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ITALY QUAKE<\/strong> On Tuesday, Romania’s PM Dacian Ciolos and
\nLabour Minister Dragos Paslaru attended the funeral held for a second group of
\nvictims of the quake that hit Italy last week and claimed 292 lives. The
\nceremonies in Amatrice, where 10 Romanians died, were also attended by the
\nRomanian orthodox bishop in Italy, Siluan. Also on Tuesday, the two officials
\nvisited the Romanian citizens hospitalised in Rieti. The Romanian Government
\nhas taken special measures to support those who have suffered because of the
\nquake. <\/p>\n

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS<\/strong> Slovakia supports Romania’s joining Schengen because it meets all the required criteria, said in
\nBucharest on Tuesday the Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav
\nLajcak, in a joint press conference with his Romanian counterpart Lazar
\nComanescu. The Slovak minister termed the relations between Romania and
\nSlovakia as excellent and stated the two countries shared the same values
\nwithin NATO and the EU. He recalled the support granted by the Romanian army to
\nhis country in the fight against Fascism in WWII. Miroslav Lajcak, whose country is currently holding the six-month
\npresidency of the Council of the European Union, attended the annual meeting of the Romanian
\nDiplomats. The agenda of the meeting, which lasts until September 1st,
\nincludes topics such as security developments, the future of the EU, Brexit
\nnegotiations, terrorism, migration, economic development. Also, the
\nparticipants are discussing the preparations for Romania’s first turn as EU Council president in the first half of
\n2019 and means to strengthen the role that Romanian missions should play in
\nboosting economic ties, trade exchanges and investments. <\/p>\n

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CEREMONY<\/strong> Romanian Defense Minister Mihnea Motoc
\nand his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian attended on Tuesday in Bucharest
\na ceremony held in memory of the French soldiers who died in Romania during
\nWorld War I. On this occasion, Minister Motoc said that the French official’s
\nvisit was proof of the strong ties between the two peoples. In turn, the French
\nofficial said that the relations between Romania and France were strong and
\nunique and had passed the test of time. On Monday Jean-Yves Le Drian discussed
\nwith Romanian PM Dacian Ciolos means of strengthening NATO’s eastern border,
\nBlack Sea security and combating terrorism. The two officials reiterated their
\ncountries’ commitment to developing the bilateral Strategic Partnership after
\nthe signing of a new roadmap in Paris
\nin June. <\/p>\n

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PROTEST<\/strong> Some two thousand books donated by Bucharesters on Tuesday will be sent to the United States Embassy in Chisinau in protest of the recent statements by the American Ambassador to Moldova, James Pettit, on Romania’s relations with the Republic of Moldova. On Saturday, when Moldova celebrated 25 years of independence from the USSR, the US official said in an interview for the public TV station that Moldova was not Romania, Moldova had its own history and its own challenges, and that getting united with Romania, as a way to join the EU or for any other reason, was not a practical choice and not a choice that would make things better in Moldova. Hailed by the pro-Moscow leftist factions in Moldova, Pettit’s statements have been harshly criticized by the pro-European leaders in Chisinau and by Romanian politicians. Established on a part of the eastern Romanian territories annexed by the USSR in 1940, following an ultimatum, the Republic of Moldova proclaimed its independence from Moscow on August 27, 1991.<\/p>\n

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APPLE<\/strong>
\nThe European
\nCommission has decided that Apple must pay a 13 billion Euro fine for
\nconcluding some preferential fiscal agreements with the Irish state, thus
\nbenefiting from an illegal aid. The European Commission has established that
\nthe Irish state has granted Apple undue tax benefits. For more than 20 years, this
\nselective treatment allowed Apple to pay extremely low corporate tax rates,
\ndown to 0.005% in 2014.<\/p>\n

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FOOTBALL<\/strong> Romania’s
\nnational football squad will play on Sunday, in Cluj-Napoca, north-western
\nRomania, against Montenegro, the first match of the 2018 World
\nCup preliminaries. Romania is playing in the same group E as Denmark, Poland,
\nArmenia and Kazakhstan. The match against Montenegro marks the German Cristoph Daum’s debut at the helm of the Romanian
\nnational squad. He replaced 66-year old coach Anghel Iordanescu after Romania’s failure to make it
\npast the European Championship group stages. They finished bottom in Group A
\nafter losing to hosts France and Albania, and drawing with Switzerland.<\/p>\n


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