Romania tries to suppress a far-right surge

In this article, Tony Barber, European Comment Editor at The Financial Times, provides context on the rise of Georgescu, “an anti-establishment candidate portrayed in the western media as an anti-Nato, Russophile extremist", in Romania. “Blaming it on Russian interference and the support that Georgescu generated through the social media platform TikTok is to miss the larger point”. For background on far-right movements in Romania, Barber points to the article by Dragoş Dragoman and Camil Ungureanu ‘The faces of populism in post-communist Romania’, published by the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB).