was born in 1978 in Timisoara, Romania..."😞 www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
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Germany: Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, the ideologist behind the AFD’s plans in Saxony-Anhalt
The far-right German political party Alternative for Germany could win a historical victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt in key elections this Sunday. The party’s agenda is more radical than…
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm reading Sanda Stolojan's diaries again. She ranks among the most democratic-minded Romanian Cold War exiles and yet paragraphs like this one, about Paul Celan, whose parents were murdered by Antonescu's pro-Nazi government, are hard to stomach.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A few quick thoughts on the recent investigation by Romanian journalists from Recorder. It was revealed that general Lucian-Silvan Pahonțu, who has been leading one of the country's intelligence services for the past eleven years, was, likely, directly involved in... 1/ recorder.ro/biografia-as...
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Biografia ascunsă a generalului Pahonțu: a făcut parte din trupele de represiune ale lui Ceaușescu și a participat la masacrul din 21 decembrie 1989
Cel mai influent și mai longeviv șef de serviciu secret din România rezistă de peste 20 de ani la vârful statului român, reușind să-și cosmetizeze CV-ul și să
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some screenshots from the FB profile of Moldova's soon-to-be government minister, libertarian Claudiu Năsui. We got the Babylon Bee, Elon Musk, Turning point USA, and, this one is priceless, PragerU. What can go wrong when this guy is a member of your executive?
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/08/2026
'The far right's current success in claiming the heritage of Charles de Gaulle should serve as a warning'
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'The far right's current success in claiming the heritage of Charles de Gaulle should serve as a warning'
With eight months to go before the presidential election, and as Charles de Gaulle is celebrated on the big screen, documentary filmmaker Jonathan Hayoun observes the general's memory has become a legacy to be claimed and warns against letting the far right seize it to rewrite its own history.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Mihnea taking a harsher stance on Moldova than yours truly is kind of unexpected.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One of the most toxic characters of Romanian politics, libertarian guru Claudiu Năsui, might join Moldovan government. 1/ hotnews.ro/claudiu-nasu...
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Claudiu Năsui, deputat USR, propus ministru în guvernul de la Chișinău. Argumentele premierului moldovean - HotNews.ro
Premierul moldovean Vasile Tofan a spus marți, într-un mesaj pe rețelele sociale, că prioritățile lui Năsui vor fi debirocratizarea aparatului de stat,
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
May 1978. Emil Cioran shares his thoughts on Jewish history in private conversation with Sanda Stolojan. Cioran traces the origins of the "hatred between Jews and Christian" to the times of Roman persecutions when Jews allegedly denounced Christians. He then fast-forwards to the Holocaust... 1/
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"legitimate concerns" Romanian edition™
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Cristian Pîrvulescu's oped in Le Monde pretty much spells out what I think of Mungiu and his work. 1/ www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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« Fjord », Palme d’or 2026 : « Cristian Mungiu prête le prestige du cinéma au registre de la lutte contre le politiquement correct »
TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », le politiste roumain Cristian Pirvulescu estime qu’en choisissant une fois de plus un sujet très clivant politiquement, tout en refusant d’en tirer un verdict m...
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Libertarian hip-hop. Former PNL mayor of Timișoara, Romania, uses AI to write a song about a destitute child who grows up to be a wealthy philanthropist and preaches: "poverty is only a test".
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Facebook wall of a far-right Romanian mouthpiece⬇️. What makes this one special is that he was the campaign manager of the allegedly "centrist" presidential candidate Elena Lasconi, running for the allegedly "centrist" USR. Now, try explaining Romanian politics to a Western European audience.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I always tend to link this debate to the much narrower question: "was Heinrich Brüning responsible for the demise of the Weimar Republic and if so to what extent?".
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Interesting. The outliers are particularly interesting...
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania published its yearly report on antisemitism, holocaust denial, public celebration of war criminals (see link⬇️; full report in Romanian at the bottom of the page). 1/ www.inshr-ew.ro/raport-de-mo...
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Raport de monitorizare: antisemitism și negarea Holocaustului în anul electoral 2025-2026 – INSHR
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Lupu was intensively used as propaganda props by Romanian fascists. Fun-fact, as of today, 6 August 2026, the 🇷🇴 wikipedia article on Lupu cites articles published in the far-right periodicals of the 1930s as valid sources. Prominent fascist theorist Nichifor Crainic is used as a valid reference.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Take a look at this⬇️ map then learn that Romanian president Nicușor Dan signed, along with other EU leaders, the letter criticizing Sánchez over migration policy. Green-shirt boy wonder probably fails to realize how ridiculous he is.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In this 🧵 we will examine in detail some of the claims made by Romanian Nicușor Dan in an op-ed published in the far-right 🇺🇸 outlet Newsmax. We will specifically look at the infiltrators paradropped by Western intelligence services in communist Romania (1951-53) and the fascist or even Nazi... 1/
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 29/07/2026
They are experienced fascist organisers turning up on the ground for Restore. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/07/28/m...
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Meet the fascists supporting Restore Britain in the Manchester mayoral race – HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate exposes yet more fascists within Restore Britain, this time campaigning in Greater Manchester ahead of the mayoral election on Thursday. This includes...
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A textbook case of Holocaust erasure in public discourse. "The difficulties specific to the interwar period", i.e. the country embracing fascism, passing antisemitic legislation, becoming a Nazi-ally and murdering 280 000 - 380 000 Jews and 11 000 Roma during WW2.
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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#OTD 85 years ago, the Romanian authorities established the Chişinău Ghetto. While many local Jews had feld, Jews on the roads & from nearby towns who survived massacres were gathered into the historic Jewish neighborhood, soon totaling over 11,000 people.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
#Romania President Dan seems to be crafting a MAGA-franchise executive headed by Trump fan-boy Eugen Tomac, who has been officially nominated for the premiership. Rumor has it that... conservative (*cough* *cough*) academic Adrian Papahagi might be the next minister of culture.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Romania 2026. AUR leader George Simion (far-right) shares a post by USR libertarian guru and former economy minister Claudiu Năsui. Năsui was celebrating tax-cuts initiated and/or supported by AUR. Oh, well, surely the Zentrumspartei must be on the right side of history...
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Romania's most prestigious award for an original theater play went to Mihaela Michailov's "At dawn the light is harsher". The play, overtly anti-fascist, is focused on Olga Bancic, a Romanian Jew who fought in the communist branch of the French resistance. www.bucurestifm.ro/2026/05/26/c...
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Câștigătorii Premiilor UNITER 2026 - Radio Bucuresti FM - Radio Muzica Live Online - Stiri Bucuresti
Aseară, a avut loc Gala Premiilor UNITER, Ediția 34, la Teatrul Odeon. Au fost decernate premiile pentru anul teatral 2025. În urma nominalizărilor, au fost acordate 16 premii, alături de premii speci...
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Why would a public university in Europe operate a "Center for Global Studies" under a partnership with the Heritage Foundation? I don't know, but we can always ask the University of Sibiu, Romania.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I should NOT find this funny but Romanian politics is the kind of tragic farce you can't stop laughing at. So there's rumor that president Dan is pushing for his councilor, MEP Eugen Tomac, to take over as PM. Tomac comes from the evangelical right and was for many years a TRUMP fanboy who... 1/
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Neofascists march with tiki torches in downtown Bucharest, Romania. Also on display: flags and portraits of Iron Guard members, officials of the pro-Nazi Antonescu government and other paraphernalia. The march was approved by the City Hall, May 14th is a remembrance day for political prisoners.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Musings of a (former) fascist. Nov 1982. Emil Cioran explains, in a private conversation, the rise to prominence of the English language: " [...] the English colonized North America and the Indies - while the French colonized the cannibals". (Entry in Sanda Stolojan's diary).
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Romanian far-right clowns at the court of the Ugandan dictator. The one on the left, with the shades is Mihail Neamțu, chairman of the House committee for culture. The one the right is a former general, naturalized French citizen and... *check notes* Freemason.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Consistently polling in the 24% - 27% range.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The most popular international leader in Romania is... 🥁 Emmanuel Macron. To be taken with a grain of salt because, overall, 32.9% trust him v. 53.3% who don't trust him...
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
A must read, Jakub Mirowski's "Landfill Land" focuses on Europe's "largest waste-related ghetto", Pata-Rât near Cluj-Napoca, Romania. balkaninsight.com/2026/03/11/l...
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Landfill Land: Romania Is Still Struggling to Manage Its Waste
Since joining the EU in 2007, Romanians might’ve expected the country to have cleaned up its waste management practices by now. Yet it still relies on landfills, ranks last in recycling rates, and is ...
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Under the guise of honest criticism Romanian president Nicușor Dan is discretely fueling an anti-EU discourse. At the end of a rather bland and unimaginative May 9th speech Dan indulged in a bit of "objective criticism" which is little more than a tissue... 1/ www.digi24.ro/stiri/actual...
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Mesajul președintelui Nicușor Dan cu ocazia Zilei Europei: Pentru România, 20 de ani de UE au însemnat modernizare
Președintele Nicușor Dan susține, de la ora 11:00, o declarație, în direct de la Palatul Cotroceni, cu ocazia Zilei Europei.
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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🇵🇱⚖️Polish rule of law crisis latest - out of the complete blue, ECtHR issues an interim measure in the case of four Constitutional Tribunal limbo-judges against Poland, ordering the Polish authorities to make sure these people can sit on the Tribunal. I wasn't ready for this one, honest. 1/
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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The Greek Bar Association may appeal the not-so-subtle attempt of the Supreme Court to shelve the #Predatorgate case. @ec.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu should support the case. greekreporter.com/2026/05/06/a...
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Athens Bar Weighs European Court Appeal Over Greece’s Wiretapping Case Archiving - GreekReporter.com
Athens Bar weighs a European Court appeal after Greece’s top prosecutor declined to reopen the wiretapping case.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
THE lesson from Petér Magyar’s defeat of Viktor Orbán is that, in a competitive authoritarian system, you have to tailor-make your campaign to the gamed political system you operate in. Clearly, the Democrats have still not learned that lesson.
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Frank Elbers @franckelbers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
#Romania: The first fallout from social democrat support for extreme nationalist AUR's no-confidence vote against Bolojan-government. Senator Victoria Stoiciu resigned from PSD: "I cannot and will never support the normalisation of fascism". tvrinfo.ro/senatoarea-v...
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Senatoarea Victoria Stoiciu a demisionat din PSD: „Nu pot și nu voi gira niciodată normalizarea fascismului” - tvrinfo.ro
Victoria Stoiciu a anunțat, într-o postare pe Facebook, că și-a înaintat oficial demisia din Partidul Social Democrat. Decizia vine după ce a refuzat să semneze moțiunea de cenzură împotriva Guvernulu...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 24/04/2026
The political left is disappearing across Central Europe, despite Orban's defeat in Hungary
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The political left is disappearing across Central Europe, despite Orban's defeat in Hungary
Social democrats no longer have any MPs in Hungary, Bulgaria or the Czech Republic; have been pushed into opposition in Slovenia; and are polling at less than 10% in Poland. Often originating from former communist parties, they first lost working-class voters to more nationalist groups, and then, in the 2010s, lost the middle class.
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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
UDMR/RMDSZ representing the Hungarian minority in Romania refuses to join a government which includes AUR or which is backed by AUR in parliament. My comment: this doesn't mean they're willing to topple an executive backed by AUR. adevarul.ro/politica/tan...
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Tanczos Barna spune care sunt „liniile roșii” ale partidului în actuala criză politică: „Acel guvern care va fi susținut de AUR sau în care va intra AUR n-o să aibă în niciun caz miniștri UDMR”
Vicepremierul UDMR Tanczos Barna a explicat, într-un interviu pentru Digi 24, care sunt liniile roșii ale partidului său în contextul actualei crize politice: „acel guvern care va fi susținut de AUR s...
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