October 22, 2024
A roundup of local and international news.
Newsroom, 22.10.2024, 13:55
VISIT – Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, will pay an official visit to Montenegro on Wednesday, at the invitation of his counterpart Jakov Milatovic. Talks between the two presidents will focus on political-diplomatic and defense cooperation, support for Montenegro’s European path and the main regional and global security challenges. As regards the sectoral areas of cooperation, opportunities for increasing investments and commercial exchanges and boosting contacts in the fields of energy, tourism, agriculture, internal affairs, research, education and culture will be addressed.
CAMPAIGN – An information campaign of the National Anti-Drug Agency has recently started in several high schools in Bucharest, through a series of interactive events – meetings and workshops – aimed at educating young people about the risks of drug use. The authorities’ message can also reach teenagers through a newspaper, website and social media pages dedicated to the campaign. Romanian athletes with outstanding results joined the National Anti-Drug Agency’s campaign.
MOLDOVA – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bucharest hails the organization by the Chisinau authorities, at high democratic standards, of the presidential elections and the constitutional referendum on October 20 in the Republic of Moldova. The entry into the second round of the elections, with a solid score, of the candidate with the most authentic and deep pro-European commitment, President Maia Sandu, as well as the result of the constitutional referendum, proves, despite the challenges, the citizens’ attachment to the European, democratic future of the Republic of Moldova”, reads a press release. Maia Sandu won the first round of the elections and will face the candidate of the Socialist Party, Alexandr Stoianoglo, in the 2nd round. The referendum on the country’s EU accession passed with a difference of less than 12,000 votes. The EU and the White House welcomed the election results, while Moscow, accused of meddling in the election process, denied its interference and said that the elections had not been free.
DEFENSE – The Romanian Minister of National Defense, Angel Tîlvăr, is making a working visit to Turkey between October 22-24, at the invitation of his counterpart, Yaşar Guler. The two officials will have a bilateral meeting, in which they will discuss the results recorded since the implementation of the MCM Black Sea project and the necessary steps to take in creating the military mobility corridor between Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey, according to the Letter of Intent signed last week at Meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. As part of the visit, Minister Angel Tîlvăr will also have a meeting with Haluk Gorgun, the president of the Defense Industry Agency (SSB) and will participate in the SAHA EXPO 2024 International Defense and Aerospace Exhibition, an important event in the field of aerospace defense and industry organized at the Yeşilkoy Exhibition Center in Istanbul.
APPOINTMENT – The former European Commissioner from Romania, Corina Creţu was appointed interim president of the Agency for Monitoring and Evaluating the Performance of Public Enterprises, by a decision of Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu. She will hold this position until a management team is appointed by competition, in keeping with the law. The establishment of the agency is one of the reforms assumed by Romania in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and which the European Commission considers still unfulfilled. For this reason, the Community Executive has blocked a payment request from Bucharest, in the amount of 2 billion euros.
