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FOREIGN POLICY<\/strong> – Romanian foreign minister, Lazar Comanescu, on Monday will attend the Foreign Affairs
NATO<\/strong> – NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, has launched a warning to
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<\/p>\n ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN<\/strong> – The electoral campaign for the parliamentary elections
<\/p>\n FILM<\/strong> – <\/strong>Romanian films Sieranevada by Cristi Puiu and Baccalaureate by Cristian Mungiu have reaped a lot of awards at the Listapad, International Film Festival hosted by the Belarusian capital, Minsk, between November 4 and 11. They included: the film press award (Sieranevada), the Yury Marukhin memorial award for best cinematography (Barbu Balasoiu\/ Sieranevada), the special jury award (Baccalaureate), the award for best actress in a supporting role (Lia Bugnar\/ Baccalaureate) and the award for best actor in a leading role (Adrian Titieni\/ Baccalaureate). <\/p>\n RUGBY<\/strong> – <\/strong>Romania’s national rugby team on Saturday defeated the US, 23-10, in a test match played in Bucharest. The winner grabbed the Pershing Cup. This is a trophy initiated in 2014 and offered ever since by the Romanian Rugby Federation to the winner of the confrontations between Romania and the US, in remembrance of the match played during the Military Olympics of 1919, the Inter-Allied Games, organised by the commander in chief of the US Expeditionary Force in Europe, General John Joseph Pershing, to mark the end of WWI. The next preparatory game of the Romanian national rugby team is scheduled for Saturday, when Romania meets Canada in Bucharest. WEATHER<\/strong> -
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\nCouncil meeting, alongside his EU counterparts. The agenda of the meeting,
\nhosted by Brussels, covers such issues as the situation in Turkey, the Eastern
\nPartnership, the developments in the Southern Neighbourhood, with special
\nemphasis being laid on the Syrian file. The stage of implementing the EU Global
\nStrategy for Common Foreign and Security Policy will be approached during a
\ncommon session of the EU foreign and defence ministers, on the same day. On the
\nsidelines of the Council, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and
\nSecurity Policy, Federica Mogherini, on Sunday initiated an informal talk
\nbetween the foreign ministers, including Lazar Comanescu, on the trans-Atlantic
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\nthe US President elect, Donald Trump, saying going alone is not an
\nadvantageous option, either for Europe or for the US. In an article carried by
\nthe British paper The Observer, NATO Secretary General, Jens
\nStoltenberg, said the West is facing one of the biggest security challenges in
\nthe past decades. During his electoral campaign, Donald Trump argued NATO is
\nanachronistic and suggested that Washington will think twice whether it helps
\nor not a NATO ally which comes under attack, if the respective ally hasn’t paid
\nits contribution. News agencies recall that some 70% of NATO’s current spending
\nis covered by the US, but the American leaders have always admitted to taking a
\nhigh interest in maintaining a stable and safe Europe. <\/p>\n
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\non Sunday unveiled several commemorative plates in memory of the 130 people
\nkilled in the terror attacks carried out by Islamist militants in Paris, a year
\nago. President Hollande and
\nthe mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, unveiled a commemorative plate while the name
\nof the victims were read out. On November 13, 2015 Paris was in shock after gunmen opened fire
\nrandomly in the streets and blew themselves up. The largest number of victims,
\n90, were registered at Bataclan Concert Hall, and the rest of victims died in cafes,
\non sidewalks and restaurant terraces in Paris. <\/p>\n
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\nscheduled for December 11, started in Romania on Friday. Some 6,500 people are
\nrunning, on behalf of parties or as independent candidates, for the 466 seats
\nin the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. This
\nelection, the list system has been reinstated; the last time it was used was in
\nthe 2004 elections. The parties credited with chances of going past the
\nrequired threshold to be represented in parliament are: PSD, PNL, USR, ALDE, UDMR and PMP. <\/span><\/p>\n
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\nA wave of cold has taken most Romanian regions in its grip. In the following
\nperiod of time, the weather will continue to be particularly cold for this time
\nof the year. The sky will be overcast and precipitations are likely to fall across
\nthe entire territory. Snowfalls and gusty wind are further forecast in the
\nmountains and in the north. Meteorologists have issued a code yellow alert
\nagainst gale-force wind valid for Eastern Romania until Monday noon.
\nTemperatures will drop below zero, down to minus 10 degrees Celsius in places.
\nGale force wind and snow produced havoc on Sunday, in several regions,
\nparticularly in the mountains and in the northeast. Bad weather conditions
\ndisrupted electricity in several counties, with a considerable impact on air
\ntraffic and the sea and river ports’ activity. (Translated by Diana Vijeu)<\/p>\n