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Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has stated during the international conference “Enhancing NATO’s Eastern Flank” on Wednesday that the Black Sea region is still marked by frozen conflicts and latent tensions. “Moreover, we see an increase of the confrontation climate, the ...

Senate Speaker Calin Popescu Tariceanu accuses US Ambassador Hans Klemm of “distorted presentation of the Romanian realities” in the United States. The accusation was made in the context in which the ALDE leader tackled the criticism from Washington to Bucharest ...

The Aegis Ashore anti-missile system installed at the 99 Deveselu Military Base will go through an upgrading in the coming period, a previously planned process, the MoD informs. In the planned period of Deveselu’s upgrading, which will take several weeks, ...

NATO will hold multi-national Sea Shield 2019 naval drills in the Black Sea from April 5 to April 13. Romanian warships and six warships from Bulgaria, Canada, Greece, the Netherlands, Turkey with 2,200 troops will carry out joint combat tasks ...

By Ambassador Hans Klemm The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the most successful alliance in history. Over the past 70 years, NATO has helped to create the most secure, stable, and prosperous period in its members’ history. From deterring ...

The Senate and the Chamber of Deputies meet on Tuesday in a solemn joint plenary session dedicated to the 15th anniversary of Romania’s accession to NATO and the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the North Atlantic Alliance. Lawmakers are ...

US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo has met Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu in Washington, DC, on Monday. Pompeo told Melescanu about the important of fighting against corruption “that undermines the democratic institutions”. “They discussed our close security cooperation ...

The domestic institutions Romanians trust most are the Army and the Church, whereas the foreign institutions they have most confidence in are NATO and the European Union. An INSCOP survey, conducted during March 5-13, upon the request of the Konrad ...

Romanian colonel engineer Marius Cristian Gane will be the president of NATO Committee for budgets as of September 2019. The position is equal to the NATO deputy secretary general. According to Profit.ro,  the selection procedure for this position has begun ...

Romania’s defence expenditures amounted to 1.92% of the GDP in 2018, below the target of 2%, according to the NATO estimates. Romania is thus on the eighth position within the North Atlantic Alliance in terms of the share of local ...