Romanian coalition crisis as PSD teams with far-right

Romania's largest parliamentary party, the Social Democrats (PSD), announced on Monday it will join forces with the hard-right opposition Alliance for Uniting Romanians (AUR) in a bid to topple the pro-European coalition government. The PSD had left the coalition earlier in April, and this new alliance puts the country's current government and its EU funding at significant risk. The move signals a major political realignment in Bucharest, potentially shifting the country's trajectory within the European Union. The coalition government, led by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, now faces a serious challenge to its survival.