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VISIT Romanian president Klaus Iohannis is continuing his formal visit to Italy. The Romanian official held talks with his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella on issues related to the bilateral consolidated strategic partnership as well as cooperation at European and international levels. Iohannis has underlined the excellent relations between Romania and Italy, relations based on very old historical and cultural ties, as well as on social, economic and human connections at present. Iohannis thanked Italy for the way in which the Romanians are being treated and integrated in that country. We recall that 1.2 million Romanians are currently living in Italy, forming the largest Romanian community abroad. On Sunday the Romanian president joined members of the Romanian community in Italy for a symbolic moment, the projection of the Romanian flag colours on the column of Emperor Trajan, who in 106 a.d. conquered the ancient kingdom of Dacia, located on the territory of the present-day Romania. The Romanian official also met representatives of the orthodox, Greek and Roman Catholic churches on Sunday.
TENNIS Romanian tennis player Simona Halep has reached her 50th week on the first position in the world standings, a WTA ranking published on Monday shows. The Romanian occupies the 11th position in an all-time ranking and next week she will equal the performance obtained by Victoria Azarenka of Belarus on the 10th position with 51 weeks. In this week's ranking Halep's advance against the second position occupied by Caroline Wozniacki rose to 960 points while Angelique Kerber of Germany on the third position is over 2000 points behind the leader.
EMERGENCY DECREE The Romanian Government on Monday passed an emergency decree for amending some justice laws, Romanian Justice Minister Tudorel Toader announced. He explained that the decree was needed to correlate the three justice laws modified this year, and also to include some recommendations of the Venice Commission and requests of the Higher Council of Magistracy. Among the modifications are the increase, from 8 to 15 years, of the minimum number of years of work within the legal system in order to be eligible for leading positions within the Prosecutor's Office with the High Court of Cassation and Justice, the Anti-Corruption Directorate and the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism. In reaction to the emergency decree passed today by the Government, Romania's Prosecutor General, Augustin Lazar, says that amendments to the justice laws have been done hastily and are affecting investigations in the big criminal cases.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT Romania's Agriculture Minister, Petre Daea on Monday sent to Brussels, the documents that Romania needs in order to apply for financial support from the European Commission to combat the effects of the African swine fever. Romania is expected to receive 40 million Euros, an amount which is to be invested in laboratories and the proper medical equipment to detect the disease and rebuild its livestock.
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