CONFERENCE As a strategic partner of the USA, Romania considers its mandate
\nat the rotating EU presidency as an opportunity to promote a positive agenda of
\ncooperation between the EU and the USA, Romanian president Klaus Iohannis said
\non Thursday at the annual Transatlantic Conference staged by AmCham in
\nBrussels. Iohannis went on to say that annual trade exchanges between the two
\nentities exceed one trillion dollars creating 7 million jobs in the USA and 5
\nmillion in the EU. On Thursday and Friday the Romanian official is attending the
\nEuropean Spring Council where he is expected to urge the EU members to carry on
\nefforts towards the consolidation and streamlining of the single market in all
\nits dimensions. Several other issues are also high on the summit’s agenda, such
\nas the consolidation of Europe’s economic base, climate change, the future
\nsummit with China as well as ways of fighting disinformation. The European
\nleaders are also to discuss a request by Prime Minister Theresa May for postponing
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PROTESTS Trade unionists from Bucharest’s
\nunderground are picketing the building of the Transport Ministry in Bucharest
\ntoday and tomorrow. They are denouncing the authorities’ indifference towards
\nthe safety issues present in some of the trains. Transporters have again
\nrallied today in downtown Bucharest for their second day of protest. After the
\nprotest rally staged by FORT Federation on Wednesday, the Confederation of
\nAuthorized Operators and Transporters COTAR has mounted its own protests during
\nwhich taxi drivers in Bucharest are calling on the authorities to amend the
\npresent legislation to be able to regulate alternative city transportation,
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TENNIS During the tennis tournament in Miami, Florida, Romanian challenger Irina Begu is today playing the Romanian-born
\nCanadian Bianca Andreescu, who has recently won the Indian Wells tournament.
\nAnother Romanian, Monica Niculescu will be up against Tamara Zidansek of
\nSlovenia, while the best Romanian player Simona Halep will be meeting either Taylor
\nTownsend of the USA or Johanna Larson of Sweden. In the men’s competition, Marius
\nCopil will be up against Albert Ramos Vinolas of Spain while in the women’s
\ndoubles, a Romanian-German pair made up of Simona Halep and Julia Goerges will
\nbe up against Timea Babos of Hungary and Kristina Mladenovic of France. Monica
\nNiculescu of Romania and Abigail Spears of the USA will be playing Anna-Lena
\nGroenefeld of Germany and Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic. Romanians Irina
\nBegu and Mihaela Buzarnescu are meeting the Taiwanese pair made up of Hao-Ching
\nand Latisha Chan, while Raluca
\nOlaru of Romania and Darija Jurak of Croatia will be meeting US players Desirae
\nKrawczyk and Sabrina Santamaria. In the men’s doubles the
\nRomanian-Dutch pair Horia Tecau – Jean-Julien Rojer will be taking on Oliver
\nMarach of Austria and Mate Pavic of Croatia. <\/p>\n
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MIGRATION 4.4 million migrants entered the EU countries in 2017, a figure,
\nwhich includes migration inside the EU, data released by Eurostat today show.
\nThe statistical office of the European Union registered 2.8 million migrants in
\nthe 28 member states from outside the union as well as 1.9 million people who
\nalready were in a member state and migrated to another. At the same time, 3.1
\nmillion migrants have left a state in the EU. More immigrants than migrants
\nhave been registered in 22 EU countries. The number of emigrants exceeded immigrants
\nin six countries, Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. The
\nlargest number of immigrants was reported by Malta (46 per 1,000 inhabitants.
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FOOTBALL Romania’s under-21 football side will today play
\nSpain in a friendly game in Granada. The Romanians will next take on Denmark in
\nMarabella on Monday. All the three sides are qualified for EURO U21 due in
\nItaly in June. Romania’s national football side is making its debut on Saturday
\nin the preliminaries of the European championship 2020 with a match against
\nSweden in Stockholm. In order to qualify for the final tournament Romania has
\nto end on the first two position in group F. Romania’s next game is against the
\nFeroe Islands on Tuesday. Group F also includes Malta Spain and Norway. <\/p>\n
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