On December 14th, 1948, Romania and India established diplomatic relations, which have greatly progressed in the time since, today reaching the level of an extended partnership. During the 70 years of Romania-India relations, there have been numerous bilateral visits at presidential, ministerial or parliamentary level, including the recent visit in India of the Romanian [...]
Seoul recently hosted the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania, Teodor Meleșcanu. His visit comes after Moon Hee-sang, the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, visited Bucharest last month. The reason for these bilateral visits is something that, unfortunately, few Korean or Romanians are aware of: 2018 marks the 10th [...]
In the context of the forthcoming signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Japan and the European Union, The Romanian Institute for the Study of the Asia-Pacific (RISAP) organized the conference „Romania and the Japan-EU EPA”, on July 9, 2018. This free trade agreement (FTA) is the European Union’s largest FTA to date [...]
Nukes, missiles and economics. On January 12, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe started a diplomatic tour in 6 countries, 3 from Baltic region and 3 from Southeast Europe. The purpose? To discuss the North Korean problem and to improve the economic ties with the European countries. For all the six countries of the tour, [...]
Park Geun-hye, South Korea’s first female President was dismissed from office by the Constitutional Court, after being impeached by Parliament. She joins a short list of heads of state dismissed during their term, next to the last president who suffered such a fate: Brazil’s first female President, Dilma Rousseff. During the last three decades, [...]