EXTRAORDINARY CONGRESS – The National Executive
\nCommittee of the Social Democratic Party, the main party of the ruling coalition in
\nBucharest today convenes to validate the candidacies submitted for the
\nleadership of the party, as well as to set the agenda of this coming Saturday’s
\nextraordinary Congress. Running for the presidency are six social democrat
\ncandidates. The press has rated the Social Democratic Party’s interim
\npresident, the current incumbent head of the government Viorica Dancila as
\nfavorite. The position became vacant a month ago, when the coalition’s former
\nstrongman, Liviu Dragnea, was indicted and imprisoned on charges of corruption.
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TOP-LEVEL MOLDOVAN VISIT TO ROMANIA – Romania has supported the Republic
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\nof Moldova politically but also financially, through all its projects, the
\nRepublic’s new Prime Minister Maia Sandu told an interview to Radio Romania
\nChisinau, ahead of the visit Sandu will pay to Bucharest next week. Maia Sandu
\nwent on to say talks with the Romanian authorities would mainly focus on the
\ndevelopment of energy or infrastructure projects, for which Chisinau heavily
\nrelies on help from Romania. Maia Sandu also stated neighboring Romania was the
\nRepublic of Moldova’s main supporter in the Republic’s European integration endeavor.
\nSandu was this month sworn in as head of the pro-European government in
\nChisinau. Maia Sandu decided her first official foreign visit would be in
\nBucharest on July 2. Previously, however, Maia Sandu announced she would first
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\nACCESSION CONFERENCE CHAIRED BY ROMANIA – Romania’s Minister Delegate for European
\nAffairs, George Ciamba, as a representative of Romania’s presidency of the
\nCouncil of the European Union in Brussels has chaired the 10th
\nIntergovernmental Accession Conference with Serbia. Attending the conference
\nwere the European Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn
\nand the Serbian European Integration Minister Jadranka Joksimovic. Financial
\nservices is the new negotiations chapter opened with Serbia, in this country’s
\nbid to gain accession to the EU. According to a press release, meeting this
\ntarget towards the end of Romania’s Presidency of the Council of the European
\nUnion ties in with the objective which in Romania’s six-month term was pursued
\nand promoted, generating positive, merit-based results for candidates, capable
\nof encouraging and motivating future progress in key areas of the reform
\nprocess. Minister Ciamba hailed the fact that Romania’s presidency of the
\nCouncil of the EU, with respect to the West Balkans chapter, ended through an
\nintergovernmental Conference with Romania’s neighboring state Serbia, one of
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\nthe of the European Union’s Strategy for the Danube Region, EUSDR, gets
\nunderway in Bucharest today, According to the Romanian Foreign Affairs
\nMinistry, the Forum is the most important event of Romania’s acting presidency
\nof EUSDR, and the last large-scale event held under the aegis of Romania’s
\nPresidency of the Council of the EU which draws to a close on Sunday, June 30.
\nRe-launching the Strategy of the Danube is the eventual aim of Romania’s
\npresidency at EUSDR, while the revision of the action plan is a major step forward
\nto that end, a Foreign Affairs Ministry press release writes. To that effect, Romania
\nstepped up talks to include agriculture and aquaculture in the region’s areas
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\nteam in Bologna on Thursday night sustained a 2-4 defeat by Germany, in the
\nsemifinal of the Under-21 European Football Championship jointly hosted by Italy
\nand San Marino. In the other semifinal, Spain outclassed France, 4-1. Romania’s
\nunder-21 football team have had an en excellent run in the aforementioned
\ntournament. Having qualified for the semifinals, Romania secured their ticket
\nfor the 2020 edition of the Olympic Games in Tokyo. <\/p>\n
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\npresident Vladimir Putin have openly reiterated their friendly relations,
\naccording to Reuters and Agence France Presse, after the two heads of state
\nheld a meeting ahead of the G-20 summit hosted by the Japanese town of Osaka.
\nPresident Trump apparently downplayed the scandal triggered by Russia allegedly
\nhaving a hand in the US presidential election in 2016. However, during the
\nevent, President Trump was vocal in asking President Putin to stay out of the
\nelection process. An appreciable number of Americans eagerly awaited the event
\nin Japan, against the backdrop of the Congress-initiated inquests continuing,
\ntargeting alleged links between Donald trump’s election campaign and Russia. <\/p>\n
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\nFILM FESTIVAL – A new edition of the European Film Festival got underway in the
\ncentral Romanian town of Sibiu on June 28 and will draw to a close on June 30. Among this year’s novelties are seven recent
\nproductions as well as a classic of the 1990s. As Happy as Lazarus a film by
\nAlice Rohrwacher will open the festival. The film scooped the Best Screenplay
\naward at the 2018 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. A France-Belgium co-production,
\nEmmanuel Finkiel’s romantic drama Pain will also be screened at the festival in
\nSibiu. Also screened in Sibiu will be
\nPower Games by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Women in War, a comedy by Benedikt
\nErlingsson, Yesterday by Balint Kenyeres, Sophie’s Son, a film by Elina Psykou
\nand Julia, a film by Elena Martin. Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan’s 1989
\nproduction My Left Foot is the classic to be screened at the European Film Festival
\nin Sibiu. Featuring Daniel-Day Lewis, the film is based on the true story of
\nIrish writer Christy Brown, who suffered from cerebral palsy since early
\nchildhood. Previous editions of the European Film festival were this year
\nhosted by the capital city Bucharest,
\nRamnicu Valcea in the south, Targu Mures in the center as well as by Republic
\nof Moldova’s capital city Chisinau. We recall the Republic of Moldova is a
\nformer Soviet republic, with a predominantly Romanian-speaking population. <\/p>\n
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