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Union of Romanian Principalities.<\/strong> Romania and Romanian communities abroad on
\nTuesday celebrated the 158th anniversary of the Union of the
\nRomanian Principalities. On the 24th of January 1859, Alexandru Ioan
\nCuza, who, one week earlier, had been elected ruler of Moldavia, was also
\nunanimously elected by the Elective Assembly of Bucharest ruler of Wallachia
\nand thus proclaimed ruler of the United Principalities. This represented the de
\nfacto union of the two countries inhabited by Romanians. Three years later, on
\nthe 24th of January 1862, this union was recognised internationally
\nand the new state was named Romania. The reign of Alexandru Ioan Cuza
\n(1859-1866) laid the institutional foundations of modern Romania through a
\nseries of radical reforms. In 1918, the process for the creation of a Romanian
\nnation state ended with the union with the Kingdom of Romania of the historical
\nprovinces with a majority Romanian population that had until then been
\ncontrolled by neighbouring multinational empires. After World War Two, however,
\nRomania lost the provinces of Bessarabia and Bukovina. <\/p>\n

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Referendum.<\/strong> President Klaus Iohannis has called a referendum in which citizens will
\nbe able to express their views with regard to the continuation of the fight
\nagainst corruption and ensuring the integrity of public office. On Monday night, the president said the
\ngovernment’s intention to pass two emergency ordinances granting collective
\npardon and amending the criminal code was never discussed during the election
\ncampaign for the parliamentary elections on the 11th of December,
\nbut that the Romanian people have a right to express their views on the
\nsubject. The Social Democratic Party, the senior partner in the ruling
\ncoalition, says the president’s move is politically motivated and an attempt to
\nwin back popular support after the opposition lost the elections. The National
\nLiberal Party and the Save Romania Union, in opposition, said they supported
\nthe president’s move. Last Sunday, Klaus Iohannis took part in a massive
\nprotest held in Bucharest against the government’s proposals. Rallies were also
\nheld in other cities across Romania. Justice minister Florin Iordache says the
\nchanges proposed are needed in order to ease overcrowding in prisons and
\nharmonise the legislation with some Constitutional Court rulings. <\/p>\n

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Strasbourg visit.<\/strong> Romania’s president said an international
\nconference would be held in Bucharest on the 6th of April to discuss
\nthe role played by the majority and the opposition in a genuinely democratic
\nsociety. The conference will be attended by the Council of Europe secretary
\ngeneral Thorbjorn Jagland, who had talks with the Romanian president on Tuesday
\nin Strasbourg. The two officials voiced their concern about the difficult
\npolitical environment in Europe, which has seen a rise in extremism, populism,
\nxenophobia, intolerance and nationalism and attempts to act against fundamental
\ndemocratic values. We agreed that it is essential to act firmly, including by
\nusing the Council of Europe’s instruments, to combat these phenomena, said
\nKlaus Iohannis. The Romanian president also presented the achievements of
\nRomania’s current presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance
\nAlliance. Earlier, at a ceremony to commemorate International Holocaust
\nRemembrance Day, he said it is everyone’s permanent duty to recognise the
\nmistakes of the past and honour the memory of innocent victims. He expressed
\nhis conviction that the Alliance together with the Council of Europe can create
\na pilot programme to train public workers with respect to combating Holocaust
\ndenial and anti-Semitism. On Wednesday, the Romanian president will address
\nthe Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. <\/p>\n

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EU.<\/strong> The
\nminister delegate for European Affairs in the Romanian Foreign Ministry Ana
\nBirchall, who attended an informal meeting of her EU counterparts in Malta,
\nsaid she supported going ahead with major dossiers such as migration, the
\nconsolidation of the Union’s internal security and its neighbourhood and
\nenlargement policy. Romania will continue to contribute actively to the
\ndiscussions about the future of the European Union and stand by the member
\nstates supporting European integration, writes a foreign ministry press
\nrelease. <\/p>\n

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Oscars 2017.<\/strong>
\nAda Solomon is the first Romanian film producer to be in the race for an Oscar
\nfor best foreign language film with the production Toni Erdmann directed by
\nMaren Ade, Hi Film Productions said in a press release on Tuesday. The film,
\nwhich was almost entirely shot in Romania, is the only title from 2016 to be
\nincluded by BBC Culture among the 100 greatest films of the 21st
\ncentury. I find it extraordinary that more than 700,000 viewers in Germany and
\nmore than 500,000 in France had a chance, through this film, to become familiar
\nwith a whole series of Romanian actors and a key character of the story: the
\ncity of Bucharest, an extremely powerful presence in the film and from an
\nentirely different perspective than we have been accustomed to see on the big
\nscreen so far, said producer Ada Solomon. Toni Erdman was first presented at
\nthe Cannes Film Festival last year, where it won the FIPRESCI international
\nfilm critics’ award. The film is about Winfried, an eccentric father and practical joker now
\nretired who makes a surprise visit to his daughter, Ines, a corporate career
\nwoman posted in Bucharest. (Trans.: C. Mateescu)<\/p>\n


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