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CONDOLENCES<\/strong> Romania’s
\nPresident Klaus Iohannis, the President of the Republic of Moldova Nicolae
\nTimofti and the Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos were among the officials
\nwho on Wednesday paid their last respects to Queen Anne, consort to the last king
\nof Romania, Michael I. On Tuesday, the coffin was taken to the
\nHall of Honour of the Peles Castle in Sinaia, and on Wednesday it was laid in
\nthe throne room of the Royal Palace in Bucharest. Queen Anne’s funeral is
\nscheduled for Saturday and it will be held at the Curtea de Arges monastery,
\nplace of rest for Romanian royalty. Michael I is extremely ill and will not be able to attend his wife’s funeral. Queen Anne died on August 1st
\nin Switzerland.<\/p>\n

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BUDGET<\/strong> The
\nRomanian Government approved on Wednesday the draft executive order to adjust
\nthe current state budget and the social insurance budget
\nfor 2016. The aim is to increase revenues and spending by 2.92
\nbillion lei this year, which is about 655 million Euro. The highest amounts will go to
\nthe ministries of labour, internal affairs, health and education, while the
\nhighest budget slashes are aimed at transportation. This adjustment, the first
\nthis year, was initiated by the Ministry of Public Finance, which justified it
\nwith the fact that the GDP in 2016 has grown, from 167 to 170 billion Euro.<\/p>\n

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INVESTITURE<\/strong> The new Communications
\nMinister Delia Popescu, aged 38, was sworn in on Wednesday by Romania’s
\npresident Klaus Iohannis. Since 2003 she has worked in the IT field, developing
\nand implementing IT systems for electronic public services, for both citizens
\nand businesses. In 2014 she was appointed president of the ‘Digital Agenda for
\nRomania’ Agency, a public institution coordinated by the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

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ORGANIZED CRIME<\/strong> An early investigation shows that the Sky News report on
\nRomanian arms traffickers was staged. The Chief Prosecutor of the Romanian
\nDirectorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism Daniel Horodniceanu
\nhas stated that several searches have been conducted in northern Romania, and
\nthe people appearing in the report were identified. However, they did not have
\nany assault weapons, as the report had presented them, the suspects being
\nhunters and legally owning hunting weapons.
\nAccording to Horodniceanu, evidence has so far shown that the whole
\nthing was staged. The person who put the British reporters in contact with the
\nso called traffickers, a Romanian freelancer settled in England 7 years ago,
\ntold the investigators they had been paid to take part in the video recording
\nand to say certain things. Apparently, the filming crew gave them the costumes
\nthey were wearing in the report, to make them look like smugglers. The Sky News
\njournalists claim that, after two months of negotiations, they were headed towards
\nan isolated area in Romania, where they met with arms traffickers. The weapons
\nhad been allegedly brought from Ukraine, to be further smuggled to Western
\nEurope and the Near East. The Romanian Embassy in London has stressed the very
\nimprecise, incomplete and incorrect nature of the information presented by the
\nreport, aimed at projecting a negative image of Romania among the British
\naudience.<\/p>\n

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AMERICAN SHELF<\/strong> The U.S.
\nAmbassador Hans Klemm inaugurated on Wednesday the seventh American Shelf at
\nPanait Istrati County Library in Braila, eastern Romania. The book collection
\nincludes 136 titles offering access to reference books, classic and
\ncontemporary US literature, English language teaching methodology and English
\nlanguage learning as well as children’s books. The American Shelves are part of
\nthe US Embassy’s outreach program throughout Romania and complement the nine
\nAmerican Corners. American Shelves and American Corners offer authoritative
\nresources about the US and US culture, study in the US, as well as English
\nlearning materials. The other six American Shelves reached Botosani, Galati,
\nBrasov, Sibiu, Drobeta Turnu-Severin and Arad.<\/p>\n

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