TALKS There is a need for a referendum on justice and this is
\ngoing to happen on May 26th, concurrently with the elections for the
\nEuropean Parliament, Romanian president Klaus Iohannis said today at the end of
\nhis talks on this issue with Parliament parties. In his opinion, the Romanians are
\nafraid that ruling Social Democratic Party is going to dominate the country’s
\njudicial system. The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats had already made public
\ntheir decision to boycott the referendum talks. On Thursday, upon talks with
\nopposition parties, PNL, USR PMP, with UDMR as well as the group of national
\nminorities, other than the Hungarian one, president Iohannis said the
\nparticipants endorsed the idea of a referendum. According to Iohannis, the
\nRomanians want a justice system outside the political sphere of influence. The aforementioned
\ntalks have been staged against the background of frequent legislative
\namendments initiated by the ruling PSD-ALDE coalition, which attracted a lot of
\nheat from Romania’s European partners. During the referendum people will have
\nto express their will on several issues, such as banning amnesty and pardon for
\ncorruption crimes as well as emergency ordinances for offenses, penalties and
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MEETING The European Commission has approved all the projects the
\nRomanian government submitted, but I believe more could have been done as there
\nis more money to access, the European Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina
\nCretu said in Bucharest on Friday. The EU official attended the informal
\nmeeting of the ministers in charge of European funds against the background of Romania’s
\nholding the EU rotating presidency. In another development Rovana Plumb,
\nMinister for the European Funds, said the relation the authorities in Bucharest is having with the
\nEuropean Commission is a normal one based on dialogue so that the European
\nmoney Romania deserves may reach this country. Among other things, the meeting
\nagenda also includes investment priorities envisaged by the Cohesion Policy for
\nthe period between 2021 and 2027. Romania’s presidency of the EU Council is
\nunfolding under the motto, ‘Cohesion, a common European Value’ laying emphasis
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SUMMIT The city of Dubrovnik in Croatia is playing venue for the 16+1
\nSummit bringing together leaders from countries in Central, Eastern Europe and from
\nChina. Romania is being represented by Prime Minister Viorica Dancila who is
\nexpected to deliver a speech and participate in a ceremony occasioned by the
\nsigning of a memorandum of understanding over the setting up of a group of
\nexperts for promoting unrestricted trade between Romania and China, the signing
\nof an accord over the export of bees as well a cooperation agreement between
\nthe Chinese Bank of Development and Eximbank. On Thursday, the Romanian Prime
\nMinister met her counterparts from Slovenia and Croatia. <\/p>\n
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INVESTMENT According to Romania’s Central Bank, direct foreign
\ninvestment in Romania rose by 47% in the first two months of this year up to
\none billion Euros as compared to the 704 million Euros in the similar period of
\n2018. 935 new enterprises with foreign capital were registered in the first two
\nmonths of the year, their number being on the rise against the same period last
\nyear. The Netherlands, Austria and Germany are the main providers of foreign
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EXERCISE On Thursday night Bucharest played venue for an exercise involving
\nthe intervention of rescue teams to remove the effects of several explosions
\nallegedly taking place in the city’s underground railway. The exercise in
\nBucharest was part of an ampler multinational military-medical drill, the
\nbiggest in the history of the North-Atlantic Alliance. The drill has been
\nstaged by the NATO Center of Excellence for Military Medicine, Romanian Chief
\nof Staff and the Medical Department of the Romanian Defence Ministry. <\/p>\n
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