{"id":4177,"date":"2025-03-17T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2025-03-17T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T08:00:26","slug":"romania-needs-no-european-nuclear-protection-presidential-adviser-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4177","title":{"rendered":"Romania needs no European nuclear protection, presidential adviser says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is no question of a nuclear dome over Romania,&#8221; presidential adviser and former foreign minister <strong>Cristian Diaconescu<\/strong> said, commenting on the scenarios circulated about France using its nuclear umbrella to protect a larger part of the continent against the Russian threat, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digi24.ro\/stiri\/actualitate\/cristian-diaconescu-despre-extinderea-umbrelei-nucleare-in-ue-nu-se-pune-problema-unei-cupole-nucleare-privind-romania-3160301?mc_cid=7a5dd05111&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">Digi24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>French president Emmanuel Macron, quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20250306-macron-will-discuss-extending-french-nuclear-protection-to-europe-with-allies-ukraine-russia-usa\" target=\"_blank\">France24<\/a>, announced in early March, reiterating an older idea, that he will discuss with European allies the possibility of using France&#8217;s nuclear deterrent to protect the continent from Russian threats, amid concerns over potential US disengagement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have made our assessments in terms of security guarantees, they are sufficient. There is no question of a nuclear dome regarding Romania,&#8221; Diaconescu stated.<\/p>\n<p>In separate news, the president of Poland, Andrzej Duda, has repeated his call for the US to base nuclear weapons on Polish soil, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce98ym8k89do\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Romania&#8217;s presidential adviser Diaconescu, however, said that &#8220;we don&#8217;t need&#8221; another major security filter coming from a major European power, namely France.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not my position, it is a decision taken institutionally,&#8221; declared the presidential advisor for defense and national security.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/Octav Ganea)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is no question of a nuclear dome over Romania,&#8221; presidential adviser and former foreign minister Cristian Diaconescu said, commenting on the scenarios circulated about France using its nuclear umbrella to protect a larger part of the continent against the Russian threat, according to Digi24. French president Emmanuel Macron, quoted by France24, announced in early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}