Section: Romania
ForMin Melescanu attends FAC meeting in Brussels that discusses political, security situation in Ukraine
Romania's Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu attended a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) in Brussels on Monday that discussed current foreign policy affairs such as Ukraine, Syria, the Horn of Africa and Venezuela. For the fifth anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity, the attending foreign ministers reconfirmed the...
Romania’s Halep advances to Qatar Total Open singles final
World number three and top seed Simona Halep of Romania on Friday advanced to the women's singles final of the 916,131-USD Qatar Total Open tennis tournament after defeating Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, world number seven, 6-3 3-6 6-4, as she was led 4-1 in the deciding set. Their head-to-head count is now a 4-4 tie, after Svitolina won the...
Simona Halep qualifies for semis in WTA Doha tournament
Romanian tennis player Simona Halep has qualified on Thursday night for the semifinals of the USD 916,131 WTA Doha tournament after defeating German Julia Goerges, 7-6 (1) 7-6 (6). Halep (27 y/o, WTA #3), main seeded who starting next Monday will climb to #2 WTA, prevailed in two hours. Simona Halep, a champion ever since 2014 and last...
Simona Halep qualifies for quarterfinals in Doha, to climb on second position of WTA rankings
Romanian tennis player Simona Halep qualified for the quarterfinals of the WTA tournament in Doha (Qatar), featuring total prizes worth 916,131 US dollars, after 6-2, 6-3 with Ukrainian Lesia Turenko, a victory that will bring her to the second position in the world hierarchy. Halep, world number three, easily prevailed in one hour and 19 minutes...
#Romania2019.eu/ForMin Melescanu: There is a red line for EU countries that cannot be crossed
Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu stated on Friday, within the informal meeting of the foreign affairs minister of the EU (Gymnich), that two weeks ago when he paid a visit to Chisinau, he conveyed the message that for Romania and for the other member states of the EU there is a red line that cannot be crossed, regarding the fair,...
#Romania2019.eu/Federica Mogherini: Goals achieved through Eastern Partnership would have seemed impossible in my mandate beginning
The goals achieved within the Eastern Partnership (EaP), as well as the commercial and association agreements with Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia and the visa liberalisation would have seemed impossible not necessarily ten years ago, in the beginning of this cooperation format, but also in the beginning of the mandate of the High...
NATO chief Stoltenberg: The good news is that European allies invest more in defense
The US has called on its European allies to contribute more to burden sharing as regards the financing of joint defense, and the good news is that they are investing more in the field, as an additional 100 billion dollars are expected to be allocated for defense spending between 2016 – 2020, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on...
DefMin Les meets NATO SecGen, emphasizes need for strengthened allied Black Sea posture
Minister of National Defense Gabriel Les emphasized, during a meeting in Brussels this Wednesday with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the need to strengthen NATO's posture at the Black Sea by establishing a strong allied land presence in Romania, tasked with deterring and defending the allied territory, a strengthened naval...
#Romania2019.eu/ ForMin Melescanu: The Eastern Partnership represents a priority for Romania’s Presidency at the EU Council
The Eastern Partnership represents a priority for Romania's Presidency at the Council of the European Union and there is hope of carrying out a ministerial meeting in April dedicated to the issues and, especially, to the prospects that the Eastern Partnership will have in the coming years, Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu told...
Tennis: Monica Niculescu, semifinalist in doubles event at Hobart (WTA)
The pairing made of Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu and Chinese player Zhaoxuan Yang qualified on Wednesday for the doubles event of the WTA tournament of Hobart, Australia, with total prizes worth 250,000 USD, after they won 6-1, 6-4 against Romanian – Kazakh pair Raluca Olaru/Galina Voskoboeva. The third seeds won in one hour and...
