Romanian President, Klaus
\nIohannis, will participate on September 23rd in a special European
\nCouncil summit to be held in Brussels, official sources announced on Friday.
\nThe summit was called by Germany in the context of the migrants’ crisis, one
\nday after a special meeting of the EU interior ministers on the same
\nissue. President Iohannis reiterated
\nBucharest’s commitment to taking in 1,785 refugees, although the European
\nCommission wants Romania to provide shelter to a triple number of
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The IMF representative for Romania and Bulgaria, Guillermo Tolosa,
\nsays that in the next 3 years Romania is likely to compete, from an economic
\npoint view, with European states such as Greece, the Czech Republic and
\nPortugal if it has fiscal stability and manages to attract investments mainly
\nin infrastructure. The IMF official confirmed, on the other hand, that the
\nRomanian government paid off its duty to the IMF. Out of the present stand-by
\nloan concluded with the international creditors, due to expire later this
\nmonth, Romania still has to pay back over 4.8 billion euros to the World Bank
\nand the European Commission. PM Victor Ponta has recently said that Bucharest
\nno longer needs loans from the IMF and the European Commission, adding that in
\na period of turmoil in the region and in Europe, concluding agreements with
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Romania’s new ambassador to the USA, George Maior, on Thursday
\npresented his credentials to US president Barack Obama as part of a ceremony
\nheld at the White House. Maior said that Romania had a firm commitment to
\nimproving the business environment, which is vital for attracting American
\ninvestments and boosting trade exchanges. The Romanian diplomat added that the
\nstrategic partnership with the US was a basic pillar for Romania’s foreign and
\nsecurity policy and said that the support granted by the US helped Romania in
\nthe process of democratization, observing human rights and the rule of law. <\/p>\n
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The High Court of Cassation and Justice in
\nBucharest has set Monday as the first day in the trial of Romania’s Prime
\nMinister Social-Democrat Victor Ponta and his party colleague, senator Dan
\nSova, who were indicted on corruption charges by the National Anti-corruption
\nAgency DNA. Ponta is facing several charges such as forgery, conspiracy to
\ncommit tax evasion and money laundering in a case related to the investigation
\ninto legal council contracts at the Turceni and Rovinari power plants. These
\nillegal acts were committed at a time when Ponta was working as a lawyer before
\nhis mandate as a Prime Minister. Former transport minister Dan Sova is being
\ninvestigated for abuse of office. The DNA on Friday called on the Higher
\nCouncil of the Magistrates to investigate whether Ponta’s latest sayings
\nagainst the magistrate working on his file are affecting the independence of
\nthe judiciary. Ponta has written on a social network that the prosecutor
\ninvestigating him is obsessed to advance his career coming up with false facts
\nand situations allegedly occurring 10 years ago. In another development the
\nliberal opposition announced its intention to file a no-confidence vote against
\nthe lack of credibility of the present government caused by the Prime
\nMinister’s legal issues. <\/p>\n
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On Friday Croatia began transporting
\nmigrants on its territory to the border with Hungary. The authorities in Zagreb
\non Thursday closed down 8 border check points with neighboring Serbia. Over 14
\nthousand people have crossed into Croatia since Wednesday. This has become the
\nrefugees’ new route on their way to Western Europe after the closing down of
\nthe Serbian-Hungarian border following clashes between refugees and the
\nHungarian riot police. Hungary started building up a fence at the common border
\nwith Croatia, similar to the one at the Serbian border in order to prevent
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