MEETING The EU Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom opened in
\nBucharest on Thursday an informal meeting of the trade ministers from the EU
\ncountries, an event staged at a time when Romania is holding the EU rotating presidency.
\nThe EU official together with the Romanian Minister for the business
\nenvironment, trade and entrepreneurship Stefan Radu Oprea have also had a
\ndialogue with citizens. On Wednesday, during the meeting of the Committee of
\nthe Permanent Representatives, the community states validated the political
\nagreement Romania had reached with the European Parliament over the Directive
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JUSTICE Romania’s Justice Minister, Tudorel Toader on Thursday announced
\nhe would launch the procedure of appointing a new prosecutor general as the
\nmandate of the present one, Augustin Lazar, expires in April. Toader said he
\nhad sent a letter to the First Vice-president of the European Commission, Frans
\nTimmermans, briefing the latter over the fresh PSD-ALDE ordinance on amending
\njustice laws. We recall the first amendments attracted a lot of heat from the community
\nexecutive, the right-wing opposition in Bucharest, as well as from the Higher
\nCouncil of Magistrates and from magistrates associations. <\/p>\n
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PRIORITY The Republic of Moldova has been and will continue to be a key
\npriority of Romania’s foreign policy, Romania’s ambassador to the ex-soviet
\nRomanian-speaking republic, Daniel Ionita said on Thursday. The Romanian
\nofficial has voiced hope that no significant backslides will be reported during
\nthe Parliamentary elections due on Sunday in the ex-soviet state. According to
\nthe ambassador the upcoming ballot also has a geopolitical stake. The pro-Russia
\nSocialists of incumbent president Igor Dodon have been credited with most of
\nthe votes, roughly 40%. They are followed by ACUM, a pro-Western right-wing
\nbloc, which might muster 25% of the votes and the center-to-left Democratic
\nParty, the main party of the incumbent pro-Western ruling coalition. <\/p>\n
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TENNIS Romanian tennis player Irina Begu (WTA 72nd) on
\nThursday qualified for the quarter-finals of the WTA tournament in Budapest, a
\ncompetition with 250,000 dollars in prize money, after a two-set win, 6-2, 6-3
\nagainst Evgeniya Rodina of Russia. Also on Thursday, the world’s number two, Simona
\nHalep of Romania, conceded defeat to Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 4-6, 6-4,
\n6-2 in the quarterfinals of the WTA tournament in Dubai. <\/p>\n
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