Limen: Latin for threshold. We watch who is laying hands on Europe; and we cover the countries about to join it, for those doing business there. We take facts for facts.
Ports, grids, energy, data, companies, institutions: who acquires or leverages them from outside, by what means, and who inside makes it possible. In every entry the established fact stays distinct from the allegation, with sources.
DossierThe Strait of Otranto, where southern Europe plugs itself inRead → Reading listThe investigations behind the map — who did them, and why they matterGo →Each edition covers one country on Europe's threshold for those doing business there. What follows comes from the Moldova edition, the only one open so far.
On 21 July parliament gave its confidence to the government of Vasile Tofan, 44, until days earlier a senior partner at the Horizon Capital fund: 53 votes out of 101. The programme is titled "European Economy, Efficient State" and promises the digitalisation of tax and customs — yet in the chamber Tofan warned: "I do not promise taxes will not change".
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"The pro-European government cannot run the country" — one of 39 false narratives attributed to the Matryoshka network.
The factThe machinery matters more than the message: WatchDog.MD has mapped 910 coordinated accounts pushing Russian narratives, and Moldovan police report hundreds of new profiles created daily. Parliamentary elections fall on 28 September. In the brief →
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