
Iosefina Pascal
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Iosefina Pascal
@iosefinapascal
Investigative journalist in Romania
Bucharest, Romania Katılım Kasım 2022
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The SAFE working group deciding the fate of €16 billion for the Romanian Army's modernization was set up illegally!
Coordination was wrenched away from the Ministry of Defense and moved to the Prime Minister's Chancellery, overriding the Defence Ministry's constitutional authority and bypassing the Supreme Council of National Defense (CSAT).
From the Presidential Palace, the economic policy advisor is part of the group, not the national security advisor, even though we're talking about a military program.
The Chief of the Defense Staff and the commanders of the Land, Air and Naval Forces are nowhere to be found, that is to say, the very people who will actually use the equipment being bought. And, to make things worse, there is no representative of the national defence industry, nor the director of ARCTIS (the state institution specifically created to defend Romania's industrial interests in arms procurement).
In other words: the people making the decisions are not the ones who use the weapons, not the ones who could produce them, and not the ones whose job it is to defend the national interest.
These practices, along with the way 70% of the funds were funnelled to Rheinmetall, mean a real risk of entering an infringement procedure (Art. 258 TFEU) launched by the European Commission for breaching the principles of transparency and equal treatment laid down in the SAFE Regulation (EU) 2025/1106 and Directive 2009/81/EC.
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@iosefinapascal Great article/research. 👏🏻
Was not aware of Nathalie Loiseau until today. 👀
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The exclusive testimony I published about cash transits to and from Ukraine was confirmed by a report from the Ministry of Finance in Romania.
Surprisingly, 500 million € remained in Romania during the presidential election campaign.
Why? What happened with the money? Why were billions of € allowed to transit Romania?
Read my investigation below⬇️⬇️⬇️

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While I definitely support free speech, I also think science has found treatment for these talentless and politically incoherent tantrums.
So, unless this is a medically approved form of group therapy, they should definitely seek help.
𝙈𝘼𝙍𝘾𝙊@Marco_CMC90
🍌 Această mizerie pare desprinsă din serbarea unei grădinițe muciuseriste.🤣
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Wrong. This is not about "supporting Ukraine" or "not supporting Ukraine". It is about supporting Romania's first. And not destroying our country with loans we cannot support, for the German military industrialized complex or the Ukrainian one.
Romania includes the Hungarian minority. And guess what? The UDMR party that is supposed to represent the best interests of the Hungarian minority in Romania has always supported the worst Brussels puppet governments.
The same governments that have led to Romania's economic collapse.
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@KoskovicsZ Az AUR támogatni fogja Ukrajnát . A Fidesz szerencséje , hogy akkor nem nyert az AUR mert támogatott egy magyarellenes pártot a semmiért . Az AUR benne van Meloni pártcsaládjában . Ukrajnát fogja támogatni bármilyen is a narratíva .
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@TrandafirPvL TMB judge Denisa-Florina Lazăr
luju.ro/vicepremiera-l…
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@iosefinapascal Can you name the judges of the court that met in secret to make the court's decision ?
- Do it so people can see who the Deep State's "tools" are in Romania !
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The Bucharest Tribunal just ordered four journalists, including me, to pay 600,000 EUR in damages to Vice Prime Minister Oana Gheorghiu and her NGO just two days before the vote for the motion of censure.
My right to defense was effectively annulled in this trial and the trial itself took place in a secret meeting.
A 600,000 EUR total sentence for journalistic investigations. This is not justice, it’s a dangerous precedent meant to silence the press and directly contradicts every EU directive on freedom of press.
Especially coming from a Vice PM in the Bolojan government that is falling today.
We will appeal. Romania deserves a free press, not fear.
PRESS RELEASE
Union of Professional Journalists of Romania (UZPR)
May 5, 2026
**Damages of millions of lei against journalists – a precedent that risks silencing the press**
The Union of Professional Journalists of Romania considers that the ruling issued by the Bucharest Tribunal (TMB), ordering three journalists to pay damages amounting to millions of lei, raises a major concern for the free functioning of the press in Romania.
Without commenting on the correctness of the court's ruling on the merits — a matter that falls exclusively within the jurisdiction of higher courts — UZPR emphasizes that the scale of these damages goes beyond the specific case and sends a message of generalized intimidation: this is no longer just about the liability of certain journalists, but about the risk of the entire press being silenced.
When the sanction for a journalistic endeavor reaches such proportions, we are no longer talking about accountability, but about systemic deterrence, in which fear becomes a professional norm. Not only those sanctioned are affected, but all journalists who, seeing these consequences, will avoid sensitive subjects, investigations, or legitimate criticism. This is the classic mechanism by which freedom of expression is indirectly curtailed: not through prohibition, but through fear.
UZPR warns that sanctions of this type risk producing exactly the effect that European legislation seeks to combat — a profound "chilling effect," in which the press is no longer free, but cautious to the point of self-censorship.
This context is all the more serious as it comes just before May 7, 2026, the deadline for transposing Directive (EU) 2024/1069, whose purpose is to protect journalists against abusive legal actions designed to intimidate or silence them:
*"Although the anti-SLAPP Directive has not yet been effectively transposed into domestic law, courts are already obliged to interpret national rules in accordance with its objective, so as to prevent the use of litigation as a tool of intimidation. In this context, instruments such as abuse of rights, procedural good faith, and the sanctioning of manifestly unfounded claims can and must be used to ensure genuine protection of freedom of expression and participation in public debate."*
Rather than this moment marking the consolidation of freedom of expression protections, we are witnessing judicial decisions that, through the magnitude of their sanctions, may produce an effect contrary to the spirit of the European directive.
The Union of Professional Journalists of Romania calls on the authorities to:
- Pay greater attention to the principle of proportionality in cases involving journalistic activity
- Accelerate the implementation of the mechanisms provided by the anti-SLAPP Directive
- Ensure a genuine framework of protection for the exercise of press freedom
Freedom of the press is not lost only through direct censorship. It is also lost when the cost of that freedom becomes so great that no one can afford it anymore.
Union of Professional Journalists of Romania
Bucharest, May 5, 2026
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@MartinPolanyi And? That's even more reason NOT to appoint him.
I think his sister, Ilona Melléthi-Barna, who has been appointed to the Central District court of Pest, has been his sister for decades. Right?😂😂😂😂 Or just 5 months ago?
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@iosefinapascal The guy he appointed has been the legal director of Tisza for over 2 years, he only became his brother in law like 5 months ago
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Diseară vorbim despre chinurile facerii propagandei hashtagiste in Romania.
Și despre toți "eroii" ăștia apăruți ca ciupercile după ploaie. 👀
Vă mulțumesc pentru invitație!
Nae Moromete®@ingerisidemoni
🧵Deși poate că mulți ați descoperit'o în ultimi ani, eu cu @iosefinapascal mă știu de multă vreme, de pe vremea când căpăceam tefelistii la începuturile apariției lor prin online. Am luptat împreună în prima linie a tranșeelor propagandei ce azi ne'a adus unde suntem...
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@iosefinapascal I have to hand it to you, Iosefina - you were 100% right about Poopy Pete (brilliant nickname btw, very Trumpian)
Some of us are just too optimistic for our own good.
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To be fair: he might have been out of available cadres. Nobody wanted this most uncomfortable position: indicting former government members and their families.
Iosefina Pascal@iosefinapascal
HOLY HYPOCRISY Peter Magyar accused Orban of appointing friends and relatives in govt positions during the elections, now he's appointing his brother-in-law as Minister of Justice. That's some Cosa Nostra type thing.
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@adrianagiurgiu @RixDaoi @Bolojan Nici extraterestrii nu vin, auzi vorba, un premier care vorbeste despre el la persoana a treia si spune ca doar in Romania curge apa de la deal la vale. E clar de zona crepusculara
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Afacerea Skoda, cel mai mare scandal de corupție din perioada interbelică – pentru că trăim blestemul istoriei care se repetă
@iosefinapascal - tunul Safe nu e chiar ceva nou, dar asa se intampla cand ne uitam istoria ...😉🤟
ingerisidemoni.ro/afacerea-skoda…
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@ingerisidemoni Perfect spus și foarte bine documentat! Bine, dacă ne aminteam istoria, PNL nu ar mai fi existat după atrocitatile făcute.

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În țară asta nu se fură de ieri, de azi, ci se fură de când lumea și pământul, unul dintre cele mai celebre cazuri de corupție care a lăsat România fără armament în prag de război, a fost „Afacerea Skoda”, o filă de istorie ce poate că azi, mai mult decât oricând, merită reamintită, România aflându’se într’o situație tot mai asemănătoare cu programul SAFE, importurile de armament pe hârtie find în floare, iar la conducere avem aceiași trădători ca și atunci.
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@ingerisidemoni @Digg3o @partidulAUR_RO @stiripesurse_ro @turcescu @georgesimion E de ajuns să vezi cine îl promovează în acest context și te lămurești care budă operativă il butonează. 😂
Partidul "Adevărații Suveraniști iau 0,01% La Alegeri"
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@Digg3o @iosefinapascal @partidulAUR_RO @stiripesurse_ro @turcescu @georgesimion Chestiile astea nu se intampla peste noapte, iar la cum continua acum sa induca in eroare pe toata lumea, e clara treaba ca omul e cu ordin pe garnizoana.
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Hai ca a aparut stirea legata de plecarea lui Lulea din @partidulAUR_RO la @stiripesurse_ro . Iosca, ai fost baiat salon citand sursa! 😉
@turcescu
Multumesc pentru lamuriri @georgesimion , limpezirea asta era mai mult decat necesara mai ales in aceste momente tulburi! Succes la motiune!


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După cum i-am zis atunci "ce e val, ca valul trece". Și, oricum, n-are de ce să fie supărat, pentru că el însuși a recunoscut că era un fel de secretară acolo. 😂😂😂
"Nu controlez eu nimic! Partidul are un Birou Național Central, cu membri și doi copreședinti. Am fost președinte fondator pentru că am experiență birocratică din activitatea mea curentă."
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@ingerisidemoni @partidulAUR_RO @stiripesurse_ro @turcescu @georgesimion Iosefina Pascal a scris de Lulea că s-a întâlnit cu oamenii lui Coldea. Dâncu, care se întâlnea și cu Târziu, înainte să atace AUR. Iude care își vând țara pe 3 arginți.
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