Nicușor Dan
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Commercial vessel Khoryv sinks off Romania after suspected drone strike
The Comoros-flagged commercial vessel Khoryv sank in the Black Sea on 23 October, about 24 km from Constanta and outside Romania's territorial waters. Romanian rescuers recovered nine crew members alive and one body, while three people remained missing. Romanian and European officials attributed the suspected attack to Russia and called it a threat to navigation and international law.
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EU opens two more accession clusters with Ukraine after Kyiv passes minority-language education law
On 13 October, the EU officially opened negotiating clusters 2 (Internal Market) and 3 (Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth) in Ukraine's accession talks at the fourth Intergovernmental Conference in Luxembourg. The move followed the Verkhovna Rada's approval — by 266 of 450 MPs — and President Zelensky's same-day signing of a law guaranteeing national minorities and indigenous peoples whose languages are official EU languages the right to education in their native language alongside Ukrainian.