{"id":112774,"date":"2025-05-18T22:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T22:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/112774\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T22:16:09","slug":"tate-bro-tears-and-eu-delight-as-dan-beats-right-winger-in-romanias-election-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/112774\/","title":{"rendered":"Tate bro tears and EU delight as Dan beats right-winger in Romania\u2019s election \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan beat ultranationalist candidate George Simion to win the election, as the hard-right candidate cozied up to U.S. President Donald Trump, ripping pages from his MAGA agenda, while threatening to stop military support for Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations Nicu\u0219or Dan! Long live free Romania,\u201d exulted center-right Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose party candidate also won a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/rafal-trzaskowski-warsaw-mayor-narrow-win-poland-presidential-election-runoff-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narrow election victory Sunday night in Poland<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was also thrilled by the outcome, as Dan promises to keep Romania on its pro-EU, pro-NATO pathway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Ukraine \u2014 as a neighbour and friend \u2014 it is important to have Romania as a reliable partner. And we are confident we will. By working together, we can strengthen both our countries and our Europe,\u201d Zelenskyy said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to further developing the strategic partnership between our friendly nations for the sake of their stability, security, and prosperity,\u201d Zelenskyy added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations, dear Nicu\u0219or Dan, on being elected President of Romania! Moldova and Romania stand together, supporting one another and working side by side for a peaceful, democratic, and European future for all our citizens,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sandumaiamd\/status\/1924209153922208107?s=46&amp;t=G6D1OoYklEVF3UCZEqHT9A\" target=\"_blank\">said Moldovan President Maia Sandu<\/a>, whose country has been at loggerheads with the irredentist Simion for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan beat ultranationalist candidate George Simion to win the election, as the hard-right candidate cozied up to U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5898,2000,299,5187,1699,33113,51099,13491,36829,1438,37994,35564,48510,657,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-112774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-donald-tusk","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-george-simion","14":"tag-maia-sandu","15":"tag-moldova","16":"tag-nicusor-dan","17":"tag-romania","18":"tag-romanian-elections-2024","19":"tag-romanian-politics","20":"tag-romanian-presidential-election-2025","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114531151652244348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}