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Șerban Nicolae, one of the leaders of the majority party, after the "main" leader went to jail, just announced his candidature to Romanian presidency at the next elections in November or December.

Starting with the title of the interview. "Using secret protocols is deep illegal". Should have been adverb not adjective. Deeply illegal (adjective, illegal requires an adverb as modifier).

The English spoken by the guy on the left (Euronews) is weird. It starts from the beginning. "When i came here, from the airport, right now". Past tense verb, narrative tense, right now, present. Bullying gestures, bad English, it makes it very hard to answer. Gives a bad English example to non-native speakers, right from the start. Too distracting, throws your mind off the subject immediately.

Actually the reason i started this was because i could not make sense of what they were talking about.

And continues. "I asked the taxi driver: Romania changed its government 3 times in one year".

That is not a question. Should have been. I told the taxi driver. Nevermind the phrase is followed by another one, a question.

1:40 "Why you had the third change of government since one year?"

Romania did have indeed 3 govern changes within one year but they were not "deep" changes. The most important ministers where rotated while some of the non-important where changed together with the names of the prime ministers.

1:49. "One erection?"

2:20. Unintelligible. Inner? procedure?

Got it. Penal procedure. There is no penal procedure in English speaking countries.

2:27 "Why putting pressure on judges? Why intimidating them?

What?

2:56 "Why should [we] not have personal liability for judges?"

Because of separation of powers in state? Who would judge a judge "held" for personal liability? Would judges start to judge among selves? Would they start to buy insurance for liability, like doctors? There are countries where they've been serious judicial errors, like people being imprisoned for life or even executed and then exonerated but i never heard of a judge being "held liable" for a judgement.

It is true that in the US any person who's being accused of a serious crime can request a juror trial where half of the jurors are being picked by the prosecutor and half by the defendant's lawyer. Most serious cases are not judged by judges.

3:03. "The liability of a judge or a prosecutor can be... arrange... only when there's been a judicial error that leads to payment of the state..."

English. Cannot "arrange" a liability. "could occur" or "can happen" would have been much better. Should have been past tense "arranged".

Again never heard of something like that.

4:04 "This kind of interpretation that the individual liability can be interpreted as a form of intimidation is not correct. All the public servants are under this kind of intimidation".

English. Can an interpretation can be interpreted?

English. Contradiction in the same phrase. Interpretation is not correct, all the public servants are under this kind of intimidation.

English: should be "All the public servants are subjected to intimidation". Is there more than one kind of intimidation?

Juridical and reality. Nobody likes to work while intimidated. Could be sarcastic or metaphoric in which case the phrase makes sense.

He is making a big mistake here like most people who lived in communist countries where the law was used as an instrument of repression. Nobody should fear the law unless if they committed or commit crimes.

4:19 "The intimidation of the law. They have to obey the law".

Again (emphasis on the same mistake)

4:30 "I break the law, i will pay" (about judges).

4:33 "Is the independence of justice under threat here in Romania?"

What? Like it existed?

4:38 No, you see the main fear came [comes] from [a] different point of view.

Never heard of a fear coming from a point of view.

...will continue...

Bucovina and Dalmatia

"In spite of protests by Dalmatian parliamentarians, who objected to the ‘Romanian-Ruthenian’ character of the new Metropoly and who maintained that such a decision could not be taken without prior approval by the Orthodox Church authorities, the Metropoly of Bukovina and Dalmatia was established in 1873."

https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/1531434/126251_thesis.pdf

I am intrigued by the mentioning in this work of the name of Dalmatians as a distinct ethnicity in Bucovina, but not so much. Austro-Hungarians had this habit of moving people around their empire from one province to another to weaken local opposition. For about at least one hundred years both provinces where simultaneously part of the Austro-Hungarian empire but i find no mention of their migrations.

As a result of this policy, as seen on the map below, Bucovina in 1918, after 144 years of Austrian rule (after it was taken from Moldova) was formed of 6 different ethnicities in approximately in equal numbers though not evenly distributed, but there is no mention of migration of Dalmatians. (middle click on it for bigger size).

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiixtlKKpAar-DF7MRS2jX0zLdFHBq334rCdRyLYXHx88qipXkJLxxDsIPj3XKemKxN4cp8T_6gEZQxIXEQUY23G12WKR7q3ylH3OaoqXG2KWNTPYuYQdx2DJ3VLfXCs5ohFbhv5efaGwE/s1600/Ethno.jpg

Could it be the "Huzulen" mentioned on the legend of this map be the Dalmatians.

https://www.slavorum.org/forum/topic/white-croats/page/6/

https://www.google.com/search?q=hutsul+magic

"The name Bukovina came into official use in 1775 with the region's annexation from the Principality of Moldavia to the possessions of the Habsburg Monarchy (which became the Austrian Empire in 1804, and Austria-Hungary in 1867)."

However the name could be local Dacian, which could be a language closely related to Sanskrit. भूक जिन in Sanskrit could mean anything from "time or heart of victory" to "heart of the old".

The main historical square of the city of Chernivtsi, capital of the historic Bucovina is called Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans

Also note the resemblance of today's flag of the whole of Ukraine and the flag of historic Kingdom of Dalmatia, now part of Croatia (ex-Yugoslavia).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Dalmatia#/media/File:Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Dalmatia.svg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png

One of the ethnicities also brought by Austrians in Bucovina where Ruthenians that are also mentioned on the map above.

I was surprised to find out the current Minister of Economy and Trade of Ukraine since December 2014 was born in Lithuania.

And finally.

U-krainian. White Croatian. Graz. Craiova. Grația.

Smiljan, Birth place of Nikola Tesla was a few miles away of the northern limit of Dalmatia, now both part of Croatia. Tesla studied at The Polytechnic Institute (Graz, Austria) worked in Budapest and Paris (just before Eiffel tower was erected) before moving to the US at invitation of Edison where he build another tower during which existence the Tunguska event took place and subsequent WWI, Soviet Union and WWII occurred.

Last cover of the weekly satirical Romanian publication Cațavencii, after the recent visit of pope Francis in Romania suggesting President of Romania, Prime Minster, others are "Dalmatians".