Problema Basarabiei la Congresul de la Berlin (1878) în corespondența presei franceze [Articol]

Abstract

The Question of Bessarabia at the Congress of Berlin (1878) in the correspondance of the french press. After having militarily aided the Russian Empire against the Ottoman Empire, Romania was announced in early 1878 that it would lose southern Bessarabia, but would receive Dobruja as compensation. Romanian diplomats tried to obtain the support of the Great Powers to keep southern Bessarabia, but everything was decided. During the Congress of Berlin in the summer of 1878, French newspapers took a stance on the plundering of Romania, criticizing the fact that the Great Powers did not defend Romania in the issue of southern Bessarabia, claimed by the Russians. French newspapers wrote about the fact that the Treaty of Paris of 1856 no longer existed, because the last clause had been abolished.