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Over a thousand young people and students took to the streets in Bucharest’s University Square on Thursday, November 28, marking the fourth consecutive day of protests against far-right independent candidate Călin Georgescu, who took the first spot in the first round of the presidential elections. While previous protests were directed solely against Călin Georgescu, the chants…

More than 3,300 Romanians have used the #nofake reporting mechanism, launched by the Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Digitalization (MCID) in May 2024, to flag inappropriate content on social media platforms. Designed to address issues like deepfakes, scams, election-related misinformation, and hate speech, #nofake acted as an intermediary, forwarding reports from Romanian citizens to platforms…

The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) validated in its Thursday meeting, November 28, the results of the referendum organized in Bucharest on November 24, the same day as the first round of the presidential elections. Voter turnout exceeded the required threshold for all three questions. The referendum was initiated by general mayor Nicuşor Dan and focused…

Several private sector associations in Romania have issued an unprecedented statement urging political parties to keep the country firmly on its pro-European and trans-Atlantic trajectory, established after the fall of communism in 1989. The associations noted the critical importance of the business sector when it comes to Romania’s integration into the European Union and the…

Prime minister Marcel Ciolacu, the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who ranked third in the first round of the presidential elections, announced that he is withdrawing from the race regardless of the result of the vote recount that might bring him the second place and a spot in the final round. He…

The short-form video-sharing company TikTok, in an official statement sent on November 28 to Agerpres, assured that no evidence of a “covert influence operation” has been found on the platform in recent weeks related to the presidential elections in Romania, nor proof of foreign influence. “Although some claimed the existence of 5,000 fake accounts related…

Romania’s Supreme Country Defense Council (CSAT) summoned on November 28 announced that “cyber attacks with the aim of influencing the correctness of the electoral process” took place and, separately, that “a candidate for the presidential elections benefited from a massive exposure due to the preferential treatment that the TikTok platform granted him by not marking…

Romania’s Electoral Bureau (BEC) announced it would observe the Constitutional Court’s decision to recount the votes from the first round of the presidential elections but said that the updated bulletins from the voting polls would not be centralised sooner than December 1 at 22:00 (by email) or December 3 at 16:00 (in physical format).  This…

Romanians will vote on December 1 in the parliamentary elections, held amid unprecedented political turmoil caused by the overlapping with the presidential elections where the Constitutional Court called the recount of votes, and the Defense Council accused “cyberattack” and preferential treatment given by TikTok to the unexpectedly leading far-right candidate Calin Georgescu. A last poll…

OMV Petrom, the largest integrated energy producer in Southeastern Europe, announced a strategic partnership with NewMed Energy Balkan, a subsidiary of NewMed Energy, to advance exploration efforts in the Han Asparuh offshore block in Bulgaria.  NewMed Energy is Israel’s leading energy partnership in the exploration, development, production, and sale of natural gas and condensate.  The…