We have arrived at a new era of rock bottom governance both on a national level and on an EU one.
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Whilst pointing the finger and claiming that Russia interfered with the first, initial round of Romania’s presidential elections in December of last year, the EU appears to have done the very same thing to get its own candidate to win.
Yet while there is little if any evidence to support the EU claims of Russian interference last year, when it looked like a populist leader would storm home, there is evidence to support a charge that the EU has more than simply meddled in Romania’s elections.
The recent allegations come from Pavel Durov, Telegram boss, who was arrested and held by the French authorities since last August. At the time it was reported that he had been detained by French police as France wanted to investigate child porn and international terrorists.
In fact, events have revealed that this was entirely untrue and the real reason was that the EU and France were both planning how to derail the populist candidate in the presidential elections in the same year.
Durov told Reuters that Nicolas Lerner, who leads the DGSE foreign spy agency in France, approached him and asked him to help with the dirty work.
“This spring at the Salon des Batailles in the Hôtel de Crillon, Nicolas Lerner, head of French intelligence, asked me to ban conservative voices in Romania ahead of elections. I refused,” Durov wrote on X late on May 18th when the results came in.
“We didn’t block protesters in Russia, Belarus, or Iran. We won’t start doing it in Europe.”
The centrist mayor of Bucharest, Nicusor Dan, won Romania’s presidential election in what even Reuters have reported as a “shock victory” over George Simion, a hard-right, nationalist rival who had pledged to adopt a path inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump’s politics.
This desperate move by Macron is very telling as it shows a new low both for Paris and Brussels, with the latter particularly worried that its relevance is diminishing and with 3 EU member states acting as rebels on big decisions – Romania, Hungary and Slovakia – that there was a very real danger of the EU as we know it heading for the rocks. Something had to be done, something even quite underhand and illegal. It is unclear what the French spy chief actually did in Romania – as he arrived two days before the ballot – but on a technical level it is likely that the Romanians were swayed by fake news backed up by an artificial allusion on social media that Dan was way ahead in the polling – which would have swayed many to vote for him rather than Simion, the populist candidate.
What is interesting is that Macron took the lead on this when he is not at all the EU bloc’s chief diplomat. When the going gets tough, it seems the tough gets going and this can be the only explanation of the EU’s incumbent top diplo Kaja Kallas being a spectator to this plot which EU chiefs are barely denying. We have arrived at a new era of rock bottom governance both on a national level and on an EU one and dirty tricks like election interference has now become a norm for the EU and its big guns. They will literally stop at nothing to secure their own power and keep the lights on in Brussels and the Romanian elections are proof of this although the populist movement in Europe will only be strengthened by this craven move as now European voters can see the EU for what it is: a failed project.
