President Klaus Iohannis attends EU Council meeting in Brussels./ Romania has a lot to offer in areas such as agriculture, information technology and industrial production, PM Mihai Tudose tells Trade Winds 2017 US trade mission in Bucharest.
EU. The Romanian president Klaus Iohannis is attending the European Council meeting held today and tomorrow in Brussels. Talks focus on migration, security and defence, the relations between the European Union and Turkey and the North-Korean situation. A meeting of the EU 27 will also be held to discuss the UK's leaving the Union and evaluate the progress made so far in the negotiation process. According to the president's office, Klaus Iohannis will emphasise, among others, the need to monitor the flow of migrants on the Eastern Mediterranean route. As to the latest developments related to the North Korean dossier, Klaus Iohannis is expected to say that Romania will support the efforts of the international community to achieve a peaceful solution to the crisis, with the major goal being the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.
Trade Winds 2017. Romania has a lot to offer in areas such as agriculture, information technology and industrial production, prime minister Mihai Tudose said today in Bucharest at the Trade Winds 2017 US trade mission. He mentioned Romania's sustained economic growth, its partnership with the European Union and NATO and its 20-year long strategic partnership with the United States. The US ambassador to Bucharest Hans Klemm said Romania is Washington's best ally and friend in the region and pointed out this country needs to ensure a predictable and transparent business environment to attract investors. Trade Winds is the biggest trade promotion event organised by the US government aimed at bringing together American and foreign businesses. Its tenth edition, which is under way until the 24th of October in South-Eastern Europe, has at its centre the Romanian capital, which is also hosting a business forum.
Healthcare. Romania has made some progress in the field of healthcare, said the European commissioner for health and food safety Vytenis Andriukaitis in Bucharest, noting however that the area is facing some big funding problems. He said European funds are a key instrument that can make the system work better. Also today, a rally is held in central Bucharest to protest against the legislative changes to come into force in January 2018. Trade unions say these changes will lead to a decrease in salary incomes for healthcare and social assistance employees in Romania. The protest actions began in mid September.
Danube Region. The minister delegate for European affairs Victor Negrescu represents Romania at the 6th annual forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region hosted by Budapest. Talks focus on energy security, the development of regional infrastructure, connectivity and the future of macroregional projects after 2020. The EU Strategy for the Danube Region is a wide-scale project co-initiated by Romania and Austria and officially launched at European level in 2012. It was designed as a community instrument for regional cooperation for the states in the Danube basin.
Ukraine education law. Members of the ethnic Romanian community in Cernauti, western Ukraine, are to meet the Ukrainian education and science minister Lilia Grinevich this weekend to discuss Ukraine's new education law that drastically restricts the access of ethnic minorities to education in their languages. The meeting comes after the ethnic Romanians in Cernauti held protests against this law. On Thursday, in a telephone talk with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko, Romanian president Klaus Iohannis strongly conveyed his discontent with the new education law in the neighbouring country. Ukraine is home to almost half a million ethnic Romanians.
Catalonia. President Klaus Iohannis and foreign minister Teodor Melescanu have reiterated Romania's firm support for Spain's sovereignty and territorial integrity during talks in Bucharest with the Spanish foreign minister Alfonso María Dastis Quecedo. Catalonia's separatist leader Carles Puigdemont today told the government in Madrid that his region has not declared its independence but that it may do so if the central authorities continue what he called their repression, that is if they suspend the province's autonomy.
Europa League. Romania's football vice-champions FCSB, formerly known as Steaua Bucharest, today face the Israeli side Hapoel Beer Sheva in an away match in their third Europa League Group G match. FCSB top the group ranking with a maximum of points, 6, followed by the Czech side Viktoria Plzeň and Hapoel Beer Sheva, both with 3 points. The Swiss side FC Lugano are bottom of the ranking with no points.
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