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After a long time in the making, reviews, rewrites and some passionate debates, my article 'Beyond National Style: The Innovative Thinking and Designs of the Architect Ion Mincu (1852–1912)' is finally out with the journal Art East/Central. phil.muni.cz/journals/index…

@lucasaganronald If we speak about crazy we should ask people in Gaza about that.

Sorry, but it starts to getting crazier and crazier… #LaVuelta25

@lucasaganronald Yes he can. He just needs to really want to do something. A lot of great people have spoken about world injustices, he has a lot of sources to draw inspiration from.

Jonas Vingegaard: “This might be the last time we'll have a stage winner in this Vuelta. It's unpredictable what will happen in the coming days. I hope we can keep racing, because this is the wrong place for them to protest. What do they want from us cyclists? I can't do anything.” 📷: naikefotosport #LaVuelta25

Chatgpt has transformed emails from a minimal expression of someone's personality and background into some boring stereotypical writing!

@lucasaganronald he should not have quite. it is not the first time

Remco Evenepoel: “I have no idea why I feel like this. Having a bad day once in a while is possible. But three bad days in a row isn't something I normally experience. Maybe there's something wrong with my body. We'll investigate and see what happens.” “I basically couldn't do any training. I couldn't handle any intensity. My body just not being good enough this year, it could be anything... I can't pinpoint just one thing.” “I won a stage and was in third place for a long time. Up until today, things were looking pretty good, but today it just didn't work out. I could have easily finished in the gruppetto and continued, but who knows, maybe I'll just ingrain my bad feeling and not race in September either.” (Wielerflits interview) Heal up Remco. 😰🍀 #TDF2025

@cyclingontnt Why did he quit? Was there a reasonable explanation? Not the very unreasonable one that he has to rest to save the season. Because in this case we would reach Paris with 20 riders and Pog would win on Champs Elysee!

A sight no cycling fan wants to see 😢 Remco Evenepoel abandons the Tour de France 💔

@laflammerouge16 Why did he quit? Was there a reasonable explanation? Not the very unreasonable one that he has to rest to save the season. Because in this case we would reach Paris with 20 riders and Pog would win on Champs Elysee!

Probably the last act of Evenepoel in this TDF, making a child happy #TDF2025

@laflammerouge16 @Chris_Breebaart he rested man!

@Chris_Breebaart Pogacar could have closed It alone attacking at 5 to go.

UAE wanted to win the stage up to Superbagneres but relaxed once Kuss was no longer in front. You don't make your domestiques work all day and then not finish the job — unless the 'blacklist' stuff is real, and they didn't want Kuss to win but were okay with Arensman #TDF2025

@EvenepoelRemco @soudalquickstep This did not age well.

Very bad day on the bike but giving up is not in my nature.

@lucasaganronald And it was the best cycling race of the year!

WHAT JUST HAPPENED? An amateur rider Filippo Conca has just won the Italian national champs 🤯

@faustocoppi60 He is too young or too intellectually limited to understand it is better to have solidarity among cyclists especially in things concerning safety! He is already riding the most dangerous sport in the world!

Arnaud De Lie: "If everyone stopped, it would have been hard for Etoile de Besseges to continue as a race. Without bike races, we would need to work in the real world. I didn't even think about it (to stop)." Only De Lie and Veistroffer kept racing from Lotto so I guess it was exclusively their choice to continue. There are 78 riders left in the race tonight. #EDB2025

@bucharestlife Excellent analysis. Too bad I am not on X anymore... :)

An updated version of my briefing on Romania's parliamentary election: Romania faces parliamentary stalemate Parties broadly committed to maintaining Romania’s membership of both the European Union and NATO won a majority of seats in the country’s parliamentary election on December 1, although forming a stable government may prove to be extremely difficult. With almost all votes now counted, between them, the Social Democrats (PSD; 22.15 per cent), Liberals (PNL; 13.33 per cent), Save Romania Union (USR; 12.29) and Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR; 6.39 per cent) took just over 54 per cent of the vote. Parties sceptical of, or outright hostile to the European and NATO projects, the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR; 17.9 per cent), SOS Romania (7.26 per cent) and the Young People’s party (POT; 6.39 per cent) won nearly 32 per cent of the vote. No other parties crossed the five per cent threshold to enter parliament. Bulgarian stalemate The outcome of the vote has already been dubbed a Bulgarian stalemate, given that no feasible coalition appears possible. Bulgaria has held seven parliamentary elections in three years, without ever breaking its own political stalemate. An eighth takes place in the new year. The only two options currently open to the Romanian parties to form a coalition are a pro-European national government made up of the PSD, PNL, USR and UDMR, or a eurosceptic administration including the PSD and extremist parties (AUR, SOS, POT). The first option is unlikely because the de facto leader of the PNL, Ilie Bolojan, last week ruled out governing with the PSD. Having been in coalition with the PSD for the past three years, many within the PNL – including Bolojan – blame its association with the Social Democrats for its poor showing in both yesterday’s election and in the first round of the presidential election on November 24, when PNL candidate Nicolae Ciucă recieved an embarassingly low eight per cent of the vote. Meanwhile, the vast majority of reformist, progressive USR voters would fiercely oppose the party working with the PSD, which for years has been viewed as inherently corrupt and opposed to what they consider the urgent, necessary reform of Romania’s bloated, inefficient state. The second option is also a likely a non-starter given that the current PSD (slightly more sensible than some previous incarnations) will be wary of breaking the cordon sanitaire and working with the extremist parties. Other PSDs of the past, such as that led by Liviu Dragnea five years ago, wouldn’t have had any problem doing so. While there are some figures within the PSD who would welcome collaboration with the extremists, the leadership (including Romania’s current PM Marcel Ciolacu and interim president of the party, MEP Victor Negrescu) appear set against it. Presidential run-off becomes existential Romanians could, therefore, find themselves voting in a new parliamentary election in a few months time with the current PSD-PNL coalition continuing to govern until then, albeit with limited powers. Romania’s parliament can be dissolved if two PM-designates fail to see their executives approved by a parliamentary majority. Much now depends on the second round of Romania’s presidential election, which takes place on December 8. The new president will nominate the country’s next prime minister. If the pro-Russian, quasi-fascist Călin Georgescu (who with no party behind him and with no political experience appeared from nowhere to win the first round off the back of a well-coordinated campaign on social network Tik-Tok) defeats Elena Lasconi of the USR, then the chances of at least some PSD MPs breaking the cordon sanitaire to form a government with the extremists increase considerably. Such a government would make Romania a pariah in the EU and NATO. However, a Georgescu win may also force the hand of PNL and USR, who may believe that have little choice but to hold their noses and enter into a coalition with the PSD in order to counter Georgescu’s extremist agenda. A victory for Lasconi meanwhile could also prompt the creation of a government of national unity, made up mainly of technocrats although perhaps led by a politician—Lasconi has previously suggested that Bolojan, a respected mayor of the western Romanian city of Oradea, would be a suitable PM of such a government. Few good options for the economy For the Romanian economy, currently stagnant (the latest forecast by the European Commission puts growth at just 1.4 per cent in 2024) and with the EU’s highest rate of inflation, almost five per cent, none of the likely outcomes is ideal. Romania needs to massively reduce public spending, with the general government deficit forecast to reach eight per cent of GDP in 2024, much higher than in 2023. The debt-to-GDP ratio is projected to increase to close to 60 per cent in 2026 without a change of economic course. A national unity government would be unable to push through spending cuts given its inclusion of the PSD, which opposes them, while a populist government that includes the extremist parties would likely increase spending to alarming levels. On foreign policy, a Lasconi presidency would see Romania continue to quietly support Kyiv in its fight against Russia’s invasion while boosting its own military capabilities as an increasingly key player on NATO’s Eastern Flank. A Georgescu presidency would seek to end all support for Kyiv. Two weeks ago, Romanian politics was arguably the most dull and predictable in the entire emerging Europe region. How quickly things change.

@GHarward Fascists fighting themselves

Nicolae Iorga's house in Sinaia. From this location, fascist Legionaries kidnapped & murdered the historian & politician in late November 1940 for having been a supporter of the royal dictatorship of King Carol II of Romania.

@Clienti_stbsa Cate zile din câte aveți acest anunț?

De la ora 07:00, din cauza traficului intens inregistrat pe unele artere ale capitalei, o parte dintre vehiculele liniilor S.T.B. acumuleaza intarzieri fata de programul de circulatie si inregistreaza dereglari de ritmicitate.

The new increased bill comes in exactly on December 25th!

Thank you for the Christmas present, @YouTube 😤

Hey @berlinairport you should not encourage people to throw away their reusable water bottles! Please make clear that passengers are allowed empty bottles. Every empty bottle that goes through security can be refilled and saves many more bottles!

@Clienti_stbsa Ar trebui să anunțați și pe Facebook căci în România puțini au X

Linia 10 - blocata pe Sos. Mihai Bravu, intre Piata Iancului si Vatra Luminosa, pe sensul spre Piata Muncii. Cauza: autobuz ramas defect pe linia de tramvai.

A rare Airbus A220 with asymmetric seating disposition, 2-3. Austrian Airlines OS785 Vienna - Bucharest operated by AirBaltic. @FG_AviationNews @AviationNews @flightradar24 @flightaware @Airbus

@vonderleyen Then stop talking and do something! Anything!

Deeply disturbed and saddened by news of the death of Alexei Navalny. Putin fears nothing more than dissent from his own people. A grim reminder of what Putin and his regime are all about. Let's unite in our fight to safeguard the freedom and safety of those who dare to stand up against autocracy.

@faustocoppi60 @We19149 Great result indeed! And great national diversity as well

Big congrats to the Romanian talent Wendy Bunea for her top 15 result in today's Junior Women race at the Cyclocross European Championships! 👏🇷🇴 Also looking at the national flags of the top 15, maybe cyclocross will become more than a Benelux sport. 🤞 #EuroCross23