If there is one thing we have learned from the repeated global war, health and economic and energy crisis of the last six years, it is that there is no such thing as an immune country.
Unfortunately, however, it was a lesson in which the populists were left uneducated. Across almost all of Europe, including, of course, Greece. But our country’s geopolitical position is privileged only in conditions of governmental stability. The map of instability we present in this survey demonstrates why Europe is in its current state. But also why Greece, the last bastion of stability, has been targeted.
It is no coincidence that government instability has become the norm across Europe. The moneyed powers can more easily exercise their interventionist role in coalition governments, succeeding by the withdrawal of one party, usually a small one, from the governing coalition to bring down the government, hold new elections, follow by new negotiations to form a government, i.e. to create a dangerous vacuum, which is repeated from time to time.
This is why the government is under so much attack, with incredible toxicity, hate language, lies, denunciations. And all this while the world around us is crumbling and we are in a geopolitical position very close to wars and with very difficult neighbours. The only way to limit the consequences of such crises is government stability. For it is the only way for the people to know who is accountable. And this obliges any self-reliant government to legislate and make critical decisions on national issues and support measures in economic crises without perpetual debates within a governing coalition. All the more so when something goes wrong, government partners blame each other and no one takes responsibility. The map of instability includes almost all of Europe.
Romania: Today’s impeachment motion from Socialists and far-right
The most recent example is that of Romania. The presidential election of November 2024, when the virtually unknown pro-Russian far-right candidate Kalin Georgesku had won the first round, was annulled by the Constitutional Court. In May, the pro-European Nikosor Dan was finally elected.
In the parliamentary elections of 1 December 2024, three ultra-nationalist, pro-Russian, far-right parties had secured nearly 35% of the seats. This was the reason why four parties, the top vote-getter Social Democratic (PSD), the Liberals of the National Liberal Party (PNL), the Save Romania Union (USR) and the Democratic Alliance of Magyars (UDMR), representing the Hungarian minority, agreed to form a coalition government. With socialist Marsel Ciolacu, who resigned in May 2025, as prime minister (again) and was succeeded by liberal Ilie Bolojan, who received a vote of confidence in June 2025.
It is worth noting that the same parties had also formed a government in 2021, but it too fell in 2023 when the Hungarian party left the coalition. The four-party Boloian government survived six impeachment motions in six months. And finally, on 20 last April, just ten months after the government was formed, Sorin Grindeanu’s Social Democratic Party decided to leave the governing coalition, withdrawing ministers and deputy ministers.
This was followed by the familiar blackmail:“We will remain in government, but with another prime minister”! This was the last thing Romania needed: a government crisis that will increase the country’s borrowing costs, hurt its credit rating and deprive the country of €11 billion in European funds if it fails to implement the reforms it has committed to by August. The situation is dramatic. Currently, the Social Democratic Party has 94 seats in parliament, the far-right and pro-Russian AUR (Alliance for the Union of Romanians) is in second place with 62 seats, with the PNL and USR in third and fourth place with 51 and 40 seats. They are followed by the UDMR Mayors with 22 seats, the Minorities with 17, the far-right SOS RO with 15 and POT, the Youth Party (which actually split), with 16. The icing on the cake came on April 27, when the unthinkable happened, the very thing the Socialists had repeatedly denied: The Social Democrats teaming up with Georg Simion’s far-right AUR, who jointly submitted a motion of censure against the (now minority) government. The debate was set for today, 5 May. The two parties control 220 of the 464 seats in the Romanian Parliament. To overthrow the government, 233 votes are needed, which could be gathered with the help of smaller far-right parties. Parliamentary elections in Romania are scheduled for 2028 and, according to Article 85(3) of the constitution, the prime minister is not obliged to request a vote of confidence in parliament if a political party withdraws its ministers from the government. What he can do is to appoint a new Cabinet for 45 days and then proceed with reshuffles every 45 days until election time.
After the vote on the impeachment motion, the situation will develop into a deeper crisis. Following the Socialists’ alliance with the far-right, the PNL and USR have ruled out any cooperation with the Social Democratic Party, while President Nikusor Dan has ruled out the possibility of appointing a prime minister from a coalition with the far-right.
Call for wisdom and courage
And the Socialists have again resorted to the familiar pretentious populist slogan “no to selling off silver”. This is because the government, whose program they had co-signed, decided to list large state-owned enterprises on the stock exchange in order to sell minority stakes of 5% and 10%, with large revenues for the State, which at the same time retains the majority of the shares!
On April 30, 2026, the Deputy Prime Minister, Oanna Georgiou, sent an email to all MPs, with a call for “wisdom and courage”. “There are times when every person must choose between the truth and what, at the moment, seems more convenient to be true. This is one of those moments,” he wrote. And he presented the primary document on privatisation presented to the Cabinet on 16 April and published in the official Government Gazette. In other words, he revealed that everything had been agreed and that other reasons had led the Social Democrats out of government and into an unholy alliance with the far-right. “History will remember with gratitude those who saved the country from chaos, not those who pushed it towards it,” the vice-president concluded in her letter.
By no coincidence, noted journalist and analyst Christian Tudor Popescu said the impeachment motion against the government was an attempt to change the country’s strategic direction, to move it away from the EU and from its position as a pillar of the eastern wing of NATO. “Such a development would mean abandoning support for Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova in favour of a Moscow-controlled nationalism,” he concluded.
And economic analyst Adrian Negrescu pointed to the lack of a concrete alternative. As he said, in times of crisis, political disagreements are not enough. Feasible solutions must also be offered. In other words, the “alternative” is not enough. In fact, Negrescu sounded the alarm, referring to what happened in Greece in 2015, when “Syriza won the elections with spectacular promises that led to even harsher austerity measures. The price of populism is huge“.
Kosovo: Three elections in one year!
For the third time since 2025, Kosovo is heading for new elections. In October 2025 there were… 57 fruitless votes to elect a speaker of parliament and the country went to the polls on 28 December 2025, when Prime Minister Kurti’s Self-Determination movement won, securing 51% of the vote. This was preceded by a period of political instability for ten months due to the inability to form a government. On 29 April last year, Parliament was dissolved because it again failed to elect a president due to the abstention of opposition MPs and the lack of a quorum. The next elections will be held within 45 days. The now caretaker Prime Minister Albin Kurti has accused opposition parties of being indifferent to stability in the country and their only political goal is to overthrow him.
Bulgaria: Eight elections in five years!
On April 19, Bulgaria went to its eighth election in five years. The coalition government led by Prime Minister Rosen Zeliazkov’s GERB party Rosen Zeliazkov was swept into power in December 2025 after being forced to withdraw the budget amid protests. After the government resigned, the three largest parties refused to take responsibility for forming a government. The GERB-SDS coalition had won the October 2024 elections, but a government was formed in January 2025. Which resigned before the year was out! Last April’s parliamentary elections were won by pro-Russian former president Rumen Radev, ensuring self-reliance with the new party he founded after he resigned from the presidency. If it takes eight elections in five years to form a government
Czech Republic: With a far-right parliament speaker
Developments were also seen in Czechia. There, billionaire Andrei Babis won the October 2025 election and returned to the prime minister’s office. However, his ANO (Action of Dissatisfied Citizens) party secured only 80 seats out of 200 in the Czech parliament, and Babbis formed a coalition government with the Eurosceptic far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party and the newly formed right-wing Autonomist Party (AUTO) two months after the election. Thus, the far-right Tommio Ocamura, about whom his own brother and Christian Democrat MP declared that his election constituted a “threat to the security” of the country, was elected president of the parliament! Babbis himself said of his governing coalition that “it is not what we would prefer, but it is what is possible”. And he already needs to intervene to avoid extreme language from his allies.
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