Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, who started a two-day visit to Croatia on Monday, said
\nhe would convey to the Croatian officials Bucharest’s wish to give a new
\nimpetus to bilateral dialogue and boost regional cooperation. This is Iohannis’
\nfirst visit to Balkans since taking office and the first to Croatia by a
\nRomanian president since this country joined the European Union. His agenda
\nincludes talks with his counterpart Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovich, prime minister
\nZoran Milanovich and Parliament speaker Josip Leko. On Tuesday, the Romanian
\npresident will lay a wreath at a major memorial dedicated to the
\nCroatian victims of war. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\nforeign minister Bogdan Aurescu attended a ministerial meeting of the
\nCentral European Initiative held on Monday in Ohrid, in Macedonia. Talks
\nfocused on regional developments in South-Eastern Europe, the Initiative’s role
\nand activities and regional inter-connectivity. In his speech, Aurescu
\nemphasised the importance of regional cooperation and Romania’s support for the
\nprogramme and priorities of the Macedonian presidency of the Central European
\nInitiative. He said Romania supported the inter-connection of the region’s
\ninfrastructure networks and their integration into the European Union system.
\nOn the sidelines of the meeting, he also met some of his counterparts from the
\nparticipating countries. The Central European Initiative is a forum of regional
\ncooperation that brings together 18 states, including 10 EU (Austria, Bulgaria,
\nthe Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and
\nHungary) and 8 non-EU member states (Albania,
\nBelarus, Bosnia and Hertegovina, Macedonia, the Republic of Moldova,
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The president of
A Romanian Air Force squadron consisting of 22 military, pilots and technical and logistics staff and a Spartan cargo plane take part in the multinational European Air Transport Training exercise under way until the 26th of June in the Portuguese city of Beja. The exercise, which is attended by 550 soldiers from 11 European countries (Romania, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Britain, Holland, Portugal and Sweden), will enable the training of tactics and procedures in the area of daytime and night-time transport missions, low level flights, short-field landing, coordination between air and land forces and response to threats from the air or the ground. <\/p>\n Faced with a possible stockpile of American
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The Performance Market opened on Monday as part of the
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\nthe Republic of Moldova Nicolae Timofti on Monday hailed the vote of the
\nMoldovan citizens, which went mainly to the pro-European parties in Sunday’s
\nlocal elections. He called on the pro-European parties to agree on a
\nparliamentary majority and form a new government, following the resignation of
\nprime minister Chiril Gaburici. The head of the EU delegation to Chisinau
\nPirkka Tapiola also called on the Moldovan authorities to hold talk on the
\nformation of a parliamentary majority as soon as possible. According to
\nMonday’s results, the pro-European parties won two thirds of Moldova’s rayons.
\nIn the capital Chisinau, the current pro-European mayor Dorin Chirtoaca and the
\nformer Communist prime minister Zinaida Greceannyi, who is supported by the
\npro-Russian socialists, will be the contenders for the second election round on
\nJune 28. In the first round, the pro-Russian left won major victories in the
\ncities of Balti, in the north, and Orhei, in the south. <\/span><\/p>\n
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\nheavy weapons in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, Russia would be left
\nwith no other option but to boost its troops and forces on the western
\nflank, said general Yuri Yakubov, a senior official with the Russian
\ndefence ministry. He described the plan as the most aggressive step by the
\nPentagon and NATO since the Cold War. Yakubov made these comments following
\ninformation in the western media that the US plans to deploy tanks, artillery
\nand other heavy weapons in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania,
\nBulgaria and possibly also Hungary. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\ncommemorated on Monday 126years since the death of their national
\npoet, Mihai Eminescu, considered the last of the European Romantics. Cultural
\ninstitutes all over the country held literary seminars, poetry recitals and
\ntheatre performances inspired by the great poet’s work. The majority
\nRomanian-speaking Republic of Moldova also commemorated the event, as well as
\nRomanian communities all over the world. The poet’s birthday, January 15th,
\nhas been declared by Romania and Moldova Day of National Culture. <\/p>\n
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\nInternational Theatre Festival under way in Sibiu. The market brings together
\nmore than 130 performers, companies and cultural managers from 13 different
\ncountries who will be presenting their productions and projects until Saturday.
\nThe festival, which is in its 22nd year and comes to an end on
\nSunday, features tens of theatre, dance, music and circus performances, as well
\nas exhibitions, conferences and book and film launches. More than 60 venues are
\nused, including public squares, churches, historical sites, cafes and bars and
\nconventional performance halls. The Sibiu Theatre Festival is the most complex annual
\nfestival held in Romania, being recognised internationally as the third biggest
\nin Europe in terms of scope and size, after Britain’s Edinburgh and France’s
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\nworld, is seeded first in the WTA Premier tournament in Birmingham worth
\n665,000 dollars, which began on Monday. Halep goes straight into the second
\nround, where faces Britain’s Naomi Broady (world no. 224), who defeated
\nCroatia’s Ajla Tomljanovic (world no. 79) on Monday. The main draw features two
\nother Romanian players: Irina Begu, ranked 29th in the world, who
\nplays against Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia in the first round, and
\nMonica Niculescu, ranked 61st, who plays against the Czech player
\nBarbora Zahlalova-Strycova.<\/p>\n