October 4, 2015
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Newsroom, 04.10.2015, 12:00
The Romanian prime minister is having talks on Sunday in Amman with King Abdullah II of Jordan. On Saturday the Romanian official had talks with other Jordanian high officials about the stage of bilateral relations and the refugee crisis in the region. The Romanian PM hailed the efforts made by Jordan for managing the crisis, a country which hosts almost 1 million refugees from Syria. Romania wants to intensify cooperation with Jordan and also to contribute to the peace efforts in the Middle East by mediating the contacts between Israelis and Palestinians.
A new protest was held in Chisinau on Sunday by civil society against the high level corruption cases in the Republic of Moldova. The protesters want the corrupt leaders of the country to resign and to hold early elections. However the current power says early elections would push the Republic of Modova into a deep political and economic crisis. The protests have been held for about a month, after the three-party government coalition, that claimed to have a pro-western orientation, was seriously discredited by the disappearance from the country’s banking system of one billion dollars, which accounted for about 15% of the GDP. The pro-Moscow socialist and populist opposition has lately joined the protests that blocked traffic in the center of Chisinau.
The Portuguese president, Anibal Cavaco Silva, said Portugal was at a crossroads of its history and called on the citizens with the right to vote to go to the polls in great numbers in Sunday’s parliamentary election. According to opinion surveys, the center-right government coalition is ahead of the opposition Socialists but they still need more votes to be able to form a parliamentary majority. Sunday’s vote takes places 4 years after the centre-right coalition implemented various austerity measures such as cuts in expenses and tax increases, imposed by the aid agreement concluded with the Euro Zone states.
For a month, 36 thousand soldiers from the NATO member states, Romania included, will participate in the Alliance’s largest drill held in the past 13 years. The exercises will take place simultaneously in areas in Italy, Portugal, Spain, the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, Canada, Norway, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Through this exercise NATO wants to prove and extend its capabilities to respond to current and future threats. The drill is taking place against the backdrop of tension between NATO and Russia regarding the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria and of the refugee crisis.
