Romanian president Klaus Iohannis met Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.
Romania wants its institutions and businesses to take part in the reconstruction of Palestinian institutions and the economy, said the Romanian president Klaus Iohannis on Thursday during talks with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas. Romania's contribution to the consolidation of Palestinian institutions forms part of its support for a two-state solution that would see Israel and Palestine coexist in peace and security, Klaus Iohannis explained. President Abbas expressed his satisfaction with the important role played by the graduates of Romanian universities in Palestinian society, saying they constitute an intellectual and professional elite with a significant contribution to Palestinian economic, political and social life. Romania's president on Sunday began a trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories. In Jerusalem, he met his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the speaker of Israel's Parliament, as well as representatives of Israeli citizens of Romanian origin.
Romania's Supreme Defence Council meets on Friday to discuss a decision by the Constitutional Court according to which the Criminal Procedure Code provision that allowed the Romanian Intelligence Service to use surveillance technology in prosecutions is unconstitutional. The intelligence chief Eduard Hellvig said the ruling would have consequences with regard to national security, given the correlation between preventing threats to national security and counteracting related criminal phenomena. He explained the ruling would make it illegal to use the Service's sophisticated surveillance equipment to prosecute espionage and treason, terrorism, cross-border organised crime, cybercrime and top-level corruption, all of which are major threats to national security. Hellvig also said a number of ongoing cases would be affected by the ruling, in particular those involving national security crimes.
The Social Democratic MP Cristian Rizea is on bail subject to legal restrictions pending trial. Earlier, the Chamber of Deputies approved a National Anticorruption Directorate request to detain him, while rejecting the request for his arrest. Rizea is accused of influence peddling, money laundering and persuading others to commit perjury. Prosecutors say he received 300,000 euros from an American citizen to use his influence in a case related to the return of property nationalised by the former communist regime. Rizea rejects the accusations and says he has been under pressure to withdraw from the race to become mayor of one of Bucharest's sectors in the upcoming local elections on June 5th.
Some 130 military from the Republic of Moldova and the United States are taking part in the 2016 Agile Hunter joint military exercise. Hosted by the Training Centre of the Moldova Motorised Infantry Brigade in Balti, the exercise is aimed at consolidating the ability of the Moldovan army to deal efficiently with hybrid warfare threats and to cooperate with foreign partners. The drills will end on March 19 and are part of a training programme that lasts four years. Moldovan defence minister Anatol Salaru has recently said cooperation with NATO member states, including Romania, will contribute to expanding the experience of the Moldovan army, given possible threats of a conflict in the region.
Romania's highest ranked tennis player Simona Halep, currently fifth in the world, on Friday faces the American player Vania King, no. 202, in the second round of the tennis tournament in Indian Wells, the US. Halep, who is the defending champion in Indian Wells, ended 2015 number 2 in the world but had a slow start this year, with two wins and four defeats in the WTA circuit. Also on Friday, another Romanian player, Monica Niculescu, ranked 34th, meets the British player Heather Watson, no. 53. Two other Romanian players, Irina Begu and Alexandra Dulgheru, were eliminated in the first round.
"The Son of Saul", the recipient of this year's Oscar for best foreign language film opens in Romanian cinemas on Friday. "The Son of Saul" is the debut film of director Laszlo Nemes and features the Romanian actor of Hungarian origin Levente Molnar. The film tells the story of a Jewish prisoner in Hungary forced to work for the Nazis at the Auschwitz gas chambers. While working in one of the furnaces, Saul discovers the body of a boy he suspects to be his own son, and embarks on an impossible journey, wanting to save the body from cremation and to give the boy a proper funeral. Levente Molnar, an actor with the Hungarian State Theatre in Cluj Napoca, plays Saul's best friend in the film.
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