PARTNERSHIP
Romania intends to put into
practice by the end of next year as many Eastern Partnership objectives as
possible including energy and digital connectivity, participants in a business
forum staged by the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest on Tuesday said. The event,
held under Romania’s EU presidency, involved the participation of government
officials and representatives of the EU business environment as well as from
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.
Over 20 events have been staged during Romania’s mandate at the helm of the
European Union with a view to bringing significant progress in the relation
between Eastern Partnership countries and the EU members.
FLAG
On the National Flag Day on Wednesday, Romania’s Defence Ministry is staging in
major cities across the country a series of public events devoted to the
national flag. The National Flag Day, on June 26th was established
in 1998 to mark the moment during the Revolution of 1848, when the tricolor was
adopted as a national symbol.
JUSTICE Romania’s government would no longer issue emergency ordinances
in the field of justice, Prime Minister Viorica Dancila announced on Tuesday also
adding the citizens’ opinion would be respected. The Prime Minister went on to
say that any legislative amendment in this field must be subjected to
transparent debates together with professional organizations. In a report
published on Monday, the Venice Commission recommended that the Romanian
government drastically limit the use of emergency ordinances in justice and seriously
reconsider the need for setting up a special section for the investigation of magistrates,
its institutional structure and functioning principles.
GAMES Romanian table tennis players, Ovidiu Ionescu and Bernadette Szocs
walked away with silver from the mixed doubles event part of the European Games
underway in Minsk. On Tuesday night the Romanians were defeated in finals by
Patrick Franziska and Petrisa Solja of Germany 3-0. Several athletes from
Romania have so far become medalists at the European Games in Minsk. Laura
Georgeta Coman became gold medalist in the 10-meter air rifle event. Dacian
Barna and Andreea Bogati stepped onto the second step of the podium in the
aerobic gymnastics contest and so did Ovidiu Ionescu and Bernadette Szocs in
the table tennis contest. Three Romanians, Daniela Poroineanu, Anda Mihaela
Valvoi and Alina-Petronela Paunescu have obtained bronze medals in the Sambo
contest of the aforementioned European Games where Romania is being represented
by a delegation of 123 athletes. Some of these results are counting towards qualification
for the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
(translated by bill)