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born 1959 Romania
Klaus Werner Iohannis; also spelled Johannis; (born 13 June 1959) is a Romanian politician, physicist, and former pre-university teacher who has been serving as the President of Romania since 2014. He previously served as the mayor of the city of Sibiu from 2000 to 2014.
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The concept of resilience is an important component of our security, as well as a key factor in protecting democracy.
Thirty years after the fall of communism, the democratic and European option is stronger than ever in Romania.
We have advanced the European Agenda in an inclusive manner, with Romania acting as an honest broker and succeeding to achieve impressive results.
We serve our people when working with the United Nations, and each and every citizen needs to see a concrete impact on his or her daily life, and a positive change.
What the European Union does, from my perspective, is well done and it helps everyone. But as it happens in politics, good news are not news and we do not talk about these aspects.
We also need an integrated and innovative approach to respond simultaneously to a whole range of inter-related challenges, such as health, demographic changes, migration, scarce resources, climate change and biodiversity loss, extreme poverty and hunger.
Through my actions, the ones of the parliamentary opposition and through the citizens’ mobilization, Romania succeeded in preserving its pro-European and democratic course and this seems to me the most important achievement of my term.
We have to explain that we face serious threats to security, that terrorism needs a globally coordinated response, that proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery remain existential threats to global security.
Last, but not least, let me remind us that an international organization is as strong as the political willingness of its member States to make it relevant and fit for the times we are living in. Let us all join efforts to achieve the United Nations’ noble goals!
For me, people have always been more important than money. This is why I stressed this principle in my approaches towards the media, but also in the European Council. In some areas we feel the tendency to leave people behind and handle trade our industrial issues.
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