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TALKS Negotiators of the European Parliament and of the EU Council on Wednesday ended their first round of talks over the appointment of the European Chief-prosecutor without reaching an agreement. We recall that the former head of Romania's main anti-corruption agency (DNA), Laura Codruta Kovesi, is also running for this position. The next rounds of talks are to be held on 27th March as well as on 4th and the 10th April. We recall that the president of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani has sent an official letter to the Romanian Delegate Minister for European Affairs, George Ciamba informing him that Mrs. Kovesi is the European Parliament's candidate for the position of European chief-prosecutor. The EU Council is backing the French candidate Jean-Francois Bohnert. The European Prosecutor's Office, which is due to commence activity by the end of 2020, is to be an independent office in charge of investigating and prosecuting frauds against the EU budget. The European Chief Prosecutor will have a 7-year mandate, which cannot be extended.
TENNIS Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu is on the main draw of the WTA tournament in Miami, Florida after 6-2, 6-4 win against Katerina Kozlova of Ukraine in the last qualifying round. On Thursday, Romanian challenger Irina Begu is playing the Romanian-born Canadian Bianca Andreescu, who has recently won the Indian Wells tournament. Marius Copil also from the Romanian delegation will be playing Albert Ramos Vinolas in the first round, while in the women's doubles, a Romanian-German pair made up of Simona Halep and Julia Goerges will be up against Timea Babos of Hungary and Kristina Mladenovic of France. Monica Niculescu of Romania and Abigail Spears of the USA will be playing Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany and Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic. Romanians Irina Begu and Mihaela Buzarnescu are meeting the Taiwanese pair made up of Hao-Ching and Latisha Chan. In the men's doubles the Romanian-Dutch pair Horia Tecau - Jean-Julien Rojer will be playing Oliver Marach of Austria and Mate Pavic of Croatia.
SUMMIT Romania constantly affirmed the importance of ensuring a standard of living for citizens as high as possible, Romania's Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said in Brussels on Wednesday during the Tripartite Social Summit unfolding under the motto 'for a stronger united and forward-looking Europe'. The summit, which also brought together representatives of European trade unions and employers associations was co-chaired by the president of the European Council Donald Tusk, the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and by Romania's Prime Minister Viorica Dancila as this country is currently holding the EU rotating presidency. According to Dancila, besides moves at European level, Romania has also taken a series of concrete measures at the domestic level aimed at meeting the convergence objective. Also on Wednesday, Prime Minister Dancila held talks with the First Vice-president of the European Commission Frans Timmermans. According to a spokesperson for the Commission, the two officials confirmed that Romania had stepped up measures aimed at implementing recommendations from the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism and concrete results in this respect could be expected shortly.
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