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What Victory Parade? Fico and Vučić Get Sick Leave For Putin’s Day
5 May 2025
Liberal Mayor Nicușor Dan is trailing by 10 points. The frontrunner pledges to get Cǎlin Georgescu into power. If polls are to be trusted and George Simion wins on 18 May, Romania will soon become a soft underbelly in NATO’s eastern flank.
On the same day, in Poland, Rafał Trzaskowski will win the first round – and has good chances to win the country with a slight majority on 1 June.
UPDATE: Last week, we made a bet based on initial reports that Robert Fico and Aleksandar Vučić would not visit Russia – and eventually they decided to go. You can find more about their visits and regional reactions in the Slovak and Western Balkan sections of this outlook.
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