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PLAGIARISM <\/strong> The Romanian Council for Attestation of Academic
\nTitles, Diplomas and Certificates decided on Wednesday to maintain the report
\naccording to which the PhD dissertation of the former Prime Minister Victor
\nPonta was the result of plagiarism and recommended that his PhD title be
\nwithdrawn. This can be done under an order issued by the Ministry of Education.
\nVictor Ponta, a lawyer by trade and a former prosecutor of the General Prosecutor’s
\nOffice defended his PhD thesis in 2003, when he was the head of the Control Corps of the then Prime Minister
\nAdrian Nastase, who was also the coordinator of his paper. Victor Ponta says
\nthat this is a matter of political vendetta and has announced he will challenge
\nthe plagiarism report in court. <\/p>\n

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IMF<\/strong> IMF Experts and Moldovan authorities have
\nreached an agreement regarding a three-year funding program for economic
\nreforms. For the program to be approved by the IMF board this autumn, Chisinau
\nmust adopt a priority set of actions in the financial and banking sectors, which
\nhave been seriously affected by the disappearance of one billion dollars in
\n2014. The Republic of Moldova needs an agreement with the IMF also in order to
\nbe able to unblock other funding sources, especially from the European
\nCommission, as well as to get the first installment of the 150 million Euro
\nloan offered by Romania. <\/p>\n

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VOTING<\/strong> The Romanian Government will submit to
\npublic debate, until mid-August, a draft emergency order on the revision of the
\npostal voting law for Romanians abroad, PM Dacian Ciolos announced on
\nWednesday. Parliamentary elections will be held in Romania at the end of this
\nyear. The National Liberal Party has called on the Government to take several
\nmeasures to facilitate voting abroad, such as increasing the number of polling
\nstations abroad at least to the level of 2014. Also, registration applications
\nby Romanian citizens living abroad should be submitted by electronic post.
\nAccording to the Electoral Authority, over 3,600 applications for registration
\nin the Election Registry were submitted by July 25, 2016. Over 3 million
\nRomanians are currently working abroad legally, most of them in EU countries.<\/p>\n

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BREXIT<\/strong> On Wednesday, the
\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker appointed the French Michel
\nBarnier as Brussels’s chief negotiator for the UK’s exit talks with the EU. The
\nEC President explained he wanted an experienced political figure for this very
\ndifficult job. Michel Barnier, aged 65, was the European Commissioner for
\nFinancial Services between 2010-2014 and Vice-President of the EC. European
\nleaders would like London to make the exit announcement as soon as possible,
\nbut the new PM Theresa May has said she will not officially do that by the end
\nof the year. In the meantime, Great Britain has decided to no longer take on
\nthe rotating presidency of the EU next year. As a result, Romania will hold the
\npresidency six months earlier than initially scheduled, over January – June
\n2019.<\/p>\n

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SOLIDARITY<\/strong> The Romanian Orthodox Church has said that
\nthe attack that took place in a church in northwestern France is a symbolic
\nattack on Europe’s Christian identity, and has voiced solidarity with the
\nFrench people. On Tuesday, two terrorists killed in a barbaric way an 84-year
\nold priest during the religious service he was holding in the presence of
\nseveral people. One of them was seriously injured in the attack. The
\nperpetrators were killed by the police. ISIS has claimed the attack. <\/p>\n

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EXERCISE <\/strong>Over
\nJuly 27th and August 7th, 2700 soldiers from 10 countries are taking
\npart in a large-scale exercise in Cincu, central Romania. Participating are
\nNATO members, namely Romania, the USA, Canada, Poland and Bulgaria, joined by
\nfive members of the Partnership for Peace: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. <\/p>\n

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