September 12, 2014
A roundup of domestic and international news
România Internațional, 12.09.2014, 12:00
Romanian Government and national bank officials will hold talks next week in Brussels for the first time with IMF and European Commission representatives. According to a communiqué made public by the IMF representative for Romania and Bulgaria, Guillermo Tolosa, the talks will focus on the recent developments in the Romanian economy and the stage of implementation of the policies agreed upon with the European Commission and the IMF in key sectors. They will also tackle the plan of the Romanian authorities for a new budget rectification for 2014. The PM Victor Ponta has pointed out that the ministers who will go to Brussels next week will have technical discussions with the representatives of the international creditors. The official assessment of the precautionary-type agreement Romania concluded with the IMF, the EC and the World Bank will take place at the end of November in Bucharest.
The largest scale cultural exchange between Romania’s and the Republic of Moldova’s national theaters is taking place on Friday in Bucharest and Chisinau. United by a common language, each of the two theatre troupes will perform shows at the other’s headquarters. Supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute the two theater’s tours are also supported by other partners, among which the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation.
The single matches pitting Adrian Ungur against Christian Lindell and Marius Copil against Elias Ymer will open on Friday the competition between Romania’s and Sweden’s Davis Cup teams, counting for a place in the Europe/Africa Zone Group 1. Unfolding according to the system the best match out of 5, Saturday will see the doubles matches between the pairs Horia Tecău/Florin Mergea and Isak Arvidsson/Johan Brunstrom, while on Sunday the last 2 singles will pit Adrian Ungur against Elias Ymer and Marius Copil against Christian Lindell. According to the sports press, the Romanian tennis players, who have more experience than their Swedish adversaries, have more chances to win. The team that will win the competition will remain in Group 1, and the one that loses will play against Latvia or Austria in the playoffs to maintain their current position.
The French President, Francois Hollande, on Friday promised France’s support for the new Iraqi government, after meeting his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad, France Press reports. This is the first visit paid by a foreign president to Baghdad after the start, on June 9th, of the Islamic State jihadists’ offensive in Iraq. The visit takes place against the backdrop of the formation of a coalition around the US meant to defeat this radical organization that is also operating in neighboring Syria. Since the summer, Paris has provided weapons to the Kurdish fighters who are combating the jihadists and has sent humanitarian aid especially to the Christian refugees and the Yazidi minority in the north of the country.
