🇪🇺🇷🇴Romania is the country in the EU with the biggest state budget deficit

🇷🇴🛣 Brașov-Bacău highway plans will need to be changed due to a landing strip being built for the testing of military drones

🇺🇸- USAID to be folded into the State Department

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 - US pressuring Ukraine to accept Crimea as Russian in peace deal

🇺🇦 🇷🇺- Zelensky remains defiant, says Ukraine will not recognize Crimea as Russian

🇺🇸- Trump to visit Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar in May

🇺🇦 🇨🇳- Ukraine summons Chinese ambassador in Kiev to the Foreign Ministry over alleged Russo-Chinese defense cooperation

🇬🇧 UK to restart the Challenger 3 MBT project. It's aimed to be a very modern tank in line with current NATO standards (if you're interested in such subjects, you know that the Challenger 2 is rather lacking in capacities and has been lacking for many years even before the war), however many are skeptical due to the project being cancelled and revived several times

🇬🇧 British Ministry of Defence announces that it has successfully followed and destroyed a drone swarm during a test with new microwaves-based weapons system aimed at combating drones

Click here for the video posted by the MoD

🇺🇸🇨🇳According to Forbes, US drone manufacturers are facing issues due to lack of necessary components. The shortage comes as an effect as the trade war between the US and China

🇨🇭❌🇺🇸 Swiss Socialist and Green parties made a petition requesting the government to stop purchase of US F-35s

🌎- Klaus Schwab under investigation by the WEF after a whistleblower accused him and his wife of financial and ethical misconduct

🇺🇸- Mayor-elect of Oakland, Barbara Lee, calls for a $50/hour minimum wage

🇷🇴 A law propoasal that would raise the retirement from 48 to 65 and lower the (very high) pensions of judges etc in Romania has been adopted by the parliamentary comissions and is waiting to be voted by the chamber of deputies soon! All these modifications would apply from January 1st 2026

This would be huge considering it's been a very discusses topic in Romania, many people being angry at the judges for their very high pensions when other people can barely afford a living. Politicians always promised to change this but it never happened due to obvious connections and blackmailing between judges and politicians