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1 1. President Traian Basescu Asks for Gov't Strategy for Black Sea Gas Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ No. 14/ 7th Year POLITICS 1. President Traian Basescu asks for Gov't strategy for Black Sea gas transit to be made via Transgaz 2. BEC - final results: Iohannis 54.43 pct, Ponta 45.56 pct 3. Constitutional Court validates presidential elections: Klaus Iohannis is Romania's President 4. Klaus Iohannis - President-elect (bio) 5. IRES poll: Over 80pct of Romanians expecting Iohannis to make good on his electoral promises 6. Romanian President-elect Iohannis meets Chisinau mayor Chirtoaca 7. Bogdan Aurescu is the new Foreign Affairs Minister and Hegedus Csilla, the new Culture Minister and Deputy Prime Minister 8. Foreign Minister Aurescu, U.S. chargé d'affaires Thompson discuss Strategic Partnership guidelines for 2015 9. Present government coalition benefits from support of 67% of MPs 10. Draft law on amnesty and pardons rejected by Chamber of Deputies 11. The international conference "25 years after the fall of communist dictatorships in Eastern Europe: looking back, looking forward"starts in Bucharest 12. Gorbachev's message to conference "25 Years since the Collapse of Communist Dictatorships in Eastern Europe: Looking Back, Looking Forward" 13. Mast Stepping Ceremony - dedicated to the anti-missile facility Aegis Ashore at the military base at Deveselu 14. MAE does not recognize the so-called Treaty on Allied Relations and Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and Abkhazia ECONOMICS 1. Romania ranks 52 of 189 countries in Paying Taxes 2015 top 2. The cut VAT on meat and meat products, conducting 3.5 billion euros in annual businesses 3. Analysts: Romania needs accelerated economic growth and good policies to adopt euro SOCIAL 1 Arundel House, 4 Palace Green London W8 4QD UK Phone: 0044 (0)20 7937 9666 Fax: 0044 (0)20 7937 8069 e-mail: [email protected] web site: www.london.mae.ro Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Cigarette smuggling, in a slight decrease 2. 38 percent asylum applications less in 2014 compared to previous years CULTURE 1. International Conference of the Bologna Process Researchers POLITIC 1. President Traian Basescu asks for Gov't strategy for Black Sea gas transit to be made via Transgaz President Traian Basescu called on the Government during a meeting of the Romanian Supreme Defence Council (CSAT) to find a strategy that it should also turn into law by which the transit of the natural gas to be drilled for in the Black Sea be made via Romanian gas transporter Transgaz, the Presidential Administration said in a press release. It added the incumbent head of state also asked that the Black Sea natural gas should mainly ensure the consumption demand of Romania and the neighbouring Republic of Moldova, with the surplus to be used for export. The Council members analysed and approved the strategic directions of Romania on the development of the energy infrastructure amid the relevant European developments. The participants in the CSAT concluded that 'the scenarios regarding Romania's involvement in energy infrastructure projects must, beyond commercial reasons, consider the strategic dimension and the contribution to ensuring the national and regional energy security', the President's Office stressed. 2. BEC - final results: Iohannis 54.43 pct, Ponta 45.56 pct Christian Liberal Alliance's candidate Klaus Iohannis got 54.43 percent (6,288,769 votes) in the second round of the presidential elections on Sunday, while Victor Ponta, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party - National Union for Romania's Progress - Conservative Party alliance polled 45.56 percent (5,264,383 votes), according to the final report on the election results the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) published on its website. The total number of the voters who went to the polls was 11,719,344 (64.10 percent), of which 10,042,721 were registered with the permanent voter rolls, 1,569,668 with additional lists and 106,955 have cast their vote in the mobile ballot box. Out of the ballots cast, 1.41 percent were void, namely 166,111. According to the final results released by BEC, the total number of Romanian citizens from abroad who went to the polls was 379,116. 2 Arundel House, 4 Palace Green London W8 4QD UK Phone: 0044 (0)20 7937 9666 Fax: 0044 (0)20 7937 8069 e-mail: [email protected] web site: www.london.mae.ro Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Constitutional Court validates presidential elections: Klaus Iohannis is Romania's President The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) unanimously confirmed the results of the recent presidential elections and validated the election of Klaus Iohannis as Romania's President, CCR president Augustin Zegrean announced."We checked the documents we received from the Central Electoral Bureau. Our examination resulted in no findings that could have changed the elections outcome. The results of the elections were confirmed and Mr. Klaus Iohannis was validated as president of Romania. The decision is to be handed over to the president-elect of Romania in a meeting at midday," Zegrean said. He pointed out he has invited the two presidents, incumbent President of Romania Traian Basescu and president-elect Klaus Iohannis to attend this meeting, as well as former judges with the CCR. Zegrean mentioned he did not invite Prime Minister Victor Ponta, but only the incumbent president of Romania. "Of course it's a special moment. Not often in life one gets the chance to check files on the election of the president of Romania. Not just for me [it's a special moment], but for all my colleagues who have worked on these files," the CCR head said. 4. Klaus Iohannis - President-elect (bio) Sibiu's Mayor Klaus Werner Iohannis was born on June 13, 1959 in Sibiu (central Romania), in a family of Transylvanian Saxons. Between 1979 and 1983, he attended the Faculty of Physics of the "Babes Bolyai" University of Cluj Napoca (central Romania). After graduating from the faculty, he was a teacher at various schools and high schools in Sibiu (1983-1989) and from 1989 to 1997 he was a teacher at the Brukenthal High School in Sibiu. He held the position of deputy general school inspector (1997-1999) and then general school inspector in the Sibiu County School Inspectorate (1999-2000). In 1990 he became a member of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR). In 1997, he became a member of the Education Commission of the FDGR Transylvania, while in 1998 he was elected to the Leadership Committee of the FDGR Sibiu, as well as being elected head of the Education Commission of the FDGR Sibiu. From 2002 to 2013 he was the FDGR president, having been re- elected in 2006 and 2010. He was elected Mayor of Sibiu on June 30, 2000, in the second round of polling, supported by the FDGR. In 2004 he was re-elected with 88.7 percent of the votes. In the local elections of 2008 he gained a new mandate, garnering 83.2 percent of the votes. He was re-elected for a fourth term in office in the local elections of June 10, 2012. 3 Arundel House, 4 Palace Green London W8 4QD UK Phone: 0044 (0)20 7937 9666 Fax: 0044 (0)20 7937 8069 e-mail: [email protected] web site: www.london.mae.ro Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ He initiated numerous contacts with foreign investors and the offices of the European Union. During his tenure, the City of Sibiu was named the European Capital of Culture in 2007 (together with Luxembourg). Following the dismissal of the Boc Government, by adoption of a censure motion by Parliament, Klaus Iohannis was proposed, on October 13, 2009, to President Traian Basescu, by the National Liberal Party (PNL), for the position of Prime Minister, as an independent. The forming of a new technocratic government was supported by the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Conservative Party (PC), and the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR). The head of state refused the proposal twice, designating instead Lucian Croitoru (October 13, 2009) and Liviu Negoita (November 6, 2009). On October 21, 2009, Parliament adopted a political statement of support for Klaus Iohannis' bid as Prime Minister, with 252 votes for and 2 against. Klaus Iohannis joined the PNL on February 20, 2013, remaining a FDGR member, but giving up the chairmanship of the Forum. He was first vice chairman of the PNL, elected on February 23, 2013. On May 2014, he announced his resignation from the post, as well as from the Political Bureau of the party. On June 2, 2014, he was designated ad-interim chairman of the PNL. On June 28, 2014, during the Ordinary Congress of the PNL, he was elected chairman of the PNL. During the same event, the merger between the Democratic Liberal Party and the National Liberal Party was approved, with the party following the merger to be named, also, the National Liberal Party. The Liberals and Democrat Liberals held a joint congress, on July 26, 2014, to approve the statute of the new formation resulting from the merger and of the new electoral alliance — the Christian Liberal Alliance National Liberal Party — Democrat Liberal Party (ACL PNL-PDL). On August 11, 2014, the joint PNL-PDL National Political Bureau, meeting in the Palace of the Parliament, decided to designate the Liberal leader, Klaus Iohannis, as the candidate of the Christian Liberal Alliance in the presidential elections of November 2014. On September 20, 2014, the ACL candidate for the Presidency of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, submitted his candidacy to the Central Electoral Bureau.
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