Weekly overview in pictures: Moldova’s president travels to Romania | New Police uniforms | Bus tickets for recycled items in Cluj

This weekly overview brings you the main topics from Romania, in pictures. Maia Sandu, the president of Moldova, met with Romanian president Klaus Iohannis during her visit to Bucharest last week. Meanwhile, the new uniforms of the Romanian Police were revealed, military divers located and destroyed a naval mine in the Black Sea, and Cluj-Napoca launched a campaign that allows citizens to swap recyclable items for free bus tickets. See the photo collection for the July 25-31 week below. (Opening photo: Klaus Iohannis and Maia Sandu in Bucharest; photo source: Presidency.ro)

Romanian president Klaus Iohannis and the Moldovan leader Maia Sandu met in Bucharest late last week to discuss Moldova's European path and the country's economic struggles amid the war in Ukraine, ways Romania can support its neighbour, and other topics of interest for the region. In the joint press conference held after the meeting, Sandu said that the war destabilized the energy market and, with it, Moldova's energy security. That, combined with record inflation and the drought, made the situation even more difficult for Moldova. She also thanked Romania for the help offered so far and expressed hopes for further support.

During the same press conference last Friday, the Romanian president also reacted to the racist comments made by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán. During a visit to Romania's Transylvania region, Orbán argued against the "mixing" of European and non-European races, arguing that the Hungarians were racially pure and that they intended to stay that way. Romania's Klaus Iohannis responded last week, saying: "It is a major error, and it is inadmissible for a European dignitary to make such statements built on the theory of races, a theory that led to the most terrible catastrophe of the 20th century, the Second World War."

The new uniforms of the Romanian Police were revealed last week. It is a significant change for the police officers, as the old uniforms had not been changed for 20 years. One of the new versions is darker and slimmer, looking somewhat similar to the one worn by the American policemen.