October 16, 2025
A roundup of local and world news
Newsroom, 16.10.2025, 13:55
CONFERENCE The Romanian Foreign Minister, Oana Toiu on Wednesday attended the opening of the State of Europe 2025 conference in Brussels, staged by the European think tank Friends of Europe. This edition held on the occasion of marking 100 years since the birth of the former European Commission president, Jacques Delors, brings together over 200 public personalities from over 40 countries. The head of the Romanian diplomacy has evoked from her own experience of former alumna and a young woman from Eastern Europe, the importance of the European Single market, a project based on the political vision of Jacque Delors as well as the openness president Delors promoted for the European future of the states in Central and Eastern Europe, including Romania, after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
INVESTIGATION Prosecutors with the National Anticorruption Directorate are today conducting searches in Bucharest and its surroundings in a corruption file involving army medical personnel over the period between 2020 and 2023. Legal sources have told Agerpres news agency that searches are being conducted also at the Central Military Hospital in Bucharest as part of this file, which also involves the head of the aforementioned medical unit, military doctor, Florentina Ionita-Radu, who has been leading the hospital for 11 years and has been awarded decorations by Romanian presidents along her entire career.
NATO Nine NATO members have so far announced deliveries of technology and military personnel to contribute to Operation Eastern Sentry designed to protect the countries on the eastern flank of the North-Atlantic Alliance, Romania included, against the possible incidents involving Russian drones and aircraft. All these resources devoted to Operation Eastern Sentry have added to all the others the allies also have on the Eastern Flank.
IMF Romania’s Finance Minister, Alexandru Nazare, is heading the Ministry’s delegation to the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank underway in Washington. High on today’s agenda are meetings with representatives of the international rating agencies Fitch, Moody’s and Standards & Poor’s with Alfred Kammer, the IMF director for Europe and Jeroen Clicq, the IMF Executive Director. The agenda also includes talks with representatives of the business environment, including of the US Chamber of Commerce, as well as with major investors and groups of investors. On Friday, the minister will be participating in the plenary session of the annual meeting of the World Bank and the IMF, when finance ministers and central bank governors of the two institutions are to convene for decision-making and presenting the top priorities of the following period. On the same day, Alexandru Nazare will be having talks with World Bank officials and the EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso. On Saturday, Minister Nazare will be attending the IMF presentation on regional economic prospects.
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