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President Iohannis, at the Annual Transatlantic Conference, organised by AmCham EU in Brussels
Friday, March 22, 2019
Romania is "fully devoted" to a strong transatlantic relation and a close cooperation between the EU and the US and between the EU and NATO, President Klaus Iohannis said on Thursday."A strong transatlantic cooperation has always been and will remain an essential prerequisite for our economies' and our citizens' prosperity. The transatlantic partnership remains the essential strategic relation on the global arena. Together, our countries represent by far the group ...
DefMin Les, about the "aggressive" developments in the Black Sea area
Friday, March 22, 2019
The North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation should "implement a long-term inclusive, comprehensive and consistent strategy, to support Black Sea Security," Minister of Defence Gabriel Les stated on Thursday at the "Atlantic - Black Sea Security Forum.""Russia has reached a new level of its strategic approach and it's ready to use direct aggression, in order to achieve certain political and security goals," said the Minister.He spoke, on the same occasion, ...
ForMin Melescanu: over past 10 years we had several hybrid activities in the Black Sea region
Friday, March 22, 2019
Romania is one of the key-players in terms of the security in the Black Sea region, where, over the past years, there have been "several hybrid-type activities," Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu stated on Thursday in the opening of the "Atlantic-Black Sea Security Forum.""From our point of view, the gravitational center moves from the Atlantic area to a small region, called the Black Sea," the head of the Romanian diplomacy stated. He mentioned that the ...
Liberal Senator accuses Fin Min Teodorovici of playing Russia’s games
Friday, March 22, 2019
Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici is accused by liberal (PNL– opposition) Senator Florin Citu of playing Russia’s games against the interests of Romania and of its strategic allies, romaniajournal.ro informs. The Liberal argues that Teodorovici has conceived a plan to allow Moscow to continue its masked economic expansion. In a post on his face boock, social networks, Citu rhetorically asks if Eugen Teodorovici is a Russian spy, ...
Ambassador Ion Jinga to UN pleaded for integrating a gender dimension in peacebuilding processes and for the stabilization of the Sahel region
Friday, March 22, 2019
The Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations, Ambassador Ion Jinga, delivered a statement on Wednesday, the 20th of March 2019, at the ambassadorial–level meeting of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) on “Gender Responsive Social Protection Systems and Access to Public Services in Peacebuilding Contexts: Connecting local women’s perspectives with global policies and ...
European Commission - first reaction about legalizing cannabis for medicinal purposes in Romania
Friday, March 22, 2019
The European Commission says that although cannabis is used for medicinal purposes in some EU member states, additional clinical research and studies are needed to analyze interaction with other medicines , as well as studies meant to observe patients over a longer period of time. “Cannabis sativa and cannabises are used for medicinal purposes in some EU member states according to the European Observer for drugs and addiction”, says the ...
INSCOP survey : PSD and PNL are almost equal in voting intentions for the European Parliament elections
Friday, March 22, 2019
PSD ( social-democratic party , at rule) and PNL ( liberal party – opposition) are almost at the same level in terms of voting intentions for the elections for European Parliament this spring, a national INSCOP Research survey reads. The survey was conducted during March 5-13, 2019 upon the request of Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a release quoted by ziare.com informs. The share of those saying will go to the ballot has ...
Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, at the opening of the Startup Europe Summit 2019, Cluj-Napoca
Friday, March 22, 2019
Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel said on Thursday in Cluj-Napoca that the first European digital programme, 'Digital Europe', has an allocation of 9 billion euro.At the opening of the Startup Europe Summit 2019, taking place on 21-22 March in Cluj-Napoca in the context of the presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Commissioner encouraged the representatives of the startup attending the event that came from 35 countries to ...
Romanian company and Italian firearm producer Beretta to produce two new types of rifles
Friday, March 22, 2019
Romania will associate with the Italian firearms producer Beretta in view of manufacturing, at the Mechanic Plant in Plopeni of Prahova County, two types of weapons, Economy Minister Nicolae Badalau announced on Thursday.According to him, the Romanian state and the Italian company will establish a new company, in which the Romanian side will own 80 percent of the shares."We have to switch from 7.62 with the Romanian Army (...) to NATO caliber and these ...
Romania cereal exports to EU countries in 2018 exceed EUR 1 bln
Friday, March 22, 2019
Romania exported last year cereals worth EUR 1.018 billion to the EU countries, according to data released Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).More than half of these exports (EUR 577.9 million) went Spain, Italy and Germany, as follows: Spain imported cereals from Romania worth EUR 255.3 million, Italy - EUR 202.2 million and Germany - EUR 120.4 million.Moreover, in 2018 Romania exported to the community countries products of the ...
MEP Laurentiu Rebega, prosecuted by DNA for incitement to defraud with European funds and money laundering
Friday, March 22, 2019
MEP Laurentiu Rebega, at the time of the deeds Vice-President of the Prahova County Council, was prosecuted by the anti-corruption prosecutors in a case in which he is accused, among other things, of incitement to defraud with European funds and money laundering, the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) informs on Thursday.According to a DNA press release, the prosecutors within the National Anti-corruption Directorate - the Anti-Corruption Department ...
President Iohannis participates in Brussels in European Council meeting and EPP Summit
Thursday, March 21, 2019
President Klaus Iohannis is attending, Thursday through Friday, the European Council meeting in Brussels.According to the agenda, the president will also attend the Transatlantic Annual Conference organized by the American Chamber of Commerce of the European Union (AmCham EU), due to take place in Brussels on Thursday. On this occasion, he will emphasize, according to a press release of the Presidential Administration, the special importance of transatlantic ...
Timmermans and Dancila confirm work on implementation of CVM recommendations has intensified
Thursday, March 21, 2019
First Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans and Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila confirmed at the "brief" meeting they had in Brussels on Wednesday that the "work" on the "implementation" of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) recommendations and of "the additional issues identified has intensified with the prospect of delivering concrete results soon," a spokesperson for the European Commission said."First Vice-President ...
MEP asks Romanian officials to present actions regarding the file on triggering article 7 against Hungary
Thursday, March 21, 2019
The MEP who initiated the procedures to trigger article 7 against Hungary, Judith Sargentini, has asked Romanian ministers in Brussels to provide the measures taken to advance the sensitive file against Hungary, considering Romania has been at the helm of the EU Council for three months, Digi 24 reported, quoting index.hu, romaniajournal.ro ...
Venice Commission will issue opinion on Ordinance 7 on June 19
Thursday, March 21, 2019
The Venice Commission has announced that it will issue an opinion on the provisions of Emergency Ordinance 7/2019, amending the Laws of Justice, which triggered dozens of protests in the magistracy, on June 19, informs the website of the institution. The Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has requested the Venice Commission for this law at the request of the Romanian Judges Forum (FJR) and the National Liberal ...
Candidacy for European Prosecutor: New discussions next week
Thursday, March 21, 2019
The first round of negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on the appointment of the first EU chief prosecutor, a competition in which former DNA chief Laura Codruta Kovesi is running, has ended on Wednesday without results. Sources from European Parliament have told hotnews.ro that new talks are scheduled next week. Negotiations have just begun, the next talks will be on March 27, the quoted sources ...
Possible Gov’t reshuffling before elections for European Parliament
Thursday, March 21, 2019
The Social-Democratic Party (PSD – at rule)) aims Government reshuffling before the elections for European Parliament, with target on the ministers running on May 26 such as Rovana Plumb and Natalia Intotero. According to hotnews.ro, the real target is Justice Minister Tudorel Toader, who has stirred discontent in the party for not issuing the emergency ordinances on criminal codes, the judges’ panels and the protocols. The sources say the ...
President Iohannis notifies Constitutional Court on amendments to Local Public Administration Law
Thursday, March 21, 2019
President Klaus Iohannis on Wednesday sent to the Constitutional Court (CCR) a notification of unconstitutionality on the normative act amending and supplementing the Local Public Administration Law 215/2001.According to the Presidential Administration, in his notification to the CCR, President Iohannis states that "in the manner in which it was adopted, as well as by the normative content, the criticized law contravenes constitutional norms and ...
Simple motion on justice – rejected by the Deputies' Chamber
Thursday, March 21, 2019
The simple motion on Justice got rejected on Wednesday by the Deputies' Chamber plenum. There were 126 votes in favour, 148 against and two abstentions recorded.The simple motion against the Minister of Justice, entitled "Tudorel Toader and PSD-ALDE (Social Democratic Party - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats), take your hands off justice," initiated by 91 Deputies of PNL (National Liberal Party) and USR (Save Romania Union), was debated by the Deputies' Chamber ...
INSCOP poll: Romanians are pessimistic; they believe Romania is heading in the wrong direction
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Romanians are pessimistic when it comes to their own country's future direction and more optimistic when it comes to the direction in which Europe is heading in, showed an INSCOP Research poll, which was conducted between March 5 and 13, commissioned by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.According to the poll, whose main theme was the population's opinion on the direction Romania and Europe are heading towards, 72.8 per cent of the Romanians believe that the direction ...