The State represents all citizens.
Its institutions and all the people who work within them are fully paid with the money of the population; therefore, they must be completely available to optimally solve every single problem of every single person.
These may seem like trivial statements, but in reality, is it really so? Let’s look at our first concrete case.
For once, we will not talk to you about waste, more or less serious errors, abuse of power, failures that often have tragic consequences. This time, we will tell you how various States, institutions, and all the people involved in a sad and dramatic event did the worst thing: some institutions, and those working within them, broke the law — or allowed this to happen without lifting a finger — and finally, they did not even have the decency to respond to the various appeals of a desperate person and her family.
They did not even respond to someone who contributes to paying their often huge, and undeserved, salaries and the contributions for their future, enormous pensions.
Breaking the law, even unintentionally, is reprehensible and should result in the immediate dismissal of those responsible for such conduct. But to do so knowingly — or to fail to stop others from doing so — is extremely serious, and in addition to immediate dismissal, should also carry penalties.
We are not cruel, nor are we exaggerating: we are simply being fair.
This informational article is, for the first time, also an international, continental (especially European), and national press release in Italy and Romania.
It is entirely written by DirectDemocracyS, an innovative and alternative system that includes a political organization founded to change and improve the world.
Unlike all other political forces, which believe that politics is mainly about managing power, wealth, and state institutions for the benefit of themselves and a few wealthy, powerful, and famous lobbies and individuals, these “crazy,” “visionary” people believe that the primary task of politics is to solve the problems of the entire population — without any preference.
This press release will also have another consequence: we will publish a complete list of all the media and various agencies — newspapers, televisions, radios, blogs, influencers, and all communication channels — that we have contacted. Next to each of them, we will write: yes, they published it or no, they did not publish it.
So you will be able to distinguish the good from the bad, just as we do with all institutions and representatives we contacted — for whom we will write: they responded or they did not respond, and finally they helped or they did not help.
Because citizens need to know clearly which information channels to trust and which not to — and the same goes for various institutions and the people who work there.
Let it be clear to everyone: this is not blackmail — that’s what others do — we are simply offering you, perhaps for the first time, the means to make an informed decision about who is good and who is bad.
This is not revenge against anyone, and citizens have every right to know. For privacy reasons, all names have been deliberately omitted, but all the institutions will receive the names and surnames of each person involved.
This introduction must be published and fully disclosed, along with the following parts.
Why is a simple case of illegality, injustice, and abuse so important to us that we report it — and to those who will receive this information?
Simply because sooner or later, it could happen to anyone — and we want to ensure that it never happens again and that no one ever feels abandoned by the institutions and those who work in them.
What is this case about?
It concerns two countries, Italy and Romania, which signed a treaty at the highest levels — ratified by their respective parliaments and legalized by their heads of state — designed to prevent and avoid double taxation for citizens and businesses.
Don’t worry: this is not a boring or overly technical case, but it will surely be used as a precedent in this specific area — and perhaps force legislators and their experts to be clearer and more efficient in preventing such issues.
[Story of the individual case]
A Romanian woman, born in Romania to Romanian parents, falls in love with an Italian man she meets by chance at a party. Unfortunately for the two protagonists, Romania at the time was under a communist dictatorship that not only denied and suppressed religion but also futilely tried to prevent the strongest and most powerful force in the universe — love.
In 1977, the communist regime issued the young woman a passport, labeled her a “traitor of the State,” and stripped her of Romanian citizenship. Luckily, thanks to her marriage, the Italian authorities justly granted her Italian citizenship.
From their lifelong love story, two children were born, who also suffered many abuses from the Romanian State, which tried in every way to create serious problems for them.
The Romanian woman worked her entire life in Italy, paid all her contributions there, and retired there.
On all visits to her relatives in Romania — during the difficult communist years and even after the fall of the dictator Ceaușescu (up to Romania’s accession to the EU in 2007) — the entire family (Italian father, Romanian mother, and half-Romanian, half-Italian children) regularly paid for entry visas into the country where it all began.
After retiring and after her husband’s death, she decided to have a residence in Romania, hosted at her eldest son’s home. Out of love for her roots, she requested and obtained the citizenship unjustly taken away by the communist regime.
She lived her life as a retiree between Italy and Romania, obviously maintaining her center of interest in Italy, where her husband is buried — although she spent four or five months a year in Romania. She had planned, when no longer able to travel, to move permanently to Romania and be buried in her birthplace, along with the love of her life.
During one of these stays, she realized that her Italian ID card had expired. To renew it, and anticipating a possible permanent move to Romania, she registered with AIRE (Registry of Italians Residing Abroad) and went to the Italian Consulate in Arad to renew her ID.
[The injustice begins]
Even though her center of interest was in Italy, and her husband’s grave was in Italy, she continued to maintain her fiscal residence in Italy, paying all taxes monthly (withholding by INPS, the Italian pension authority) and filing annual tax returns in Italy through the CGIL union (paying for this service via pension deductions).
What was a clear, normal situation turned into a nightmare.
The Romanian tax authority (ANAF) sent her a notice stating that she had income from abroad.
Her son immediately called ANAF to explain that his mother was not fiscally resident in Romania, never requested such status, declared her income in Italy through CGIL, her income was taxed at source by INPS, and they were aware of the law preventing double taxation.
About a month later, ANAF sent an official request for payment of taxes on her pension (even though already declared and paid in Italy) for the year 2018.
At this point, the Italian authorities also became culpable — starting with the Revenue Agency, which, deceitfully and disgracefully, declared that since the woman was registered with AIRE, she was not fiscally resident in Italy.
Yet, they continued to receive and record her tax returns (via CGIL) and INPS continued to withhold about 25% of her pension for taxes.
Meanwhile, ANAF — despite seeing all the pension slips showing taxes withheld at source, knowing she never requested Romanian fiscal residence, knowing her healthcare and medications were paid for by Italy, and knowing about the bilateral treaty — still seized her Romanian funds (and even a third of her euro savings) in July 2025, adding penalties from 2018 to 2025.
[The response and actions]
When asked what she was accused of, and whether they believed it was legal, ethical, or moral to act against the treaty and seize her money, the answer from ANAF (recorded) was:
"The only solution you have is to take us to court."
So we will.
On our advice, she reported the Romanian authorities and the person who signed the seizure order to SOLVIT, an EU Commission agency that helps citizens when State authorities commit such abuses.
We also prepared a dossier — with names, evidence, and all details — to send to European, Italian, and Romanian authorities capable of intervening.
In the next article, we will provide further details, a full list of all institutions contacted, who responded and how, and who ignored us — so citizens can know who truly cares about their rights.
Final note:
Think twice before ignoring this message — it could happen to any of you.
DirectDemocracyS listens to every problem, investigates its authenticity, and if you are right, all of us — and we are many — will do everything necessary to help you, always and without discrimination.