February 28, 2016
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Newsroom, 28.02.2016, 12:00
The European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Věra Jourová, is paying a visit to Bucharest on Monday. She will meet with the Romanian PM Dacian Cioloş, the justice minister, Raluca Prună, the labour minister Claudia-Ana Costea as well as with members of the Romanian Parliament. Talks will focus on several topics such as the progress Romania has made in reforming the judiciary, the contribution of the judiciary to the European Commission priorities such as the Single Digital Market and the European Agenda on Security. The European Commissioner will also participate in a round table discussion with NGOs active in the field of policies foe the integration of Roma citizens, in order to discuss Romania’s experience regarding the implementation of the national strategy for the integration of the Roma population.
Hillary Clinton won the South Carolina primary on Saturday, in the race to be Democratic presidential nominee in the November presidential election in the US. Early estimates based on CNN exit polls show Clinton with as much as 3-to-1 lead over Sanders. Clinton received 73.5% of the votes as compared to 26% obtained by her rival, following the counting of 99% of the votes. Clinton also won last week’s elections in Nevada winning 5 more points than Sanders, the primaries in Iowa after which she lost in New Hampshire with 22 points less than Sanders. Last week Donald Trump, representing the Republicans, won the South Carolina primaries winning 32.6% of the votes, thus surpassing his Republican challengers Marco Rubio (22.5%) and Ted Cruz (22.1%).
The European Commission has criticized Belgium for having reintroduced controls at the border with France, for fear of a new flow of immigrants, after Paris announced they would dismantle the refugee camps in Calais. The EC draws attention to Belgium that these border checks can be introduced for a couple of days alone, and not for one month, as the Belgian government announced. The European Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, sent a letter to the Belgian PM, Charles Michel, reminding him that he failed to comply with the procedure and that the motivations of his government are illegal. Avramopoulos warned that, if the situation was not solved, a humanitarian crisis was likely to occur and the Schengen Space would collapse. So far 7 EU countries have reintroduced border checks in order to limit the number of refugees that reach Europe. In 2015 more than one million immigrants reached Europe and more than 100 thousand have entered Greece and Italy since the beginning of 2016.
The 88th edition of the Oscar Awards will take place tonight in Los Angeles. The movies “The Revenant” by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and “Mad Max: Fury Road” by George Miller received 12 nominations and 10 nominations respectively for the “Best Picture” category being the main favorites of the 2016 Academy Awards. Running 3rd in the classification of films that got most nominations is Ridley Scott’s “The Martian”, which is competing in seven categories. The films “Carol” by Todd Haynes and “Spotlight” by Tom McCarthy received, in turn, seven nominations. Nominated in the “Best Foreign Language Film” category is also the Hungarian feature film “Son of Saul” by László Nemes, featuring Romanian actor Levente Molnár. The Academy Awards, the most important distinctions in world cinematography, have been awarded since 1929. (news translated by Lacramioara Simion)
