Weekly overview in pictures: RO swimmers win nine medals at the European Junior Swimming Championships | Bucharest Pride | Neversea festival
The collaboration with Greece in the energy field and facilitating the transport of cereals coming from Ukraine were among the topics on the Government's agenda last week, when Petre Daea was sworn in as the agriculture minister and…
Simona Fodor · Journalist
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The collaboration with Greece in the energy field and facilitating the transport of cereals coming from Ukraine were among the topics on the Government's agenda last week, when Petre Daea was sworn in as the agriculture minister and Cătălin Drulă was elected president of the main opposition party USR. The European Junior Swimming Championships 2022 kept the sports headlines as the athletes representing Romania gathered nine medals, while events such as Bucharest Pride and the music festival Neversea attracted many participants. More of the July 4 – July 10 week's highlights in pictures below.
Petre Daea, the Social Democrat Party's proposal, was sworn in as the new agriculture minister. He has repeatedly served as minister of agriculture in the Social Democrat post-communist governments after a two-decade career in administration during the communist regimes. He replaces Adrian Chesnoiu, who resigned after the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) initiated investigations related to alleged frauds in the hiring process at his ministry.
Prime minister Nicolae Ciucăwas in Greece on the occasion of the operationalization of the Greece-Bulgaria gas interconnector and held talks with Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The two countries decided to update their collaboration in the energy field. The two leaders also discussed finding alternative routes for transporting agricultural production from Ukraine to international markets, and the integration of Romania and Bulgaria into the Schengen Area.
Opposition party Save Romania Union (USR) elected former minister of transport Cătălin Drulă as presidentwith 71.3% of the 18,177 votes expressed. The elections were held after the party's former president Dacian Cioloș resigned in February and afterwards set up another political party. Drulă, who embarks on a four-year term, promised to turn USR into a solid opposition party, which would be able to appoint the prime minister in 2024.
