NATO.<\/strong>
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Visit.
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Protest.<\/strong>
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Commemoration.<\/strong> The Romanian Prime Minister, the Liberal
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Football.<\/strong>
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\nThe President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis,
\nis participating today, in The Hague, in a preparatory meeting ahead of the NATO
\nSummit, the Presidential Administration has informed. The meeting was organized
\nat the initiative of the Dutch Prime
\nMinister Mark Rutte and the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark, Mette
\nFrederiksen, and will also be attended by the Prime Ministers of Belgium,
\nLatvia, Poland and Portugal, as well as the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg. The meeting aims to
\ncoordinate the common positions and messages of the allied states in the run-up
\nto the NATO Summit to be held in Madrid in late June. The agenda focuses on
\nassessing the security situation in Ukraine following Russia’s aggression,
\ncontinuing assistance to Ukraine, preparing for the Madrid Summit decisions on
\nstrengthening NATO’s deterrence and defense posture on the Eastern Flank of the
\nAlliance, the negotiation process on NATO’s New Strategic Concept and the
\nprospects of Sweden and Finland joining the Alliance.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>The President of France, Emmanuel Macron,
\nis coming to Romania today to salute the 500 French soldiers deployed to a NATO
\nmilitary base since the invasion of Ukraine. France is leading the NATO Battle Group following a decision by the NATO defense
\nministers to strengthen the Alliance’s eastern flank. Paris has also set up a
\nstate-of-the-art ground-to-air defense system in Romania in the face of Russian
\nthreats. According to a statement from the Elys\u00e9e Palace, from Romania
\nPresident Macron will send a very clear message that France remains fully
\nengaged with its NATO allies and other European partners. On Wednesday, in the
\nneighboring Republic of Moldova, he will reaffirm Paris’ determination to help
\nthe country, one of the poorest in Europe and one of the most affected by the
\nRussian invasion of Ukraine. This is Emmanuel Macron’s third visit to Romania
\nsince he became president of France and the first since winning a second term
\nat the end of April.<\/p>\n
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\nRomanian carriers are urging the government
\nto urgently cap gasoline and diesel prices at maximum rates, following the
\nmodel of neighboring states, and point out that new price rises are possible
\nnext month. The Federation of Romanian Transport Operators has announced that
\nthere will be protests at the entrance to gas stations all over the country. On
\nthe other hand, FORT welcomes in a statement the parliamentary legislative
\ninitiative to reduce the VAT on public road passenger transport services to 5%,
\nbut calls on the executive to do this in the form of an emergency ordinance, in
\norder to have immediate effects. <\/p>\n
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\nNicolae Ciuca, has conveyed a message on the 32nd commemoration of the so-called Miners’
\nRaid of June 13-15, 1990, stating that ‘the marathon demonstration of civil
\nsociety against neo-communism was suppressed by instigating some Romanians
\nagainst other Romanians and Romanian society ‘should never again fall victim
\nto diversions and false propaganda’. He has also said that Romania now relies
\non the stability and security given by its membership in the European Union and
\nthe North Atlantic Alliance. We owe it to ourselves to continue consolidating
\ndemocratic values \u200b\u200band integrating Romania into the institutional architecture
\ngenerated together with our Western partners, which offers, especially in such
\nperiods, the guarantee of security and well-being, the prime minister said, 32 years after the
\nviolent repression of anti-communist rallies in Bucharest by miners from the
\nJiu Valley (center-west), instigated by the left-wing power of the time. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Romanian national football team takes
\non the Montenegrin squad tonight, in Bucharest, in the fourth or match of the
\ncurrent edition of the Nations League. The Romanian squad has been defeated
\ntwice so far, by Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and has scored a victory on
\nhome turf, against Finland. The Romanian national team ranks last in the group
\nled by Bosnians, who are also playing today, with Finland. (MM)<\/p>\n
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