article_snippet: A bungling Romanian government staffer has been sacked after a minister mistakenly handed a gift to A bungling Romanian government staffer German counterpart with a map of France, not Germany, inscribed on it.
article_snippet: Officials were left red-faced after Germany's foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier received a gift from Romania's  Bogdan Aurescu at the end of a news conference marking 135 years of diplomatic relations.
article_snippet: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Germany's foreign minister
article_snippet: Frank-Walter Steinmeier Romanian counterpart Bogdan Aurescu exchange the gift unaware it shows a map of France filled with the colors of the German flag .
article_snippet: Germany's foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier unwittingly holds the brochure aloft after it was given to Germany's foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier by the Romanian government .
article_snippet: Pictures show the two ministers grinning and posing for photos as Germany's foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier receives the gift unaware the obvious error is being displayed to the world.
article_snippet: In February the Romanian embassy in Paris sent out invitations for a reception and accidentally attached a spreadsheet with unflattering descriptions of guests such as 'undesirable' or 'ghastly'.
highlights_snippet: Germany's foreign minister was given gift from the Romanian government .
  
highlights_snippet: Images show Germany's foreign minister displaying the brochure to press photographers .
  