Cristina Zaharia

Former Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos on Saturday was elected president of the Liberty, Unity and Solidarity Party (PLUS) at the National Convention of this political entity, with 99.17 per cent of the votes cast "in favour" and 7 "against."

There were also 6 abstentions.

The total number of delegations who voted was 1,557.

Ciolos was the single candidate.

Romania's permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Ion Jinga, on Friday held a speech in the Security Council, in an open debate on "Maintaining International Peace and Security: Assessing the Impact of Natural Disasters Caused by Climate Changes on Peace and International Security," informs a press release sent to AGERPRES.

Bucharest, Jan 26 /Agerpres/ - Romanian handball player Cristina Neagu has been elected the best player in Europ,e in 2018, in a poll conducted by the European Handball Federation (EHF) on its Facebook page, with more than 10,000 fans participating.

This is the second consecutive year when Neagu is awarded this title.

Four us, Romanians, European Union is more than a political integration project, it is a union of souls thinking and vibrating together, Minister of Culture and National Identity, Valer-Daniel Breaz stated on Thursday evening, in his speech at the opening concert of the Romanian Presidency at the Council of the European Union.

The Save Romania Union (USR) asked the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to notify the Venice Commission in respect to the new emergency ordinances that the PSD-ALDE (Social Democratic Party - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats) Government is preparing in the justice field, USR informed in a release on Monday.

Minister-delegate for European Affairs George Ciamba on Monday presented Romania's priorities at the helm of the Council of the European Union during a meeting with the head World Bank's Office in Bucharest (country manager for Romania and Bulgaria), Tatiana Proskuryakova.

Deputy PM Ana Birchall on Monday relayed, at the meeting of the chairs of the Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the European Union (COSAC), the message of Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, underscoring Romania's intention to strengthen, while holding the presidency of the Council of the EU, a Union of pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance and so

Deputy Speaker of the Deputies' Chamber Florin Iordache on Monday stated that Romania's main objective, to be achieved through debates and the documents adopted on the parliamentary dimension of the presidency of the Council of European Union, is to obtain concrete results for the citizens.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Melescanu on Monday will participate in the meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, where foreign affairs ministers of EU member states are set to discuss topical issues, such as combating disinformation, cooperation between EU - the League of Arab States/LAS and the relation between the EU and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations/ASEAN.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, who is currently paying a working visit to Israel, on Friday had a meeting with the Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, among other things discussing the organisation of a joint meeting of the two countries' governments, in the first part of this year.