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  • October 30, 2021 UPDATE

    October 30, 2021 UPDATE

    GOVERNMENT The Senate and the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday decided
    that the ministers proposed by Prime Minister designate, Liberal Nicolae Ciuca
    be heard by the specialised committees on Tuesday and sworn in by Parliament a
    day later. The Prime Minister designate, retired General Nicolae Ciuca, on
    Saturday submitted to Parliament a list of his cabinet and ruling programme,
    which includes, among other things emergency measures aimed at settling
    Romania’s health crisis and offsetting the latest soaring prices in energy. The
    National Liberal Party has opted for a minority government jointly with the
    UDMR, which presently lacks the support it needs for the right number of votes
    in the Legislature. The Prime Minister designate has voiced hope the cabinet proposed
    by him will be endorsed by Parliament adding that the talks with the other
    parties must continue until the last moment. Pundits believe though that a
    rejection of the Ciuca cabinet would pave the way for snap election although
    the Constitution allows president Iohannis to propose a third Prime
    Minister.








    COVID-19 Roughly 89 people have got the anti-Covid
    vaccine in the past 24 hours in Romania, out of whom 57 thousand got the first
    jab. The number of those fully vaccinated in Romania has exceeded 6.2 million
    and the vaccine rollout has been given such a boost of late making the
    authorities to predict that if this pace maintained until the end of the year
    Romania could have a rate of 70% vaccinated. Over 12,100 new infections were
    reported on Saturday as well as 413 fatalities. Roughly 20 thousand people are
    currently being treated in hospitals, out of whom 1858 in ICUs. A medical team
    from Germany has arrived in Romania to asses Covid-infected patients who can be
    treated in hospitals in that country and an aircraft belonging to German air
    forces has been made available for the transport of these patients. In another
    development, Romania is to receive next week a batch of 10 thousand monoclonal
    antibodies as part of the contract the European Commission has signed with the
    producer, Romania’s Health Minister Andrei Baciu has announced. The country’s
    National Committee for Emergency Situations has also updated the list of
    countries and territories with a high-risk of infection with the Netherlands
    and Russia in the red tier. In the yellow zone there are Malaysia, Cuba, Costa
    Rica, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein
    and Jordan.








    TENNIS Romanian Simona Halep on Saturday qualified for the finals of the
    Transylvania Open underway in Cluj, north-western Romania. The competition’s
    odds-on favourite, Halep has outperformed Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine 6-0, 6-1 and
    will be up against Anett Kontaveit of Estonia in the finals. Also on Saturday,
    the Romania-Georgian pair Irina Bara/Ekaterina Gorgodze qualified for the
    finals after a 6-3, 2-6, 10-7 win against Romanian pair Irina Begu/Andreea
    Mitu.








    FIRE On Saturday Romania commemorated 6
    years since the blaze that ripped through the Colectiv night club in Bucharest
    killing 65. Another 150 wounded in the fire caused by fireworks during a rock
    concert on October 30th 2015, are still being treated for the wounds
    they suffered. Religious services and wreath laying ceremonies were held on
    Saturday to the memory of those who lost their lives in the disaster. The
    survivors, relatives of the victims together with representatives of the civil
    society have called into attention the fact that little has changed in the
    country’s healthcare system since then. Six years on from the tragedy, the
    survivors who are still undergoing treatment, have pointed to the fact that the
    infections in hospitals around Romania are still unreported and unmonitored.
    Romania still lacks burn care facilities for the treatment and recovery of
    those who suffered severe burns. The court trial opened shortly after the event
    is still underway.







    (bill)

  • April 14, 2019

    April 14, 2019

    SOLDIERS The four Romanian servicemen wounded in a bomb attack in
    Afghanistan on Saturday are now out of danger. An improvised explosive device went
    off close to the military vehicles of the Romanian Battalion 300 Saint Andrew
    on a patrol mission on that day. The explosion was followed by an attack with
    light infantry weapons by insurgents, which was repelled with support from
    the US ground and air troops. The four wounded soldiers were stabilized and
    transferred to the Kandahar Air base. In 2019, the Romanian army will dispatch
    780 servicemen to Afghanistan, the Romanian defense ministry announced last
    year. Romanian Battalion 300 participates in a NATO- coordinated mission, which
    has brought together 16 thousand servicemen from 40 countries. The most
    numerous contingents have been deployed by the USA, 85 hundred soldiers,
    Germany 13 hundred and Italy with 9
    hundred.










    POLL
    Romania’s main opposition party, the National Liberal Party (PNL) estimates the
    turnout in the EU parliamentary elections on May 26th and the
    referendum on justice around 50%. Liberal leader Ludovic Orban believes
    the Foreign Ministry will open only few polling stations for the Romanians
    abroad and voiced his concern about this situation. According to Orban, most of
    the Romanians who left the country did it because of the lack of prospects and
    the way in which the Social-Democrats ruled the country, and that means the
    Romanians abroad would vote for the opposition. The fact they aren’t allowed to
    cast their vote would affect the outcome of the elections. In another
    development, Calin Popescu Tariceanu, leader of the Alliance of Liberals and
    Democrats in Romania, (ALDE) currently ruling the country together with the
    Social Democrats has said that president Klaus Iohannis is using this referendum for
    a better start in the presidential race. Iohannis has recently announced the issues
    to be voted on during the referendum – a ban on amnesty and pardon for
    corruption offenses as well as a ban on emergency ordinances for crimes,
    penalties and judicial organization, correlated with the right of authorities
    to directly notify the Constitutional Court over these ordinances.


    GROWTH The spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the
    World Bank ended in Washington in an optimistic tone as the United States hinted
    that its trade disputes with China might come to an end, and that could
    translate into a genuine kick-start for the world economy. Trade disputes and
    restrictive financial conditions are among the biggest threats to a world economy
    that is currently slowing down. A strengthened global growth is expected for the
    next year, while according to experts, 2019 has seen the slowest growth in the
    past three years. Central Banks and fiscal authorities have limited options to
    foster recovery next year though, an IMF communiqué also reads. Besides
    expectations for global economic growth next year, the challenges the world
    economy will be facing are: trade tensions, geopolitical risks and political
    instability. Finance officials, including Romanian line minister Eugen
    Teodorovici, have agreed to take action in order to protect economic growth.












    TENNIS A pair made up Romanian tennis players
    Sorana Carstea and Andreea Mitu is today taking on Veronica Kudermetova of
    Russia and Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan in the doubles finals of the WTA
    tournament in Lugano, Switzerland. For the two Romanians this is the first
    finals in 2019. Cirstea has four WTA titles won in doubles matches and five
    finals played, while Mitu has three titles and a finals.









    (translated by bill)

  • 27 May, 2015

    27 May, 2015

    Members of the National Federation of Unions in Administration are protesting today in Bucharest for higher wages for public servants in Romania, as well as regulating as of 2015 the issue of food vouchers, a type of employee benefit widespread in Romania. The federation warned it would call to general strike indefinitely all federations in the sector, gridlocking local public administration, if demands were not met. This is the third protest this year, after a warning strike in February and a general one-day strike in April.




    Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu goes today to Strasbourg for two days for meetings at the Council of Europe. The ministry announced his agenda, which includes meetings with Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland, Nils Muiznieks, Human Rights Commissioner, and Venice Commission Secretary Thomas Markert. The Romanian minister will also attend the world gathering of international law national associations, where he is promoting Romania’s initiative of creating an international terrorism tribunal. The ministry announced that the event allows the dissemination of this initiative among international law experts, encouraging the involvement of international law national associations in the debate on using international law against terrorism.





    Hundreds of homes have been flooded, dozens evacuated, and several schools closed down in three counties in northern Romania, after flash floods came as a result of heavy night rains that poured down as much as 50 to 60 liters per sqm. The floods also damaged cultivated farmland, roadways and bridges. A warning is in effect for the entire country for rains and adverse weather. Temperatures are holding within normal limits, with maximums today between 10 and 28 degrees Celsius. The noon reading in Bucharest was 22 degrees.




    The world’s number three tennis player, Romanian Simona Halep, who is third favorite to winning the ongoing edition of the Grand Slam tournament in Roland Garros, will today be facing Croatia’s Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, in the second round of the tournament. Another Romanian tennis player, Alexandra Dulgheru, in the women’s singles today will be proving her mettle against French player Alize Cornet. Also competing for Romania in the women’s singles are Irina Begu and Andreea Mitu. Irina Begu and two other Romanian tennis players, Monica Niculescu and Horia Tecau, will be playing today their games in the doubles version of the Roland Garros tournament.




    G7 finance ministers and governors of central banks gathered for the rest of this working week in Dresden, Germany, to discuss the global economy and the Greek situation, according to AFP. The meeting will be attended by the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, and the European commissioner for monetary policy Pierre Moscovici. Tomorrow, finance ministers of the G7 will be meeting experts in economy and monetary policy to seek solutions for the present economic problems. The IMF, European Central Bank and the European Commission are attempting to reach an agreement with Athens for releasing a new international loan, but are meeting resistance in the issue of austerity measures they are demanding from Greece.




    Six FIFA officials were placed under arrest today in Zurich for corruption, after the US filed a request with the Swiss federal tribunal, according to Reuters. They represent sports media and sports marketing companies, and are accused of bribing high officials in international football in exchange for media and marketing rights related to competitions in the US and South America. The New York Times writes that the FIFA high officials who were arrested were in Switzerland to attend the congress of the organization meeting to elect its new president. Incumbent Joseph Blatter faces off against Jordanian prince Ali Bin al-Hussein for the position, defending what would be his fifth term. The US authorities allege that the people under arrest have received bribes worth 100 million dollars.


  • Succese sportive româneşti

    Succese sportive româneşti

    După aproape un sfert de secol, echipa feminină a României revine în elita tenisului mondial. Din 1992 n-au mai fost româncele printre primele opt selecţionate ale lumii, iar calificarea în aşa-numita Grupă Mondială a Fed Cup a fost una entuziasmantă pentru suporteri. România a învins Canada, în deplasare, la Montreal, cu scorul general de 3-2, după ce a fost condusă cu 0-1, a răsturnat scorul la 3-1 în meciurile de simplu şi l-a pierdut pe cel de dublu într-un moment în care acesta mai conta doar pentru palmares.



    Sâmbătă, Francoise Abanda adusese primul punct pentru gazde, după 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 cu Irina Begu, care-a jucat accidentată. Alexandra Dulgheru a restabilit egalitatea, trecând cu 6-4, 6-4 de Eugenie Bouchard. O victorie clară, care-a smuls strigăte de satisfacţie nu doar în România, nu doar în tribuna de la Montreal, plină de români cu drapele tricolore, ci şi printre internauţii neutri de pe mapamond, oripilaţi, în ajun, de stupidul refuz al canadiencei de a-i strânge mâna adversarei sale la conferinţa de presă.



    Duminică, Bouchard, numărul şapte mondial, a pierdut, cu 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, şi în faţa Andreei Mitu, care nu figurează nici măcar în primele o sută de jucătoare din lume. Partida a fost tranşată de Alexandra Dulgheru, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 cu Abanda, astfel că înfrângerea perechii Andreea Mitu-Raluca Olaru în faţa cuplului Gabriela Dabrowski-Sharon Fichman n-a mai schimbat deznodământul.



    Presa de specialitate subliniază că echipa condusă de căpitanul nejucător Alina Cercel-Tecşor a obţinut acest succes – pe care-l califică drept senzaţional sau eroic – neputând conta pe cea mai bună jucătoare a sa, Simona Halep, numărul trei mondial, care-a decis să nu participe la meciul selecţionatei, invocând agenda foarte încărcată cu turnee individuale în Europa. Ajunsă în sferturile de finală ale Fed Cup, România e, acum, în acelaşi eşalon valoric cu puteri ale tenisului feminin: Cehia, Franţa, Rusia, Germania, Italia, Olanda şi Elveţia.



    Suporterii români au jubilat, tot duminică, şi la Montpellier, în Franţa, unde Andreea Munteanu, o copilă de 16 ani, a câştigat medalia de aur la bârnă, iar Marius Berbecar argintul la paralele, la Campionatele Europene de gimnastică artistică. Subfinanţată, aşa cum subliniază comentatorii, lipsită şi de aportul celebrului antrenor Octavian Bellu, care s-a retras de la lotul feminin, gimnastica românească încă produce campioni, pe măsura istoriei jalonate cu zeci de medalii olimpice, mondiale şi europene. Iar specialiştii pronostichează rezultate şi mai bune la următoarea ediţie a întrecerilor continentale, din 2017, care va fi organizată la Bucureşti.