Romania celebrates World Blood Donor Day
Romania and countries around the world celebrate the World Blood Donor Day (WBDD) on June 14. Established in 2004, WBDD is meant to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products. WBDD is also an occasion aimed at thanking blood donors for their voluntary, life-saving gifts of blood. WBDD is one of eight official global public health campaigns marked by the World Health Organization (WHO), along with World Health Day, World Tuberculosis Day, World Immunisation Week, World Malaria Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Hepatitis Day, and World AIDS Day. In Romania, Defence Ministry’s Special Center along with the country’s National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion prepared a series of events aimed at raising awarness of the need of blood. Such a WBDD event was scheduled in the Herăstrău Park of the capital Bucharest on Thursday.
Romanian PM on a three-day visit to Lithuania and Estonia
Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă starts a three-day visit to the Baltic States of Lithuania and Estonia on Thursday. The visit is expected to encourage political dialogue with officials in the two EU member states while confirming close bilateral relations based on shared interests in enforcing EU security on its eastern borders. Ms. Dăncilă is expected to meet her Lithuanian counterpart Saulius Skvernelis and Parliament Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis in the capital Vilnius on Thursday. The Romanian PM is also expected to visit the country’s NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence in Vilnius.
Ms. Dăncilă’s visit to the Estonian capital Tallinn will be the first such visit of a Romanian Prime Minister after the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1991.Viorica Dăncilă will meet the country’s President Kersti Kaljulaid, Prime Minister Juri Ratas and Parliament Deputy Speaker Enn Eesmaa. June 16 will mark the opening of an air route linking the Estonian capital to the Romanian Black Sea port of Constantza. The Romanian city is also expected to host a honorary consulate of the Estonian Republic.
New chief for Romania’s SIE
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis nominated Petru Gabriel Vlase as new head of Romania’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE), according to a statement of the Romanian Presidency issued on Thursday. The nomination went to Parliament for approval. Mr. Vlase is vicepresident of the ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD), a member in the Committee for Defence, Public Order and National Security and member of a joint special parliamentary committee on national security. Petru Gabriel Vlase is born on April 3, 1971 in Romania’s eastern city of Bacău. In 1996, he graduated the Polytechnic University in the capital Bucharest before graduating the Spiru Haret Law School in 2005. Mr Vlase earned a PhD at the National Intelligence Academy in 2007. He also co-authored with Constantin Onişor a book on „Strategic Challenges” in 2007./adanga
Alexandru Danga
