CONFERENCE – Senate Speaker Nicolae Ciucă is attending the European Conference of Presidents of Parliament, representing the 46 members of the Council of Europe, an event hosted by Dublin, Ireland. Nicolae Ciucă said the meeting will address such topics as the fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine, the role of national Parliaments in the reconstruction of Ukraine, challenges to democracy in times of instability and equality and diversity in public representation. According to the Romanian official, Russia’s unprovoked and unwarranted aggression against Ukraine has led to profound changes in European geopolitics, particularly in the fields of economy, energy and trade. „The Black Sea has become an area of increased interest to the world’s superpowers, and Romania finds itself in a strategic position of being the only member of both the EU and NATO that has land and maritime borders with Ukraine”, Nicolae Ciucă also pointed out.
