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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
