Romania

The governments of Romania and of the Republic of Moldova will hold in the upcoming period a joint sitting in Chisinau, Moldovan Premier Pavel Filip announced at the end of the meeting with his Romanian counterpart Viorica Dancila.

Romanian human rights activists expressed anger on Tuesday after the country's anti-discrimination council decided the previous day that Prime Minister Viorica Dancila did not offend people with autism spectrum disorder when she called MEPs "autistic" for opposing changes to the country's justice system.

The Romanian tennis player and once again No. 1 WTA Simona Halep has been granted on Monday night the Honorary Citizen of Bucharest title by General Mayor Gabriela Firea, in a ceremony at Excelsior Theatre.

A group of Bulgarians have been in trouble at the airport in the Romanian city of Timisoara. They took a flight with the low-cost company Ryanair from London, which was supposed to land last night at 20:15 in Plovdiv. Because of the bad weather conditions, the flight was redirected first to Sofia Airport, then to Romania.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Melescanu on Monday chaired the meeting of the Group for European Action of the Republic of Moldova (GAERM), informed MAE in a press release.

The meeting was organized in Brussels on the sidelines of the Foreign Affairs Council, where the Moldovan Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Tudor Ulianovschi was the main guest.

The Arctic storm which has hit Europe descended on Romania and Bulgaria, leading to school closures and disrupting rail traffic, while thousands of emergency workers were mobilized, ABC News reported.

Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans on 1 March will be meeting Speaker of Romania's Chamber of Deputies Liviu Dragnea and members of a select committee on justice legislation.

It is interesting that a large number of them decided not to return from Serbia to their country of origin, but to continue the illegal pathway towards Western Europe, which is presenting a new test to the migration management systems.

Romanian Simona Halep returned to first place in the rankings of professional women tennis players (WTA) on Monday, five weeks after she lost this place to Danish Caroline Wozniacki, after the final lost to her at Australian Open.

Halep now has an advance of 440 points against the Danish, second ranked.

The Humans band will represent Romania at Eurovision 2018, with a song titled "Goodbye", after winning the finals of the National Selection contest that took place on Sunday evening at Polyvalent Hall in Bucharest.