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Romania’s Presidential Election: European Alliances vs Authoritarian Drift
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20 September 2022
With the cold winter at our doorsteps, we cannot allow populists to shackle the CEE to cheap Russian fossil fuels.
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine and sanctions imposed over the warmongering of Putin’s regime, most energy resources — gas, oil, coal and even uranium for some of the nuclear power plants — come from the east, and its flow is coming to a halt.
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The crisis sparked by the Russian war could speed up the region’s energy transition and strengthen the CEE’s energy independence. Now, with the modern carbon-neutral technologies and European Union funding, energy sustainability and independence are closer than ever.