Romania will be unable to manage its EU presidency next year, the country's head of state has warned.
"Romania takes over the presidency of the EU Council in 2019 - a very honourable and demanding position, especially for the government - but we're not prepared for it," the country's president, Klaus Iohannis, said on Monday (12 November) at a meeting of local mayors in Bucharest.
"It's the 12th hour [and] we're totally unprepared," he said.
"A few weeks ago, we said we'd...
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