Goodbye, Brits!

This may be the greatest video in internet in history: pic.twitter.com/xhBctRT6Lc
- Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 31, 2020


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NATO Deputy Secretary General, Rose Gottemoeller, inaugurated the new NATO Liaison Office in Moldova today ( Read more... )

In Romanian "UK" is "RU" (Regatul Unit), which is often confusing because RU often also stands for Russia (like in all those bumper stickers or in www.*.ru for example ( Read more... )

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So Ukrainians no longer need to apply for visas to travel to the EU (well, the Schengen part of it), which is viewed as the most substantial victory to date of their recent revolution and it made them very happy, partly because the Russians were saying that this would never happen and that the EU would never deliver on those vague promises. After ( Read more... )

A couple of Britons in London in 1972.


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During our road trip through Transylvania I had to overtake quite a lot of these both during the day and at night. We were told that they would ban them from the roads very soon in Romania because of some EU rules and most horses would be slaughtered then.


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So if Brexit and now the results of the world's most important election were not enough to make Vladimir Putin ecstatic, the world's least important election (I talked about it here) has just ended with the pro-Russian candidate beating the pro-EU candidate solidly (by ten percent of the votes). Igor Dodon (I took a picture of him here) is the ( Read more... )

There is a lot of pro-EU stuff everywhere in Moldova's streets. EU flags are everywhere next to Moldovan flags, etc.

This is what we saw in Orhei, one of Moldova's towns:


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Danish daily Berlingske on Thursday published a rare English-language editorial imploring Britain to "please stay" in the EU, amid fears the eurosceptic Scandinavian country could lose a key ally in Brussels.


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