Klaus Iohannis

Romania to Appoint New Spy Chief

Romania's parliament is to vote on Monday whether to appoint Hellvig as the director of the country's intelligence service, SRI, after he was nominated for the post by President Klaus Iohannis.

He is to replace former director George Maior, who resigned at the end of January.

Gabriel Oprea: It is simple and commonsense logic, you don't remove government you are part of

National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) Chairman Gabriel Oprea in Constanta on Saturday mentioned that the political group he represents supports the current Government and keeps its word, as it has proved so far, as it is a party doing politics for the national interest.

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Blaga: PNL governance programme, to set the grounds of partnership with President Iohannis

The unification committee of the National Liberal Party (PNL) approved the PNL governance programme, a document that will set the grounds of the partnership with Romania's President Klaus Iohannis, for the achievement of the project "Romania of things well-done," PNL co-chairman Vasile Blaga told a press conference on Saturday.

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Germany's Merkel Remains Cautious over Romania's Schengen Bid

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis met in Berlin Thursday to discuss the possible Schengen accession of the Balkan country.

"Romania has a legitimate desire to be part of the Schengen Zone. We'll see that we achieve step-by-step progress on this," Merkel said, as quoted by Deutsche Welle.

President Iohannis promises to closely monitor Parliament proceedings on emigration vote

AGERPRES correspondent Florentina Peia reports: The voting procedures for the Romanian citizens abroad is a priority of this session of the Parliament, President Klaus Iohannis declared on Thursday night; he promised to monitor closely 'the way things advance in the Parliament' on this matter.

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Merkel: We mustn't have an undifferentiated attitude towards migration from Romania to Germany

AGERPRES special correspondent Florentina Peia reports: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday said that there mustn't be "an undifferentiated" attitude concerning the migration from Romania to Germany and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said that "poverty migration" isn't significant from a numeric point of view, showing that our country is confronted with a difficult phenomenon, namely

Merkel, about Romania's accession to Schengen this year: I cannot make any statements for now

AGERPRES special correspondent Florentina Peia reports: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday said she cannot make any statements for now concerning a possible accession of Romania to the Schengen area this year.

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President Iohannis: We are counting on Germany's support for identifying solutions on advancing to Schengen accession

President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday told a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Romania is counting on Germany's support for identifying some solutions allowing the advancement to the country's accession to the Schengen area.

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President Iohannis tops confidence poll with 64.6 percent

President Klaus Iohannis tops a poll of Romanians' confidence in politicians with 64.6 percent of respondents placing 'high' or 'very high' confidence in him; he is up from 60 percent in December 2014, in the previous similar poll carried out by INSCOP for the Adevarul newspaper.

Foto: (c) Inscop.ro

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