—NOTE: However, he faces much more severe charges in Romania, where he is accused of treason and espionage for allegedly passing classified documents to the Belarusian KGB in exchange for money—crimes that carry a sentence of over 20 years.

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—🇷🇴 Romania’s only round village quietly fades

➡️ Charlottenburg, Romania’s only circular village founded in 1771 by Danube Swabians in the Banat region, is now down to just 4–5 families, watched over by its last Swabian resident, 88‑year‑old Peter Trimper, as this unique piece of regional heritage slowly vanishes.

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—🇧🇬 FACT: Contrary to popular belief, the Cyrillic alphabet didn't originate in Russia. It was actually developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century!

🔗 Bulgaria

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—🇨🇳/🇷🇸 NEW: Chinese furniture manufacturer JPAI Home is planning a major new investment in Serbia to expand its local production capacity.

➡️ The company, which has operated in Krnjesevci for several years, intends to build a new factory to strengthen its assembly and manufacturing of modern furniture for the European market.

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—🇷🇸/🇺🇸 NEW: Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has issued a strong condemnation of the armed assault targeting Donald Trump, describing political violence as "the epitome of cowardice."

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—❗️🇽🇰/🇷🇸 NEW: Jelena Đukanović has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by a court in Pristina for spying and conspiracy against Kosovo.

➡️ Đukanović, an employee of the OSCE mission in Kosovo, was found guilty of using her position to interfere in crucial reports and sharing classified information with Serbian intelligence agencies.

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—NOTE: Critics and local analysts have raised concerns about the employment practices of these agencies, with some alleging that Serbian nationals often receive priority in hiring, potentially creating a "hub" for espionage activities within Pristina’s borders.

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—🇷🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: Serbia and Israel have held their first-ever strategic dialogue, a milestone announced today by Israeli FM Gideon Sa’ar.

➡️ Sa’ar highlighted the "historic depth" of bilateral relations, describing Serbia as a "reliable ally and a true friend" under the leadership of President Aleksandar Vučić.

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—🇷🇸/🇨🇳 NEW: Serbia is reportedly moving toward the acquisition of the Chinese HQ-9B long-range air defense system, a move seen as filling the gap left after Belgrade abandoned plans for Russian S-300 and S-400 systems due to Western pressure.

🔗 Dunav Intel

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—🇧🇬 NEW: The Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Georgi Kandev, after being selected to continue his duties in Radev’s new government, revealed that he is under external pressure.

➡️ According to him, the plot involves both individuals from the criminal underworld and former high-ranking officials from the Ministry of Interior.

➡️ He also stated that, in anonymous phone calls he received, he was told that fake testimonyes are already being submitted to the Sofia Prosecutor’s Office against him by influential figures, including a businessman known by the nickname “The Potato.”

➡️ Kandev firmly declared that he will not step down, will continue to fulfill his duties, and will not give in to the pressure.

ℹ️ Information reported by our source in Bulgaria.

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🟦❌🧠 Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan suggests a new "political force", in the context of his expected departure from Government.

If what he is saying is meant to be straightforward (a unified pro-EU party, like TISZA in Hungary), this will mean the suicide of the political establishment.

In any European country (except for Hungary, and a few others), the electoral system is straightforward: if you pass the electoral threshold (usually 4-5%), your party gets a number of seats directly proportional with the amount of votes you received in the national elections. This allows for multiple parties to exist, with much better representation in Parliament than in countries like the USA and Hungary (where less than 50% of MPs are elected based on how many people voted for their party).

In their eternal stupidity, progressives saw the pro-EU TISZA party win more than half of Parliament in Hungary and thought this is going to be the formula for defeating sovereigntism in elections.

In a country like Romania, where 100% of MPs are elected based on directly proportional representation, a pro-European party is never going to receive 50% of votes, simply because of internal fighting over policies.

Imagine a common party that both PSD and PNL fused into. Now imagine how much harder it is going to be for politicians to convince both liberals and social-democrats to vote for that party. Social-democrats will refuse to vote, because there are liberals among that party, and liberals will do the same thing, because of the social-democrats. There are hundreds of policies that not all pro-EU voters and influencers will agree on.

In other countries, there is usually 2 or more conservative parties that citizens can vote for, and the more the better. Poland has 4 main conservative parties, with 2 of them being in a common alliance, and that has them at 47% combined voting intention in opinion polls.

AUR is struggling to get back to 40%. Right now, it has 37% in the polls, and would only get 43% if it absorbed all votes from SOS and POT. Most Romanians are not even well familiarised with the SOS party, let alone other extra-parliamentarian parties like ACT and PPR. Therefore, the average Romanian thinks every nationalist is a supporter of AUR, and every supporter of AUR is a nationalist (which is far from true). This makes it easier for propagandists and influencers to avoid a nationalist MP majority in the forseeable future. If someone is convinced that AUR is not the right choice for them, they will not bother looking for another nationalist party to vote for, simply because they are too isolated by the media. Both hardcore AUR influencers and pro-EU influencers are to blame for this.

In 2028, the only way that Romanians will be able to secure a nationalist majority in Parliament is if one of these two things happen:

🔸 Pro-EU forces fuse into one big party, making it easier for nationalist to attack their narrative in campaigns.

🔸 There is going to be more than one or two nationalist parties that voters are familiarized with. This does not simply mean they need to exist on paper. Instead, nationalist intellectuals, elites, those with money and media outlets need to stop alienating anything that isn't strictly AUR.

That being said, as a conservative news aggregator, the Wallachian Gazette team endorses the idea of a single, unified Pro-EU political party.

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