The publication of the renowned PISA 2025 study send shockwaves through the country this week: More than half of all Romanian 15-year-olds fail to achieve basic proficiency in mathematics, while functional illiteracy in reading has climbed to an alarming 48%. As parties in parliament remain deadlocked, the latest polling numbers show that the ongoing political crisis continues to benefit the “sovereigntists” of AUR. Meanwhile no word from the presidential palace in Cotroceni about the nomination of a new candidate prime minister…

Read further in Romanian Dispatch #56 (13 September 2026).