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Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis stated on Friday at the end of a European Council meeting that the themes regarding the EU’s permanent structured cooperation in defence does not conflict with what is happening inside NATO. “Within this [European] Council we approved the launching of what is called PESCO [Permanent structured cooperation]. It’s a permanent structured […]

French President Emmanuel Macron will be visiting Romania in the upcoming period, representatives of the Presidential Administration told Agerpres on Friday. President Iohannis met on Friday morning his French counterpart on the sidelines of the European Council summit in Brussels, taking the opportunity to invite Emmanuel Macron to come to Romania. The French head of […]

French President Emmanuel Macron will be visiting Romania in the upcoming period, representatives of the Presidential Administration told Agerpres on Friday. President Iohannis met on Friday morning his French counterpart on the sidelines of the European Council summit in Brussels, taking the opportunity to invite Emmanuel Macron to come to Romania. The French head of […]

Resigning Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu believes that Romania’s image has been damaged by the recent domestic political crisis. Melescanu, who attended on Friday in Cluj-Napoca a public diplomacy forum, answered media questions and stated that any political, economic or any other nature crisis affects the image of any country. He underscored that, many times, […]

President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday on the sidelines of the European Council in Brussels, had a bilateral meeting with the Danish Premier, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, at the latter’s request, a release of the Presidential Administration informs. The talks were focused mainly on the current European Council’s agenda’s topics, as well as on aspects of the […]

Permanent structured cooperation entailing defence and security is one of the most special topics of the European Council meeting, Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis stated on Thursday in Brussels, adding that parallelism with NATO is not intended, but the development of some structures which meet the needs of the European Union. Asked upon arriving at the […]

Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis will be attending, June 22-23, a meeting of the European Council in Brussels, on which side-lines he is scheduled to meet his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, according to the Presidential Administration. “On the side-lines of the European Council summit, Romania’s President, Mr Klaus Iohannis, will also meet France’s President, Mr Emmanuel […]

President Klaus Iohannis was presented on Tuesday in Berlin with the ‘Order of St. George’ by Professor Hans-Joachim Frey, Artistic Director of the SemperOpernball in Dresden. “It is with great pleasure that I receive the ‘Order of St. George’ and I dedicate it to the Romanian – German friendship which we greatly appreciate. The name […]

Iohannis: Romania’s relation with Germany not only strategic, but privileged   Romania’s relationship with Germany is not only of strategic importance, but it is also privileged, Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis stated on Monday at the end of talks he had with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. “For Romania, the relation with Germany is not […]

The interministerial working group regarding Brexit discussed on Monday, at the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) headquarters in Bucharest, about the current files in order to officially launch the negotiations between EU27 and the UK, but also about the stage and decisions that need to be made for preparing Romania’s candidacy in the relocation process of […]