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Shock in Romania as hard-right Nato critic Calin Georgescu takes lead in presidential election
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Hungary does matter, Orban is in the news pretty much every week.
No, I'm not. But you seem to ignore what I wrote. As one of the dominos falling into russian hands it does matter, that's what I wrote before. For everything else, it has no impact. You can find that stupid and arrogant as much as you want, but that's the reality.
Apart from geopolitics, there is de facto no connection to Romania.
It's literally your territory. Your political organization. You are a citizen of the EU just as they are. Their elections impact your organizations directly. They impact who writes your laws in Germany.
That's not geopolitics, friend, that's domestic politics for you. The fact that so many Europeans just can't parse this but compulsively follow every detail of US politics is a disease. It's the gangreous abscess of US cultural imperialism and it's doing real damage.
Big echoes of the mid 2010s, having weird conversations with delusional Brits spouting EU misinformation with zero critical sense before Brexit. It's terrifying.
And again: what impact does it have in reality?
How informed do you feel about the re-election here in Germany? How's your opinion on the current situation in Sweden? Could you name the head of state of, say, Belgium?
You're imposing a completely unrealistic expectation on people. Yes, a bit more interest in Eastern Europe would be nice, but it remains a fact that most of it doesn't matter to us all that much.
Well I, for one, am terrified about the collapse of the German coalition, recent regional results an the upcoming outlook. Less up to date on Sweden, beyond the fact that they've been yet another struggling center right regime and the abuse of their crises, and in particular their crime stats, as a far-right propaganda strategy. Of Belgium off the top of my head I can tell you their struggles to form stable governments are legendary (and that this is despite better than average economic performance across the inflation crisis) and that process is very much ongoing.
Now, I don't blame anybody, myself included, for not having a full understanding of the many vectors of EU politics across the Union. That's an impossible task. I do, however, find it horrifying to actively dismiss the relevance of far-right, pro-Russian advances in any Union member as unimportant to one's own interests. Doubly so if the person in question can name more than two US Senators or members of the House.
I don't care that you don't know off the top of your head, I care that you don't want to know and think it's irrelevant. Because it does have a real impact. It impacts Union security, it impacts the power balance in the European Council and, if turned into a trend, will eventually impact the power balance in Parliament.
And again, those matter to you because they literally write laws directly applicable to you. If that doesn't trigger alarm bells for you, then yes, I'm gonna say you're not paying enough attention. You don't need to learn the intricacies of post-communist political alignments, or how typical left-right alignments don't work the same way in that context or the names of everybody involved... but at least I'd expect the news to make your ears perk up and read a report, especially if you're busy doomscrolling individual Trump cabinet appointments at the time.