Romania has the highest security
\nlevel in its contemporary history thanks to its NATO membership, said Romania’s
\nforeign minister Bogdan Aurescu in Podgorita. He attended, alongside his
\ncounterparts from Poland, Croatia, Hungary and Montenegro, a seminar on NATO’s
\nopen door policy. The joint visit, an initiative of the Romanian foreign
\nministry, comes against the backdrop of NATO’s assessment of the progress made
\nby Montenegro in the run-up to its accession. The Romanian minister conveyed to
\nthe Montenegrin authorities his country’s support and encouragement to press
\nahead with the necessary reforms to join the Alliance. Also, minister Aurescu
\nhighlighted the importance of the continuation of NATO’s enlargement and voiced
\nRomania’s support for the accession of the other candidate countries, namely
\nGeorgia, Bosnia-Hertegovina and Macedonia. <\/p>\n
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Hans Klemm, who was appointed by
\npresident Barack Obama as the new US ambassador to Romania, pledged, during a
\nhearing by the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, to consolidate ties
\nwith Bucharest and support the institutions fighting against corruption.
\nRomania, which he described as an excellent ally and strategic partner of the
\nUnited States, has a key role to play to ensure prosperity in south-eastern
\nEurope, Klemm also said. He urged Bucharest to invest in Romania’s energy
\ninfrastructure to contribute to Europe’s efforts to diversify its energy
\nresources. Speaking about Romania’s position vis-\u00e0-vis Russia, Klemm said that
\nRussian propaganda has limited effects in Romania, given the strained
\nhistorical relationship between the two states, and that Romania, unlike its
\nneighbours, is not affected by Moscow’s energy pressures. Romania has not had a
\nUS ambassador for the last two and a half years, with the American embassy in
\nBucharest being run in the meantime by a charge d’affaires. <\/p>\n
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Fresh talks are held today
\nbetween the trade union of air traffic controllers and the Romanian Air Traffic
\nServices Administration. The demands of the former are related to the safety of
\nair traffic, the reduction of the retirement age to 55 years and the signing of
\na new collective employment contract. Trade unionists threaten to go on an
\nall-out strike unless their requests are met. Last week, the Administration’s
\nemployees held a two-hour warning strike, the first in Romania so far, which
\nresulted in the disruption of tens of flights. <\/p>\n
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The leaders of the three
\npro-European parties in the Republic of Moldova, namely the Liberal Democratic
\nParty, the Democratic Party and the Liberal Party, which formed a new ruling
\nalliance, will today make public their nomination for the position of prime
\nminister. According to an agreement between the three parties, the prime
\nminister will be chosen from among the ranks of the Liberal Democratic Party, while
\nthe speaker of Parliament will be a member of the Democratic Party. The three
\nparties, which together hold 55 seats out of Parliament’s 101, agreed in
\nprinciple to create a new parliamentary majority following the resignation of
\nChiril Gaburici’s cabinet on the 16th of June. Since then, the
\ngovernment in Chisinau has been led by interim prime minister Natalia Gherman
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Steaua Bucharest have qualified to the Champions League
\nthird preliminary round despite losing at home 3:2 to the Slovakian side AS
\nTrencin in the return game of the second preliminary round. In the first leg,
\nSteaua won 2-nil. In the third round, they face the Serbian side Partizan
\nBelgrade. Two other Romanian football sides, Astra Giurgiu and FC Botosani, are
\ntoday playing their return games as part of the Europa League second
\npreliminary round. In the first leg, Astra defeated the Scottish side Inverness
\n1-nil, while FC Botosani lost, 1-nil, to the Polish side Legia Warsaw. The
\nthird Romanian team playing in the Europa League, ASA Targu Mures, go straight
\ninto the third round. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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