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SUMMIT The EU informal summit in Sibiu on Thursday, during the Romanian half-yearly presidency of the EU Council, will remain as a remarkable moment in the history of the European project - Romanian president Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday. According to him, the summit will have to provide a clear common vision on the EU's future. During the summit, President Iohannis is expected to present Bucharest's vision over the strategic programme for the following five years, underlining the fact that the agenda of the political players must be the same as that of the European citizens. The European Council president Donald Tusk has proposed the participants to adopt a joint statement, which should convey a message of trust and unity.
AMBASSADOR Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu on Wednesday asked the country's president Klaus Iohannis to recall Romanian ambassador to the United States, George Maior. A communiqué issued by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, shows the proposal came after an analysis of the diplomat's mandate, whose actions do not allow him to promote in a credible manner Romania's interests in the USA, which is a strategic partner of Romania's. In an official report in April, a Parliament Committee in charge of controlling the activity of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) whose director Maior was before his mandate as ambassador in Washington, accused the latter of having used the Service in his personal interest. The Foreign Ministry is also evoking the recently published protocols, which the SRI had concluded with Romania's judicial authorities, through which severe violations of the fundamental rights and liberties of the Romanian citizens or the country's interests were done. President Iohannis has announced he is going to make a decision in this respect upon the EU summit in Sibiu.
ARREST Radu Mazre, the former mayor of Constanta, a Black Sea port in Romania, was apprehended on Wednesday in Madagascar upon an arrest warrant the Romanian authorities issued through the Interpol. The announcement has been made by judicial sources in Bucharest. Mazare has been charged with several crimes in Romania but some files haven't been completed yet. An international search warrant was issued in his name in February after he had been indicted in a file on fictitious land retrocession. The former mayor left Romania in December 2017 after claiming that he had been subjected to political pressure in the penal cases against him.
TENNIS Romanian Simona Halep, the world's number three tennis player has qualified for the quarter finals of the WTA tournament in Madrid after a two-set win, 6-0, 6-0 against Viktoria Kuzmova of Slovakia. Simona will be up against Ashleigh Barty of Australia in the quarters on Thursday. We recall that Halep won the Madrid Tournament twice, in 2016 and 2017. Also on Wednesday Romanian pair Irina Begu / Simona Halep was outperformed 6-3, 6-3 by Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic in the round of 16 of the women's doubles. Already qualified for the quarters, Irina Begu and Mihaela Buzarnescu of Romania will be taking on Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia and Vera Zvonareva of Russia on Thursday.
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