SHOW Baneasa Airport in northern Bucharest on
\nSaturday played venue for the biggest air show in Romania, BIAS 2019. The event
\nwas devoted to the celebration of 50 years of activity by the Henri Coanda
\nInternational Airport and 15 years since Romania joined NATO. The 11th
\nedition of BIAS included aerobatics and other feats of spectacular flying
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CANDIDACY About one thousand Social Democrats from the PSD, number one in
\nthe government coalition in Bucharest, on Saturday convened in a congress to
\nlaunch the candidacy of Romania’s incumbent Prime Minister Viorica Dancila for
\nthe presidential election in November. The country’s incumbent president Klaus
\nIohannis has also announced his intention to run for a second term in office
\nwith support from the main opposition party, the National Liberal Party. Dan
\nBarna, leader of the opposition USR-PLUS, will also run for the presidential
\nseat and so will Calin Popescu Tariceanu, leader of ALDE, part of the present
\nruling coalition. Also during the congress, the PSD’s National Executive
\nCommittee has also adopted proposals for the ministers the Prime Minister is going
\nto submit to president Iohannis on Monday. So, the party’s secretary general,
\nMihai Fifor will be heading the Interior Ministry, Ana Birchall will become
\nDeputy Prime Minister for Strategic Partnerships while MP Iulian Iancu will be
\nDeputy Prime Minister in charge of economic affairs. Dana Girbovan had been proposed for the
\nJustice Ministry, but the move attracted a lot of heat from the opposition who
\nrecalled that Girbovan was a staunch supporter of the justice reforms that had
\nbeen proposed by PSD and ALDE with the alleged intention to gain control over
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TENNIS Romanian tennis player Simona
\nHalep, the world’s number 4, will be up against US challenger Nicole Gibbs on
\nTuesday, in the first round of US Open, the year’s last Grand Slam tournament. Four
\nRomanians are on the competition’s main draw. Sorana Cirstea will be taking on
\nKaterina Siniakova from the Czech Republic, Monica Niculescu will play Dayana
\nYastremska while Mihaela Buzarnescu is pitted against Andrea Petkovic of
\nGermany. Another Romanian qualified, Ana Bogdan will meet Harriet Dart of
\nBritain. The only Romanian in the men’s competition, Marius Copil, will be
\nplaying French Ugo Humbert. <\/p>\n
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PLEDGE Countries that suffered at the hands of the
\nNazi Germany and the Soviet Union have pledged to take action for raising
\nawareness about Europe’s totalitarian past, 80 years since the pact that
\ntriggered WWll had been signed. Foreign Ministers from Poland, Lithuania,
\nLatvia, Estonia and Romania have said in a joint statement that the memory of
\nthe victims prompts them to promote historical justice. On Friday, a day
\ndevoted to commemorating the victims of Fascism and Communism, Romania’s
\npresident Klaus Iohannis conveyed a message underlying that honoring these
\nvictims should not be restricted to commemoration alone, but firm action must
\nalso be taken in accordance with the principles of authentic democracy. The
\nhead of the Romanian state went on to say that given the present-day attempts
\nto downplay the crimes of fascism and communism, firmly denouncing the two
\nideologies is a must. Russia has this week made public what it believes to be
\nthe pact’s original documents signed on August 23rd 1939, under
\nwhich Russia and the Nazi Germany pledged not to attack each other. The pact
\nalso contained a secret protocol, under which the territories of other
\ncountries were divided between the two powers. While Poland and the Baltic
\nstates had been entirely occupied, Romania was forced by an ultimatum in 1940
\nto cede to Moscow its eastern territories, which today belong to the Republic
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