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🇺🇦🇧🇬 Ukraine signed a 10-year defence agreement with Bulgaria, a major arms and ammo manufacturer, covering production of drones and other weapons.

According to government data, nearly 4% of Bulgaria's GDP comes from the defence industry, which has thrived since Russia started the war in Ukraine in 2022.

The arms deal with Bulgaria follows other agreements Ukraine signed with the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar during Zelensky's recent tour to the Gulf states.
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🟨📉The most recent intention poll shows AUR dropped to 33%.

CURS, the agency that conducted the poll, usually had AUR stagnating at 35%, while giving SOS 5% and POT 2%. Now, the entire sovereigntist pole went from 43% to 40%.

It also seems that the parliamentary parties, both in coalition and opposition, only have 94% of voting intentions, leaving 6% to other parties. This makes me speculate where votes have been migrating to, for the last two months:

AUR (-): AUR's lost votes are likely going to SOS, or back to PSD, since they have been very hostile to them in the recent weeks (PSD voters are mostly elders, who are socially conservative and view AUR as the second best option after the social-democrats).

PSD (+): The only party in the coalition that gained popularity is likely getting their support back from those who drifted towards AUR.

PNL (-): The National Liberal Party's disappointed supporters probably have no other choice, and can only nullify their voice by not voting at all. It's popularity dropped in the last two months, but is overall doing better than how it started after the 2024 elections.

USR (-): The disappointed progressives are definetly migrating to SENS. This is worrying.

UDMR (±): Magyars are always going to vote the same, so it is obvious that they are always going to be at 5-6%.

SOS (-): Șoșoacă's party is fully reliant on Romanians who don't see AUR as 'enough', but are still scared that their votes might be wasted if they don't pass the electoral threshold in 2028.

POT (+): I don't know why these guys are still trying. My guess is that Gavrilă wants to negotiate a few seats for her colleagues on the AUR electoral lists, and until then are still going to campaign for a bit of support.


I think that this should be a wake-up call for George Simion and other political leaders on the right to play their cards right if they want to secure a majority in the next elections. Otherwise, we are slowly going back to the 35% sovereigntist votes we had in 2024.

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—Dear Friends, I'm extremely busy these days at a personal level. Not a big deal, but if you see a decline in the number of posts, it's because of that, and it's temporary.
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#NEWS | 🇺🇦 🇹🇷 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to visit Türkiye today to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Istanbul.

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🇹🇷 JUST IN: Turkey has liquidated 120 tons of gold worth nearly $20 billion in just 3 weeks to defend the lira, with Erdogan offloading 70 tons last week alone, burning through 6 years of accumulated reserves.

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✝️ We wish a blessed Easter Sunday to all our Catholic friends!
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🇲🇩/🇷🇴 Moldovan Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu:

Our citizens on both sides of the Prut River are increasingly aware that we are very close to unification.


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🇧🇦 NEW: Bosnian media report that High Representative Christian Schmidt is expected to leave his post after the October 2026 general elections, citing retirement plans.

➡️ The Office of the High Representative would continue to operate.

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🇭🇷 NEW: Consumer prices in Croatia rose 4.8% year-on-year in March, according to preliminary data from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics.

➡️ This marked the highest inflation rate in the euro area that month, Eurostat figures show.

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⚖️🇷🇴🇷🇴 #BREAKING Călin Georgescu's judiciary control was lifted, meaning he can leave the country anytime.

He was initially put under judiciary control right after the presidential elections in may 2025, when he quoted Corneliu Zelea Codreanu on live television:

"He, who fights even alone, for God and his Country, will never be defeated."


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❗️🇺🇸/🇷🇸 NEW: Donald Trump Jr, son of U.S. President Donald Trump, is expected to arrive in Banja Luka on Tuesday for meetings with the leadership of Republika Srpska, according to Bosnian media reports confirmed by local outlets.

➡️ Local authorities plan heightened security and traffic restrictions in the city during the visit, which regional media say will focus on political contacts and potential investment opportunities.

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🇷🇸 FACT: On 6 April 1941, Nazi Germany launched a devastating air assault on Belgrade on Orthodox Easter, killing thousands and destroying much of the city’s center during the opening phase of the invasion of Yugoslavia.

➡️ Among the targets was the National Library of Serbia, which burned to the ground with its entire collection, erasing a large part of Serbia’s written cultural heritage.

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❗️🇷🇸 URGENT: Serbian security forces say they have discovered explosives of “devastating power” near the Balkan Stream/TurkStream gas pipeline in northern Serbia, a key route carrying Russian gas to Serbia and onward to Hungary.

➡️ Two backpacks containing explosive packages with detonators were reportedly located a few hundred meters from the pipeline near Kanjiža, prompting heightened security measures and a joint investigation with Hungarian authorities after PM Viktor Orbán was informed.

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❗️🇷🇸 URGENT: Serbian security forces say they have discovered explosives of “devastating power” near the Balkan Stream/TurkStream gas pipeline in northern Serbia, a key route carrying Russian gas to Serbia and onward to Hungary. ➡️ Two backpacks containing…
❗️🇷🇸/🇺🇦/🇭🇺 UPDATE: Serbia’s military intelligence chief says Ukraine was not involved in an alleged explosives plot near a key gas pipeline to Hungary, contradicting earlier suggestions from Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán.

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🇪🇺 NEW: European tech firms including IONOS, Nextcloud, Eurostack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian and BTactic have launched Euro-Office, a fully open-source, Microsoft-compatible office suite positioned as Europe’s “sovereign” alternative for documents, spreadsheets and presentations, with a first stable release planned for summer 2026.

➡️ The initiative targets public administrations, education and enterprises seeking to keep governance and data under European jurisdiction and reduce dependence on US cloud providers.

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