INSIGHT: The Angry Boys

Romanians with a bent towards ultra-nationalism can rely on two major parties to represent their strong feelings for their fatherland.

When it comes to ultra-nationalism, the star in Romania is 58-year-old Corneliu Vadim Tudor. The Bucharest-born writer and journalist is the leader of the Greater Romania Party (GRP).

Although Tudor is represented in Europe’s most democratic institution, the European Parliament, he has a reputation in Romania as a controversial and essentially populist political figure. In Wikipedia the first association that comes up after Tudor’s name is “strongly nationalist and xenophobic views; theatrics which often accompany his rhetoric, and his reliance on the denunciations of political opponents”.

Evidence for these claims emerges from the several civil court actions against him, which is the second thing he has in common with Bulgaria’s Ataka leader Volen Siderov. Romania Mare has been sued for libel on several occasions in connection with Tudor’s writings, which he usually produces under a pseudonym.

In 1971 Tudor received a degree in philosophy from the University of Bucharest. This was followed in 1975 by military training at the School for Reserve Officers in Bucharest. Unusually for the Cold War era, Tudor was granted a scholarship and studied history in Vienna in 1978-79. During the 1980s Tudor worked as a journalist and editor of several magazines.

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INSIGHT: The Angry Boys
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