European leaders breathed a deep sigh of relief after a centrist pro-EU candidate won Romania’s presidential election on Sunday.
But the results from that contest, and other elections in Poland and Portugal over the weekend, underscored how a populist insurgency is gathering strength across Europe and coming ever closer to taking or returning to power. They also showed how vaunting an ideological affinity with Donald Trump can pay off electorally.
EU leaders lavished praise on Nicuşor Dan, the mathematician turned reformist mayor of Bucharest, for beating ultranationalist George Simion to win Romania’s presidency after coming a distant second in the first round.
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