\nRomania\u2019s Higher Defense Council in Bucharest today will be convening under the heading of President Traian Basescu. High on the agenda are the strategy of the national security industry and prime Minister Victor Ponta\u2019s report on the measures Romania has taken in order to implement international sanctions. Talks will also include Romanian army\u2019s participation in foreign missions over 2014, as well as the national Strategy in the field of civil capacities.<\/p>\n
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A mourning day is being observed in the western Romanian city of Timisoara today, in the memory of the victims of the December 1989 anti-Communist revolution. 24 years are commemorated today since the army has used live rounds and tanks to quash the uprising of the people in Timisoara, who were brave enough to take to the streets against the former communist presiding Nicolae Ceusescu;s regime. All flags of the city\u2019s main institutions have been lowered down at half-mast. Commemoration masses and wreath-laying ceremonies are also held in the city. We recall the revolution sparked in Timisoara and rapidly spread in other cities across the country. It gained its momentum in Bucharest on December 22nd, the same day as Ceausescu;s regime collapsed.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe Child\u2019s Pose\u201d a film directed by the Romanian Calin Peter Netzer has been included on the shortlist of the four feature films most likely to receive an Oscar 2014 nomination for the best foreign production, according to \u201cThe Hollywood Reporter\u201d publication\u2019s site. Also included on the list are the Danish production \u201d The Hunt\u201d, the Iranian film \u201cThe Past\u201d and the Belgian production \u201cThe Broken Circle\u201d. The American Film Academy on December 20 will announce the shortlist including nine films, five of which will then be selected. \u201cThe Child\u2019s Pose\u201d was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2013.<\/p>\n
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Angela Merkel has been confirmed as a German Chancellor for a third term, with a crushing majority, Bundestag\u2019s president Norbert Lammert has announced today. Merkel will be starting a four-year term and will be at the head of a large coalition made of the Christian Democratic Union, the Social Democratic Union and the Social Democratic Party. The new German cabinet has emerged after nearly three months of negotiations that followed general elections. According to the BBC, the so called\u201d grand coalition\u201d is slightly heading towards the left, given that the Social Democratic Party looks set to give more attention to public spending.<\/p>\n
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