Democracy in Southeastern Europe is struggling as Romania becomes the EU’s only “hybrid regime” amid rising ultranationalism, controversial political figures and ongoing protests across the region, all fuelled by Moscow and Washington.
Democracy in Southeastern Europe is struggling as Romania becomes the EU’s only “hybrid regime” amid rising ultranationalism, controversial political figures and ongoing protests across the region, all fuelled by Moscow and Washington.
I don’t like the comparisons here between protesters. The ones we had in Romania, the Georgescu fans, were older and brought in via buses, organized mostly by the AUR party and likely joined by some soccer fan groups. These were anti-democratic protests, more in the spirit of the US 1/6 ones, but much smaller and less violent. The Georgescu fans were very upset that their “online collective” size wasn’t matched by the presence in real space.
Also, the Serbian “students” camping outside the presidency were brought there by the President, to act as cannon fodder against the actual student protests. It’s, to put it mildly, interesting that this outlet either doesn’t know or chooses to ignore that.