🔎3️⃣0️⃣Earlier this week I took part in the policy workshop “Snagov after 30 years”, focused on renewing Romania’s foreign policy consensus.Alongside recognized voices from Romania’s foreign policy and security ecosystem, I got to share my perspective on the opportunity to renew this consensus and the tools through which we can achieve this.I believe that the presidential...

🇷🇴🇪🇺Romania’s Euro-Atlantic dream had a stellar win last night with the victory of Nicușor Dan, the candidate supported by the reformist, pro-EU and pro-NATO forces who crushed the Russophile candidate George Simion.🙏🏻7% was the difference between the two in this historic runoff, after 20% between them following the first round.🔴Nicușor Dan is not only a brilliant...

de Antonia-Laura PupÎn zilele acestea tensionate în care se pune în discuție însăși salvgardarea democrației liberale a României, lipsesc din conversația națională tocmai cele fără de care această concepție rămâne goală de conținut: partidele politice. Personal, socotesc drept iluzorie și contraproductivă orice încercare de modernizare națională care să ignore...

by Antonia Pup On May 4, Romanian citizens will go to the polls to elect their president after the elections held in November 2024 were annulled by the Constitutional Court on the grounds of malign foreign interference. Given that constitutional prerogatives place Romania’s president at the center of the foreign and defense policy ecosystem, the candidates’ visions may provide insights...

Romania’s presidential elections are only🔟 days away! In my latest for Balkan Insight, I argue that diversifying security partnerships with like-minded allies beyond Brussels and Washington is an imperative.The candidates in this year’s presidential election need to introduce this idea into the national conversation – and prepare the Romanian citizens for the inevitable end of a...

🎓📃I am very happy to announce that yesterday I successfully defended my dissertation, “Hedging the Dragon: How Domestic Elites Shape Foreign Policy Toward China.” This marks the completion of my graduate degree in International Security at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po.My thesis investigates how political leaders in Romania, Georgia, and Turkey develop distinct...

Last week at the Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service, the Center for Security Studies and the SSP Student Council hosted over 80 students, faculty, and researchers at our event, “Crosswinds from the Eastern Flank: Assessing the Trump Administration’s Commitment to NATO.”I had a great time delivering the opening remarks and introducing our keynote speaker, the Ambassador...

EU leaders have so far avoided recognizing that the 🇪🇺European Union has its own version of NATO’s “Article 5,” which can make EU membership a security guarantee in itself for Ukraine.Just like NATO’s article 5, the EU’s mutual defense clause has only been tested once in practice. Read more in my latest article:...

It is unclear whether or not U.S. will move forward with divesting TikTok. What yesterday was a crystallized bipartisan consesus on the risks it holds for national security, today seems a policy at the whim of chance. Read my recent article on why the European Union should hold TikTok accountable regardless of what happens in...

Desființarea USAID, concedierea a zeci de ofițeri de informații ai CIA, cruciade împotriva “gangsterilor guvernamentali”, excluderea profesioniștilor din ecosistemul de securitate națională din conversațiile internaționale cu miză mare și bagatelizarea conceptului de expertiză la nivelul guvernului federal – sunt doar câteva din deciziile recente ale administrației Trump...