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June 4, 2019

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis is today starting consultations with parliamentary parties.

June 4, 2019
June 4, 2019

, 04.06.2019, 14:00

CONSULTATIONS – Romanian President Klaus Iohannis is today starting consultations with parliamentary parties for the implementation of the result of the referendum on justice, held on May 26. According to the Presidency, the best solutions with a view to modifying legislation are to be found. Today Iohannis holds talks with the Liberals, then with Save Romania Union and the Democratic Party of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania and on Wednesday with the People’s Movement Party, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, Pro Europa parliamentary group, the groups of national minorities and the Social Democrats. Over 80% of the participants in the referendum on justice answered YES to both questions.




PROSECUTION – Mircea Sandu, a former president of the Romanian Football Federation (FRF), has been prosecuted for bribe taking, in a case also involving his wife. According to prosecutors, in 2009, while head of the FRF, he took bribe, 152 thousand euros, from two natural persons, one of them representing a legal office. The bribe was given for the FRF to sign two legal assistance contracts with the legal office in 2011, worth 2.47 million euros.




VISIT– The US President Donald Trump continues on Tuesday his state visit to Britain where he has meetings with the outgoing PM Theresa May and with American and British business leaders. On Monday, Trump met with members of the Royal Family and had a private lunch with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. The Queen held a speech and highlighted the American-British cooperation during WW2, when soldiers of both countries fought together to free Europe from the Nazi regime. Donald Trump’s visit marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, and takes place in the context of the Brexit crisis and of PM Theresa May’s forthcoming resignation. The visit ends on Wednesday when President Trump attends a ceremony in Portsmouth, to mark June 6, 1944, when 160,000 British, American, French and other Allied troops landed in Nazi-occupied Normandy in WW2. Donald Trump will then travel to Ireland and France.




MEETING – Secretary of the US Army, Mark T. Esper, thanked Romania for the support offered to the American army as host country, at the end of a meeting with General Nicolae-Ionel Ciuca, the head of the Romanian Army General Staff held on Monday at the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base. Attending the meeting were also the commander of the United States Army Europe, lieutenant-general Cristopher G. Cavoli, US Ambassador to Bucharest, Hans Klemm and head of the Romanian Air Forces, Major General Viorel Pana. Among the topics approached were security at the Black Sea and the Romanian-American military cooperation.




Brussels — The Romanian PM Viorica Dăncilă is in Brussels to hold talks with the president of the EC Jean Claude Juncker, with the first vice-president of the EC Frans Timmermans as well as with the president of the Party of European Socialists Serghei Stanishev, in the context of the recent EP elections. The Romanian PM said she would discuss with the European officials about the Romanian proposal for European Commissioner and also about the positions in the EP. PM Dancila said she would plead for ensuring an adequate and balanced representation at the level of European institutions. (Translated by Elena Enache)

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