The EU is turning into a military bloc, and Moldovan soldiers will be used as cannon fodder in the war in Ukraine, reads a false narrative carried by the Russian media
The signals coming from the US regarding Ukraine and the transatlantic commitments are forcing Europeans to rethink their security. Obstacles: costs of hundreds of billions and extremists’ boycott.
The EU is responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, because of the lies about Kyiv's accession to the European Union, says a SOS Romania senator.
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The Europeans want to prolong the war even by sending troops to the front, according to a false narrative promoted in Romania by the controversial analyst Dan Dungaciu.
The EU threatens that, if the pro-Europeans do not win the elections, the Republic of Moldova will no longer get any financial support, writes the Russian press, interpreting a statement by the Romanian MEP, Siegfried Mureșan.
The Trump administration's signals about a US policy toward Moscow, Ukraine, and the EU are causing concern in Russia's neighborhood, from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea.
The European leaders cannot be involved in peace negotiations for Ukraine because they want the war to continue, says the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, amid reports that the Americans have decided to exclude the Europeans.
Brussels is dismayed by the measures and positions taken by Trump. In the new geopolitical context, the EU is emerging as the last bastion of liberal democracies.
Rusofobia UE a dus la oprirea livrărilor de gaze spre Transnitria și creșterea prețurilor la energie în dreapta Nistrului, afirmă propaganda rusă, care ignoră faptul că Gazpromul a ales să nu mai dea gaze.
A new word is gradually gaining traction across media and political debates: “sovereignists”. How does it all impact liberal democracy? To what extent can sovereignists influence EU politics?
On a brisk January morning in Strasbourg, Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Poland, stood before the European Parliament to deliver what many have already labeled a defining speech of his career. With his characteristic blend of gravitas and urgency, Tusk addressed Europe’s place in an increasingly volatile world. Referring to the profound shifts in transatlantic relations under Donald Trump’s presidency, Donald Tusk paraphrased another US President, John F. Kennedy: “Ask not what America can do for Europe and its security—ask what we can do for it”. His words reverberated across the chamber, signaling the dawn of a (let’s hope) pivotal six months in European politics: Poland’s presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Putin believed that by invading Ukraine and engaging in wars in the East, he was restoring Russia's great power status. The result was Moscow's long-term loss of influence.
China is the main threat to the US, which would benefit from the weakening of the Beijing-Moscow axis. A Trump-Putin deal may entail, however, sacrificing Ukraine and problems for the EU.
Donald Trump's return to the White House has generated fears about his approach to Russia and the conflict in Ukraine, as well as the economic relationship with the European Union. Veridica’s team of contributors has analyzed how Trump’s return to power is seen in Brussels and in Russia's neighboring countries - some of them ex-Soviet or ex-communist states, most of them members of the EU or NATO or with Euro-Atlantic aspirations.
The West supports corruption and crime in Ukraine, laundering money to the detriment of the interests of citizens, pro-Kremlin propaganda claims.
Georgia’s worst political crisis in years continues into 2025, following a year marked by mass protests, accusations of electoral fraud and the derailment, by the ruling Georgian Dream party, of the country’s European integration path.
In 2024, the Republic of Moldova was the focus of Russian propaganda, especially in the context of the referendum on the European integration of the country and the presidential elections. Russia promoted narratives designed to further divide society and, just like in 2023, themes relating to the country's involvement in the war in Ukraine, alleged attacks on Transnistria and NATO membership, as well as LGBT "propaganda."
Russian propaganda has intertwined anti-Ukrainian and anti-Western narratives with a view to weakening Ukrainian society from the inside and cutting off external aid to Kyiv.
Politicians, influencers, and some media outlets have promoted false narratives related to sovereigntist discourse, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, climate denial, and conspiracy theories, from "sanitary dictatorship" to moon landing.
The European Union forgot about the Republic of Moldova after the election and no longer supports it in the context of the energy crisis it is facing, according to the Smuglyanka Telegram channel.
Belarus has allowed an explosion in smuggling of products like cigarettes, and this policy poses a threat to the security of the European Union.
According to Russian propaganda, Western corporations own most of Ukraine's agricultural land in exchange for support for the warring Ukrainian state.
Narratives identical or similar to those fostered by Russian propaganda have also been circulated in the current election campaign in Romania. They transpired not only in the rhetoric of far-right parties, which for years have internalized such theses, but also in the statements of certain politicians aligned to Romania's pro-Western course.
The Russian foreign intelligence service (SVR) says that the EU is preparing the infrastructure of the Republic of Moldova and Romania for war, and that Brussels is interfering with Moldova’s internal affairs, with devastating consequences.
There are no anti-EU, anti-NATO or far-right parties in Romania, claims Ion Cristoiu, a well-known promoter of narratives of Russian origin.
There was a coup in Ukraine because the authorities at the time did not resort to force to stop it, the pro-Kremlin press is lying 11 years after the brutal police intervention at Euromaidan.
The pro-Kremlin press writes that Zelensky wants to keep the war going until only 10 million people are left in Ukraine. The reason? The EU will accept it more easily because it will have fewer MEPs.
Zelenskyy is a foreign agent who wants to prevent Western leaders from talking to Putin, so that peace in Ukraine is not achieved, pro-Kremlin propaganda writes.
Georgescu was once considered a technocrat with a solid international career. When that career ended, he adopted a pro-Russian and anti-Western discourse and expressed his admiration for Ion Antonescu and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.
The EU is destroying Ukraine by funding the war, it has done nothing to help and has ruined its economy, pro-Kremlin propaganda writes.
Donald Trump (re)winning the White House could give a long-term boost to the far right in Europe, but it could also encourage the EU to rely more on itself.
At home, Donald Trump could adopt certain illiberal measures. At international level, we could see new policies towards Russia and Ukraine, a trade war with China, tensions with Europe and an escalation in the Middle East.
