July 10, 2018 UPDATE

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Newsroom, 10.07.2018, 19:57

VISIT Currently on a working visit to Brussels Romanian Prime Minister
Viorica Dancila on Tuesday held talks with the president of the European
Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and with other EU officials. Dancila also met diplomats
with Romania’s Representation to the EU during this visit, which was aimed at
stepping up the Romanian government’s dialogue with the European institutions
with a view to Romania’s taking over the EU rotating presidency on January 1st
2019. The Romanian official also met the European Commissioner for regional
policy Corina Cretu with whom she talked about the implementation of the
cohesion policy in Romania. Also on Tuesday, Prime Minister Dancila met Gunther
Oettinger, the European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources. The
Romanian official presented the main objectives Romania is to assume during its
mandate concerning a series of major European files, including the 2021-2027
multi annual financial framework, a priority of Commissioner Oettinger’s
portfolio. The Romanian Prime Minister had earlier met the European
Commissioner for Agriculture and rural Development Phil Hogan.

HANDBALL The Romanian women’s national handball side on Tuesday qualified for
the quarter-finals of the World’s Junior Championships in Hungary after a 28-25
win against Croatia. Sorina Tirca was the best Romanian player with 8 goals
scored during the game. On Wednesday the Romanians will be playing the winner
of the game pitching Hungary against Slovenia. We recall that our athletes
clinched this title two times, in 1995 and 1999.

WEATHER The weather remains unsettled in Romania in the next 24 hours.
Showers and thunderstorms are still expected in the country’s mountainous areas
and in the north-east, but the amount of water will be insignificant this time.
Temperatures are expected to slightly rise as compared to the previous days
ranging between 23 and 31 degrees Celsius. Firefighters, gendarme and police
troops are still involved in various operations aimed at eliminating the
effects of the heavy downpours that have affected scores of towns and villages
across Romania.

BALANCE Romania’s trade balance deficit
increased by more than 12% in the first 5 months of 2018 as compared to the
same period last year, which amounts to more than 5 billion Euros, the National
Institute for Statistics says. Exports stood at 28 billion Euros and imports at
33 billion Euros. In the imports- exports structure, high percentages were
reported in the machines industry, transport equipment and manufactured
products industries.

(translated by bill)