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Romania's Ovidiu Ionescu qualified on Sunday for the men's singles final of the 2018 ITTF-European Table Tennis Championships in Alicante (Spain) and he will fight for the gold medal against German Timo Boll.

Ovidiu Ionescu defeated Swedish Kristian Karlsson in the semifinal, with a score of 4-1 (12-10, 11-6, 3-11, 11-9, 11-9).

Romania's Ovidiu Ionescu secured a medal in the men's singles event of the 2018 ITTF-European Table Tennis Championships in Alicante (Spain), after qualifying for the semifinals.

AGERPRES Romanian National News Agency Director General Alexandru Giboi was elected Secretary General of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA), on Friday, during the EANA conference held in Warsaw, Poland.

Deputy PM Paul Stanescu on Friday said that the signatories of the letter asking for the resignation of Social Democratic Party (PSD) Chairman Liviu Dragnea are dissatisfied with the latter's political management.

Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu on Wednesday welcomed the American-Romanian Business Council delegation (AMRO), paying a visit to Romania on the sixth annual mission on economy promotion, the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) informs in a press release.

President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker will attend for the first time the Three Seas Initiative Summit on Monday and Tuesday in Bucharest, the Representation of the European Commission to Romania informs on Friday.

President Klaus Iohannis will host the third Summit of the Three Seas Initiative, at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace, September 17-18.

According to a press statement released by the Presidential Administration, the summit in Bucharest will provide a political opportunity to validate the strategic guidelines that underlie the future development of the Three Seas Initiative.

Romania is ready to host an informal summit of heads of state or government of the European Union on May 9, 2019, and "the Romanian government is making the necessary efforts to make the event a success," Romania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) said Thursday in a press statement.

President Klaus Iohannis welcomed a delegation of the European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe, the Venice Commission in short, at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace on Thursday, with the members of this body mentioning that the commission's opinion on the amendments to Romania's Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure is to be adopted at a

Romania's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ion Jinga, on Wednesday delivered a speech to a debate on the reform of the UN peacekeeping operations organised by the US presidency of the United Nations Security Council, according to a press statement released by Romania's Permanent Mission at the UN.