{"id":100876,"date":"2016-03-06T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/march-6-2016-100876.html"},"modified":"2024-02-15T19:47:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T17:47:51","slug":"march-6-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/march-6-2016-id100876.html","title":{"rendered":"March 6, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>VISIT<\/strong> As of today, Romania&#8217;s President Klaus Iohannis is paying a formal visit&#13;<br \/>\nto Israel and the Palestinian territories. He will meet with Israeli and&#13;<br \/>\nPalestinian officials, as well as with members of the Romanian communities&#13;<br \/>\nliving in the region. According to the Romanian President, the talks he is about&#13;<br \/>\nto hold in Israel with the President, the Prime Minister, the Parliament&#13;<br \/>\nSpeaker and other officials are aimed at improving the relations between the&#13;<br \/>\ntwo countries, which have enjoyed a good collaboration in many fields. Later,&#13;<br \/>\npresident Klaus Iohannis will also hold talks with the president of the&#13;<br \/>\nPalestinian Authority.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>SUMMIT<\/strong> Romania&#8217;s PM Dacian Ciolos will attend in Brussels on&#13;<br \/>\nMonday the EU &#8211; Turkey summit and the informal meeting of members of the&#13;<br \/>\nEuropean Council. On Tuesday, the Romanian MP will hold talks with the&#13;<br \/>\nPresident of the European Council Donald Tusk, about EU internal matters, with&#13;<br \/>\nfocus on the economic situation, employment, the refugee crisis, the Schengen&#13;<br \/>\narea, the relation between the EU and Great Britain and the Energy Union. Also,&#13;<br \/>\ntalks will be held on foreign affairs, such as the eastern neighbourhood, the&#13;<br \/>\nRepublic of Moldova and Syria. Also on Tuesday, PM Ciolos will meet with the&#13;<br \/>\nNATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, with whom he will discuss regional&#13;<br \/>\nsecurity issues: NATO&#8217;s presence in Eastern Europe, the Black Sea Region, the&#13;<br \/>\nstrategic relation between NATO and the EU. The Prime Minister&#8217;s agenda also&#13;<br \/>\nincludes a working visit to the Hague on Wednesday, where he will meet with his&#13;<br \/>\nDutch counterpart Mark Rutte.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>DIASPORA<\/strong> Romanian authorities are preparing several projects aimed at allowing&#13;<br \/>\nthe Romanians working abroad to come back home, says the Minister Delegate for&#13;<br \/>\nRelations with Romanians Abroad, Dan Stoenescu. During the visit he has paid to&#13;<br \/>\nItaly lately, Stoenescu has had meetings with local authorities in Rome and&#13;<br \/>\nBologna, as well as with representatives of the Romanian community in northern&#13;<br \/>\nItaly. According to a communiqu\u00e9 issued by the Romanian Foreign Ministry, the&#13;<br \/>\nmeetings highlighted the importance of constantly promoting the members of the&#13;<br \/>\nRomanian community within the Italian representative and administrative&#13;<br \/>\nstructures.  Minister Stoenescu has&#13;<br \/>\nappreciated the integration support &#13;<br \/>\ngranted by the Italian authorities to the members of the Romanian&#13;<br \/>\ncommunity. The significant contribution of the Romanian community to the good&#13;<br \/>\nfunctioning of the Italian society and economy has also been highlighted.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>VOTING<\/strong> Starting April 1st, Romanians who are living abroad&#13;<br \/>\ncan register in the Voters&#8217; Registry, to thus announce they wish to vote at the&#13;<br \/>\nparliamentary elections due in December 2016. Information is available on the&#13;<br \/>\nForeign Ministry&#8217;s website: <a href=http:\/\/www.mae.ro\/>www.mae.ro<\/a>, under&#13;<br \/>\nthe section titled 2016 Parliamentary Elections &#8211; voting abroad. This section&#13;<br \/>\ncontains the most important information about the legislative background,&#13;<br \/>\nincluding with regard to postal voting, and useful information provided under&#13;<br \/>\nthe information campaign run by the Romanian Foreign Ministry in partnership&#13;<br \/>\nwith the Permanent  Electoral&#13;<br \/>\nAuthority.  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>EUROVISION<\/strong> Romania&#8217;s representative at the 2016 Eurovision song&#13;<br \/>\ncontest will be chosen today by the public, through televoting. There are 6&#13;<br \/>\nfinalists left in the race: Ovidiu Anton, Dream Walkers, Florena, Mihai&#13;<br \/>\nTraistariu, the Doru Todorut &#8211; Irina Baiant duet and Vanotek featuring the Code&#13;<br \/>\n&#038;Georgian. Romania will participate in the second semi-final of the contest&#13;<br \/>\nin Stockholm on May 12th, and the final will be held two days later. The bests&#13;<br \/>\nresults obtained by Romania at the Eurovision song contest are owed to Luminita&#13;<br \/>\nAnghel and Sistem in 2005 and Paula Seling and Ovidiu Cernauseanu in 2010. In&#13;<br \/>\nboth cases Romania came in third.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>TENNIS<\/strong> Romania has won the round against Slovenia, held in Arad, western&#13;<br \/>\nRomania, in the first stage of Davis Cup&#8217;s Europe-Africa Zone Group I. On&#13;<br \/>\nSaturday, the decisive point was won by the pair made up of Horia Tecau and&#13;<br \/>\nFlorin Mergea, who defeated Tomislav Ternar \/ Alijaz Radinski 6-3, 7-6, 7-6. On&#13;<br \/>\nFriday, Marius Copil defeated in three sets Blaz Rola, and Adrian Ungur won the&#13;<br \/>\nmatch against Grega Zemlja.  Sunday is&#13;<br \/>\nto see the last two singles, with Adrian Ungur taking on Blaz Rola and Marius&#13;<br \/>\nCopil playing against Grega Zemlja. Romania&#8217;s next adversary is Spain. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roundup of domestic and international news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":100004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-100876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsflash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>March 6, 2016 - Radio Romania International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/march-6-2016-id100876.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"March 6, 2016 - 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