June 5, 2019 UPDATE

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Newsroom, 05.06.2019, 20:32

TALKS After a new round of talks with leaders of
Parliament parties on the referendum on justice held in Romania last month, the
country’s president Klaus Iohannis on Wednesday announced that he had invited
political parties to sign a pact for strengthening Romania’s European progress.
The document refers to putting the referendum’s results into legislation and
revising the justice laws in keeping with recommendations from the Venice
Commission and the European Commission. Iohannis also proposed that the signatories
of the document pledge to put into legislation a.s.a.p the measures needed for guaranteeing
the Romanian citizens’ right to vote both in the country and abroad. The
statements come after the talks the president held with the representatives of
the ruling PSD and ALDE, the representatives of the People’s Party Movement and
of the minorities in Romania. On Tuesday, the first day of talks, president
Iohannis met with the leaders of the Liberals, the Save Romania Union and UDMR,
the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania.

TENNIS The game pitching Romanian Simona Halep, the defending
champion and the world’s number three tennis player against the young US
challenger Amanda Anisimova in the quarter finals of the Roland Garros
tournament scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed. This would be Anisimova’s
first quarter finals match in a Grand Slam tournament and the winner of this
match will be playing in the semifinals the winner of the game between US
player Madison Keys and Ashleigh Barty of Australia.

WEATHER A yellow warning for unstable weather and heavy
downpours has been issued for the whole Romanian territory until Friday night. The
sky will be overcast in most of the regions and torrential rain as well as
gale-force wind, hail and thunderstorms are expected in the country’s west,
south-west, north and center. Maximum temperatures are ranging between 22 and
30 degrees Celsius. Flood alerts have been issued for several rivers including
the Danube. According to official sources, roughly 160 towns and villages in 28
counties as well as capital Bucharest have been affected by the latest heavy downpours.
Landslides have disrupted traffic on several national and county roads.

(translated by bill)