SUMMIT At the end of the ‘Three Seas
\nInitiative’ Summit, which took place in Bucharest in the past two days,
\nRomania’s president Klaus Iohannis said the summit can strengthen the economic
\ndevelopment and can contribute to the EU consolidation. In his opinion,
\nincreased inter-connectivity as well as the economic convergence will contribute
\nto a better cohesion inside the EU. The Romanian official went on to say that
\nthe initiative was aimed at giving an impetus to business contacts and
\ninvestment in the region and announced a decision to accept Germany as a state
\npartner. In turn, the European Commission president, Jean Claude Juncker, at
\nhis first participation in the event, has voiced his support for the ‘Three
\nSeas Initiative’ adding that the rule of law is essential and investments have
\nno sense in its absence. The European official also had a brief meeting at the
\nairport with Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila. Also attending the
\nSummit, the US Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, said that Romania can rely on
\nthe United States in this respect. The next summit of the ‘Three Seas
\nInitiative’ will be taking place in Slovenia. ‘The Three Seas Initiative’ is an
\ninformal political platform at presidential level, which brings together 12 EU
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REFERENDUM Romania’s left wing government approved on Tuesday the technical
\ndetails concerning the staging of a referendum on redefining the family in
\nearly October. Prime Minister Dancila has called on the institutions involved
\nin staging the referendum to show maximum responsibility and take the necessary
\naction shortly. On Monday, Romania’s Constitutional Court ruled that the law on
\nrevising the Constitution to define that the family is the freely consented
\nmarriage between a man and a woman and not between spouses as it is at present,
\nobserves the constitutional provisions. The
\nlaw on revising the Constitution in the sense of redefining the concept of
\nfamily is based on a citizens’ initiative of some Christian organizations that
\nmanaged to obtain 3 million signatures. The initiative is being contested by
\nthe associations defending the civil rights and liberties, including those of
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MEETING Heads of state and government from the EU
\ncountries are to convene in Salzburg, Austria, on Wednesday and Thursday for
\ntalks over the final stage of the Brexit negotiations. The participants are
\nalso expected to have their say on staging an extraordinary session of the
\nEuropean Council on this issue. The proposal was launched by the European
\nCouncil president, Donald Tusk, who recalled that all the details must be
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\nRomania’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected as ungrounded a notification
\nby president Klaus Iohannis over amendments to the law on the functioning of
\nthe Higher Council of Magistracy (CSM), Romanian news agency AGERPRESS reports.
\nAccording to Iohannis, the amendments bear on the CSM’s constitutional role as
\na guarantor of the independence of the judiciary as well as the good
\nfunctioning of the legal inspections. Also on Tuesday, the court admitted the
\npresident’s notification on the law on serving sentences, which it described as
\nunconstitutional as a whole. The CCR has postponed for September 25th
\nthe assessment of the president’s notification over the law on the status of
\njudges and prosecutors. We recall that Klaus Iohannis has lashed out at the
\nlatest amendments to penal legislation, which have also been criticized by the
\nopposition parties in Romania and contested by the country’s High Court of
\nCassation and Justice. <\/p>\n
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