November 4, 2018
Romanian PM on a visit to the Gulf Area, IMF mission to come to Bucharest
Newsroom, 04.11.2018, 14:08
Visit — The Romanian PM Viorica Dancila is on a 3-day visit to the Sultanate of Oman. This is the first meeting of the two countries’ prime ministers since the establishment of diplomatic relations on May 1st, 1974. The PM Viorica Dancila will participate in the official opening of the Romanian Embassy in the Sultanate of Oman and will inaugurate an honorary consulate. The Romanian PM will meet with his Highness Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud al Said, the Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers in the Sultanate of Oman, and will attend a business forum. The next leg of her tour of the region is Qatar. The high level talks are aimed at consolidating bilateral relations, both from a diplomatic and an economic point of view, the Romanian government officials said. The Romanian PM will end her visit to Qatar on November 8. Last month Viorica Dancila made a tour of the Middle East which included Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. Also on Friday PM Viorica Dancila met with her Israeli counterpart on the sidelines of a regional meeting held in neighboring Bulgaria.
IMF — An IMF mission headed by the IMF chief for Romania, Jaewoo Lee, will be in Bucharest between November 6th to 12th. According to the IMF resident representative in Romania and Bulgaria, Alejandro Hajdenberg, the IMF experts will look into the recent economic and financial developments in Romania, will update the macro-economic prospects and discuss the 2019 budget. At present, Romania does not have a running funding agreement with the IMF, but the financial institution is anually assessing the evolution of the Romanian economy.
Bucharest city hall — The general mayor of Bucharest, Gabriela Firea, will pay a visit to Madrid on Monday. Together with the mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena Castrillo, she will sign a memorandum of cooperation between the two cities in the fields of sustainable development, infrastructure, education, culture and tourism. Gabriela Firea will also meet with Madrid city hall experts specialized in smart cities and infrastructure as well as with the representatives of companies dealing in urban planning and urban governance. The Bucharest general mayor will also participate in the opening of the World Forum on Urban Violence and Education for Coexistence and Peace, and will meet with the president of the Madrid Community, Angel Garrido.
Tennis — The pair made up of the Romanian tennis player Horia Tecau and the Dutch Jean-Julien Rojer is today playing in the doubles final of the ATP Masters tournament hosted by Paris, which has total prizes up for grabs worth 4.8 million Euros. Tecau and Rojer will take on the pair made up of the Spanish Marcel Granollers and the American Rajeev Ram. In Saturday’s semifinals, Tecau and Rojer defeated 2-0, in the sets, the 2nd seeded pair made up of the Americans Mike Bryans and Jack Sock. Their adversaries in the final took advantage of the injury of Croat Mate Pavic, who could no longer team up with the Austrian Oliver Marach. For Tecau this is going to be the 54th doubles final in his career and the 3rd in 2018, after the titles won in Dubai and Winston-Salem.
Dublin — The Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has warned that Brexit undermines the agreement known as “Good Friday Agreement” which put an end to decades of violence in Northern Ireland, the BBC reports. “Anything that pulls the communities apart in Northern Ireland undermines the Good Friday Agreement, and anything that pulls Britain and Ireland apart undermines that relationship,” said Mr Varadkar in an interview to the state television RTE. One of the biggest sticking points in the Brexit negotiations is the Irish border, and the UK government says that nothing that they agree with the EU will risk a return to a hard border. Brexit is scheduled for March 2019. (translation by L. Simion)
