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  • July 16, 2019 UPDATE

    July 16, 2019 UPDATE

    REVIEW Romania has confirmed the statute of a full-fledged member by
    holding the EU-rotating presidency, which proves the legitimacy of its
    aspiration towards the ending of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism,
    Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila told the European Parliament on
    Tuesday. According to Dancila, no differences should exist between member
    states. During a review of the Romanian presidency of the European Union in Strasbourg
    on Tuesday, Mrs. Dancila said that Bucharest continues to promote the common
    objective of consolidating the European project and to concurrently achieve the
    country’s integration into the Schengen zone. The mandate, Romania’s first
    since the country’s EU accession in 2007, has been appreciated as a successful
    one, thanks to the results obtained, including 90 legislative files and the
    summit in Sibiu, central Romania. Also in Strasbourg, Viorica Dancila held
    talks with the new president of the European Legislature, Italian Maria
    Sassoli.












    TENNIS Romanian tennis player Patricia Tig on Tuesday clinched a 6-2,
    6-1 win against Anna Bondar of Hungary and thus qualified for the round of 16
    of the BRD Bucharest OPEN, a competition with 250 thousand dollars in prize
    money. Another Romanian, Camelia Begu on Tuesday qualified for the second round
    of the aforementioned competition after a two-set win 7-5, 6-1 against Aleksandra
    Krunic of Serbia. Begu will take on Kaja Juvan of Slovenia in the competition’s
    next stage. Also on Tuesday Romanian
    Irina Bara was eliminated by Australian Jaimee Fourlis in two sets 3-6, 6-7.










    DRILL Romania
    has joined another 11 EU countries to participate in an international military
    exercise called Breeze 2019, unfolding until July 21st in Bulgaria’s
    territorial waters at the Black Sea. The drill has brought together 2,000 servicemen
    from Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Greece, France, Italy, Poland,
    Romania, the US and Turkey. The main objective of the exercise is to increase
    interoperability and interaction between the naval forces of the participating
    countries. A maritime security operation will be simulated during the exercise,
    which involves the participation of 26 warships and auxiliary vessels, as well
    as 10 planes and helicopters, the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 and the
    Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group. Representatives of various
    institutions, NGOs and state-owned organisations are also attending the
    exercise.




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  • April 8, 2019

    April 8, 2019

    DRILL Sea Shield 2019, a military drill involving the
    participation of more than two thousand servicemen from six countries, is
    underway in Constanta, Romania’s main Black Sea port. Participants will these
    days be training in order to be able to respond to various types of attacks, coming
    from submarines, battleships or warplanes in the Black Sea. According to
    Vice-admiral Alexandru Mîrşu, the Romanian Navy Chief of Staff, the structure
    coordinating the exercise, the drill’s scenario is a fictional one being by no
    means provocative. NATO has beefed up its presence in the Black Sea from 80 to
    120 days per year and the NATO Mine Countermeasures Group made up of ships from
    the Netherlands, Canada, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania is proof of the
    Alliance’s commitment to protecting the eastern flank, preventing conflicts and
    keeping peace in the region.












    SPORT As of today until April 14th
    over 600 athletes from 40 countries are attending the European Wrestling
    Championships in Bucharest, a competition where Romania is represented by 30
    athletes. Romania has hosted the aforementioned competition for the second time
    now, after the 1979 edition. Athletes from Romania walked away with five medals
    from the European Championships in 2018: one gold, one silver and three bronze.
    Romanian Elena Andries has won three gold medals, in the jerk, snatch and total
    events of the European Weightlifting Championships in Batumi, Georgia. Cosmina
    Pana and Cristian Marian Luca, also from the Romanian delegation have won two
    bronze medals in the jerk and snatch events of the same competition. 14
    athletes from Romania are participating in the Batumi competition, which offers
    points for qualification for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.












    VOTE The Senate in Bucharest is today debating the simple motion
    tabled by the opposition National Liberal Party and Save Romania Union against
    Justice Minister Tudorel Toader. The document signatories say the tensions that
    are facing the legal system would be defused by the sacking of the current
    justice minister. Another argument is the latest amendments to the Penal and
    Penal Procedure Codes through emergency ordinance is impacting Romania’s legal
    system running against the recommendations of the European institutions. On March
    20th, the Chamber of Deputies rejected another simple motion
    against the Justice Minister.












    NARCOTICS Several cocaine packages have
    washed up on the Romanian shore in tourist resorts. They are the remnants of a
    transport evaluated to weigh around a ton, carried by a boat that capsized two
    weeks ago around the town of Tulcea. Since then, hundreds of gendarmes and
    police divers assisted by prosecutors have swept 90 km of Romanian coastline.
    The police, continuing the search for suspect material washing up on the beach,
    called on people to announce the authorities when finding such packages without
    tampering with them. The police said that the drugs are highly concentrated and
    dangerous if consumed. Organized crime prosecutors claim that the cocaine
    capture has a market value estimated at 300 million Euro. So far, 131 kilograms
    of drugs have been recovered.












    FILE Romania’s chief prosecutor,
    Augustin Lazar has today announced that the Military Prosecutors’ Department
    has submitted to court the indictment in the file of the anticommunist
    revolution of 1989. The file has over three thousand pages, the prosecutor added
    apologizing for the excessively long inquiry period of nearly 30 years. The
    country’s former leftist president, Ion Iliescu, and Deputy Prime Minister Gelu
    Voican have been placed under criminal investigation in this file for crimes
    against humanity committed upon the demise of the communist regime between
    December 22nd and 31st 1989. The aforementioned persons held
    various official positions in the then FSN council, a body that had executive
    and legislative power at the time. The revolution’s official death toll stays
    at over one thousand dead and three thousand wounded, mostly after the collapse
    of the oppressive dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu. Romania was the only
    country in eastern and central Europe which passed from a dictatorship to
    democracy through bloodshed.




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