November 28, 2013
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Leyla Cheamil, 28.11.2013, 12:14
The agreements top-ranking authorities in Bucharest have signed during the visit to Romania of the Chinese delegation have unblocked Romania’s exports on the Chinese market, Romania’s Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Thursday, at the end of the visit his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang paid to that country. Ponta wet on to say Chinese investors plan to bring more than 5 billion Euro to Romania. In Bucharest, the Chinese Prime Minister also took part in the second meeting of Prime Ministers from Central and Eastern Europe and China, respectively, as well as in the Central Europe – China Economic Forum. Romania signed several bilateral cooperation agreements with China in the fields of energy, infrastructure transport and IT.
The European Commission has denied allegations in the Bucharest media stating that in the wake of the visit to Romania of the Commission’s experts, it may have changed the limits of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism. The European Commission’s spokesperson Mark Gray has denied that the European Commission in any way intended the change of the limits of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism, adding data related to organized crime. The forthcoming justice report will be presented by the European Commission in early 2014. The European Commission has been monitoring Romania’s progress in the justice sector since Romania has gained access to the European Union in 2007.
Germany and France joined Great Britain in their bid to devise a series of measures to curtail migration within the European Union’s boundaries, fuelling tensions triggered by such initiatives, ahead of the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius, according to today’ s edition of Financial Times. The problem has become center-stage for the European leaders and will be discussed in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, where British Prime Minister David Cameron will provide a detailed presentation of his plan to substantially revise the migration policy. Cameron was also criticized in Brussels, and to that effect the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Laszlo Andor warned Great Britain that it may run the risk of becoming the worst country. In a BBC interview Laszlo Andor accused David Cameron of staging “an excessive and regrettable reaction. “
Lithuania’s capital city today and tomorrow will be playing host to the Eastern Partnership Summit, when the Republic of Moldova will seal the European Union’s Association Agreement, as well as the Free Trade Agreement. Attending the summit in Vilnius are heads of states and government from the European Union’s 28 member states, as well as six former Soviet republics, for which the partnership was created: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. Leading the Romanian delegation is the country’s president Traian Basescu. The attention-grabbing topic of the meeting is Ukraine’s last-minute suspension of its agreements with the European Union.
