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\npractice by the end of next year as many Eastern Partnership objectives as
\npossible including energy and digital connectivity, participants in a business
\nforum staged by the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest on Tuesday said. The event,
\nheld under Romania’s EU presidency, involved the participation of government
\nofficials and representatives of the EU business environment as well as from
\nArmenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.
\nOver 20 events have been staged during Romania’s mandate at the helm of the
\nEuropean Union with a view to bringing significant progress in the relation
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\nOn the National Flag Day on Wednesday, Romania’s Defence Ministry is staging in
\nmajor cities across the country a series of public events devoted to the
\nnational flag. The National Flag Day, on June 26th was established
\nin 1998 to mark the moment during the Revolution of 1848, when the tricolor was
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JUSTICE Romania’s government would no longer issue emergency ordinances
\nin the field of justice, Prime Minister Viorica Dancila announced on Tuesday also
\nadding the citizens’ opinion would be respected. The Prime Minister went on to
\nsay that any legislative amendment in this field must be subjected to
\ntransparent debates together with professional organizations. In a report
\npublished on Monday, the Venice Commission recommended that the Romanian
\ngovernment drastically limit the use of emergency ordinances in justice and seriously
\nreconsider the need for setting up a special section for the investigation of magistrates,
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GAMES Romanian table tennis players, Ovidiu Ionescu and Bernadette Szocs
\nwalked away with silver from the mixed doubles event part of the European Games
\nunderway in Minsk. On Tuesday night the Romanians were defeated in finals by
\nPatrick Franziska and Petrisa Solja of Germany 3-0. Several athletes from
\nRomania have so far become medalists at the European Games in Minsk. Laura
\nGeorgeta Coman became gold medalist in the 10-meter air rifle event. Dacian
\nBarna and Andreea Bogati stepped onto the second step of the podium in the
\naerobic gymnastics contest and so did Ovidiu Ionescu and Bernadette Szocs in
\nthe table tennis contest. Three Romanians, Daniela Poroineanu, Anda Mihaela
\nValvoi and Alina-Petronela Paunescu have obtained bronze medals in the Sambo
\ncontest of the aforementioned European Games where Romania is being represented
\nby a delegation of 123 athletes. Some of these results are counting towards qualification
\nfor the Olympic Games in Tokyo. <\/p>\n
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