Tag: Romania

The German Air Force will be involved in protecting the south-eastern flank of NATO with Eurofighter aircraft starting at the end of the month, writes German news agency DPA. A preliminary deployment was due to take off for Romania on Thursday, security sources told dpa in Berlin. The plan is to send four Eurofighters and around 80 soldiers, who will take...

30 years jubilee of the Army – central event, August 2022 Photo: mod.gov.mk The post is spreading disinformation that Macedonian troops will be deployed to fight against the Russian Armed Forces in Pridnestrovye. The claim that our troops, instead of leaving for Romania, will depart for Moldova – that is not a NATO Member-State – is not substantiated with evidence...

The post we fact-checked is falsely claiming that the EU has banned the imports of wheat from Ukraine in some Member-States. On the contrary, the EU opposed the unilateral decisions of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria to temporarily ban the import of grain from Ukraine in order to protect their own farmers once a mutually acceptable agreement on...

While disinformation campaigns flood Central and Eastern Europe, civil society organizations are at the forefront of initiatives to face this challenge. Meta.mk spoke to Ina Danila, Project Manager at Funky Citizens, a Romanian organization working on fact-checking and disinformation resilience, about the current situation in Romania within the regional context. Disinformation is a worldwide threat to democratic societies. North Macedonia...

Russia’s request for the withdrawal of NATO forces (foreign troops, weapons and equipment) is not only for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe but for all countries that were not members of NATO in the period before 1997. The security guarantees that Russia is seeking from NATO also apply to Romania and Bulgaria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov...

The Macedonian government should stop with the irredentism and the rhetoric about being the only descendants of ancient Macedonians, to make substantial steps forwards and to find a mutually acceptable solution, said the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during his stay in Belgrade. He said if the necessary steps are done, the following year can bring a positive development...

The Special Prosecutor’s Office are conducting a “political and media circus”, said Silvana Boneva on Monday, a VMRO-DPMNE representative, who sits on the State Election Commission (SEC) while she was leaving the SPO building. Boneva alluded to news crews who were waiting outside the SPO building, that this was her interpretation of why there so many from the media...