Eu as vrea sa vad o inregistrare cu domnul presedinte Calin Georgescu cand vorbea la ONU si nu era asstat social ca acum.
Sa vorbeasca in fata lumii, asa cum a vorbit Oana Toiu.
Poland, Baltic states, now Romania. More and more Russian provocations. Yesterday the former president @MedvedevRussiaE said that the peaceful sleep of the EU citizens is over. Everyone in NATO should finally start taking these facts and words seriously.
Profesorul Armand Goșu, despre decizia României de închidere a Consulatului General al Rusiei 🇷🇺 de la Constanța:
📌"Să fie clar, prin închiderea Consulatului de la Constanța, Rusia primește o lovitură teribilă. Amenințarea cu o ripostă în oglindă e mai degrabă amuzantă, deoarece consulatele României la Rostov pe Don și Petersburg n-au nici o importanță pentru România, nici politic, nici economic, nici militar, nici pe zona de intelligence."
📍"Cred că închiderea Consulatului General de la Constanța a fost sugerată de aliați. N-am absolut nici o informație concretă, sigură, certă. Dar nici președintele nu avea, ceea ce nu l-a împiedică să spună că ucrainenii au tras un Gheran care a fost deviat astfel spre Galați.
📍Am fost foarte mirat să aflu că încă funcționează consulatul de la Constanța. Credeam că a fost închis, din cauza locației lui. Nu cred că trebuie să conving pe nimeni de faptul că era un punct de spionaj rusesc într-o zonă foarte, foarte sensibilă. Care a devenit și mai sensibilă odată cu războiul din Iran, de la Baza Kogălniceanu plecând avioane de alimentare pentru flotila aeriană americană care operează în Orientul Mijlociu.
📍Consulatul de la Constanța a fost mereu o bază de spionaj rusesc, pentru cei familiarizați cu organizarea acestuia, una dintre cele trei rețele de spionaj de la sfârșitul secolului al XIX-lea era coordonată de aici. Rușii au avut mereu mai multe rețele, independente una de cealaltă. Care nu comunicau, nu se cunoșteau, dar care se aflau într-o acerbă competiție. Cum probabil că se întâmplă și astăzi."
I am deeply concerned by the escalation in public statements between transatlantic partners and allies regarding recent developments.
We have to resume talking directly to each other, at the appropriate diplomatic levels.
Last night's failure to agree on giving Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine was a bad look for the EU.
But the Plan B that they came up with, #EurobondsForUkraine, could actually be better because:
1⃣Money arrives faster
2⃣It's legally unquestionable
3⃣It can be done again
“Oh my god… I have no words.”
Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was announced to the world.
#NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize
How to think about Europe in the age of Trump, Vance, Bannon … and Putin? How to act?
🇺🇸 MAGA thinkers want to destroy the world order built by the US 1945-1955. They define FDR as traitor, George Marshall as an enemy, the UN as “globalists” and NATO as a trap.
They now rule in DC.
🇬🇧 Farage wants to destroy the institutions inspire by Churchill and built by Bevin in 1949-1950: the Council of Europe, the European Convention on Human Rights, the Refugee Convention. Get 🇬🇧 out, then join MAGA-US.
On current trends he will succeed.
🇩🇪 Far-right AfD wants to destroy the Europe built by Adenauer, Schuman, Jean Monnet: The “EU has to die for Europe to live”, Putin, not Ukraine/Baltics/Poland, are Germany’s allies. No Euro, no Schengen, no European courts; a Germany unleashed. That its neighbors will fear.
Afd is doing better than ever.
🇷🇺 Putin wants to attack a democratic Europe abandoned by the US and weakened by extremists like Höckes AfD from within. He has a plan.
It is only 🇺🇦 that stops him now.
Too few democrats understand fully what is at stake NOW. How big the risk is. How strategic and focused their foes are.
If they would, they would act very differently now. They still have power and a mandate. In the UK. In the EU. In Berlin:
- turn into a true “arsenal for democracy” for Ukraine, like the US did for the UK 1940. Really integrate 🇺🇦🇲🇩 now.
- Regard Baltics like West Berlin was during the Cold War: the crucial region where credibility is tested and deterrence must work. Deploy far more troops there to deter now.
- Defend boldly and with imagination the triad of institutions that underlie the European miracle: the EU, NATO, the ECHR.
Fight the battle of ideas. It is also a battle of stories.
(That is why we wrote “Which Europe do we need?” about the European miracle of democratic peace and its mortal enemies. @FrancescaKnaus)
This is an emergency. We must act as if it is one.
@RoryStewartUK@campbellclaret@fromTGA@MichaelOThumann@joerglau@GLandsbergis@KubiliusA@IlvesToomas@AussenMinDE@_FriedrichMerz
Macron: Russia is a predator, an ogre at our door. For its survival, it must continue to feed.
A country that spends 40% of its budget on arms and has mobilized over 1.3 million troops will not return overnight to peace and democracy. 1/
President Stubb about the amount of Ukrainian territory Russia wants:
I guess, for an American audience, and having studied in the US for many years, the best way to explain it is that if you take the relative land mass of what Russia wants right now from Ukraine, it would be a little bit like you giving up Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, even Virginia, and then bumping into Maryland.
MEET ICC’S PRE-TRIAL JUDGES
The International Criminal Court (ICC) released the pre-trial chamber I judges who issued the warrant of arrest against former president Rodrigo Duterte.
Romanian judge Iulia Antoanella Motoc will lead the investigation as the presiding judge. Joining her are judges Reine Adélaïde Sophie Alapini-Gansou and María del Socorro Flores Liera.
Duterte, who is turning 80 on March 28, 2025, could become the first Asian former head of state to go on trial at the ICC.
He was charged with the crime of murder as a crime against humanity and bore criminal responsibility for the alleged murder of at least 43 people between 2011 and 2019.
China’s U.S. Embassy Hits Back at Trump’s New Tariff Plans 🇨🇳🇺🇸
China has issued a strongly worded response to the Trump administration’s announcement of new tariffs, warning of a full-scale economic confrontation (Bloomberg).
💬 “If war is what the U.S. wants—be it a tariff war, trade war, or any other kind—we are prepared to fight until the end.” – Chinese Embassy in Washington.
🔹 The statement signals China’s readiness for economic retaliation, as tensions between the world’s two largest economies escalate once again.