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  • February 9, 2024

    February 9, 2024

    Farmers. The Bucharest
    government has approved a support package for farmers, including loans with
    lower interest rates and electricity subsidies. On the other hand, Romania will
    benefit from 34 million Euros from the Solidarity Fund of the European Union, in
    support for the damages suffered as a result of the drought of 2022. The money
    was already transferred in December of last year, and Romania has one and a
    half years to implement the provision of
    this aid.




    Elections. Merging European
    Parliament elections and local elections on June 9 is on the agenda of the PSD-PNL
    governing coalition in Bucharest. According to some political sources, the Social
    Democrats also proposed combining the elections for the national Parliament
    with the first or second round of the presidential elections, which would
    complement the first scenario. The opposition is vehemently against these
    initiatives. The Save Romania Union has announced that it has started the
    proceedings regarding the notification of the Venice Commission for a point of
    view on mergin European Parliament and local elections less than six months
    before the election date. We recall that, this year, all four types of
    elections are taking place in Romania – parliamentary, European, local and
    presidential.




    Borders. The first two
    scanners out of the 26 that Romania is buying with European money have already
    arrived in the country and will be functional at the end of this month, Finance
    Minister Marcel Boloş announced on social media. They will be located at the
    border points with the Republic of Moldova Giurgiulesti and Albița (east) and
    will scan the goods entering the country. The minister added that, by the end
    of the year, eight scanning systems will be available in Romanian customs.











    Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has appointed General Oleksandr Syrskyi as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, replacing General Valery Zaluzhny. The head of state said it was time for changes and that the dismissed general should remain in his team. After the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the summer, Zaluzhny warned that the war had reached a stalemate, in the stage of a conflict of attrition and that, in order to achieve victories, his country needed weapons technologically superior to the Russian ones and new troops. International media note that Valery Zaluzhny is more popular among Ukrainians than Zelensky. In another move, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has threatened the United States with a global war, which would bring the whole of humanity to the brink of extinction, if Washington sends troops to Ukraine. In an interview to the controversial American journalist Tucker Carlson, Putin claims that Russia will fight to the end to defend its interests.


    BRD. BRD CEO Maria
    Ruseva, did not want to comment on the recent information covered by the media regarding
    the possible intention of Groupe Société Générale to sell the bank owned by
    Romania. She specified, instead, that BRD – Groupe Société Générale continues
    to aim for third place on the Romanian banking market, where, last year, it
    obtained a net profit of 1.66 billion lei (the equivalent of over 33 million of
    euros), up by 24%. The bank estimates that this year it will pay between 100
    and 120 million lei for the new tax applied to banks. In Romania, BRD – Groupe
    Société Générale operates a network of 451 units, and the total assets of the
    bank amounted, at the end of March 2023, to 70 billion lei.






    Polo. Romania’s
    national water polo team was defeated by the Italian team 16-10 in its last
    match in Group D of the World Championship in Doha, Qatar. In the first two matches,
    the Romanians lost to Hungary and outclassed Kazakhstan 25-3. Romania ranks
    third in the group, after Hungary and Italy. The winners of the groups qualify
    directly for the quarter-finals, and the teams in the second and third
    positions are in for a play-off for the quarters. Last month, Romania finished
    in 8th place at the European Championship in Croatia.




    Football. Romania’s
    national football team will play in Group C2 of the 2024-2025 edition of the
    Nations League, alongside Kosovo, Cyprus and Lithuania or Gibraltar,
    according to the draw made on Thursday evening in Paris. The group matches are
    scheduled in the fall of this year. Until then, Romania will participate, in
    June, in the final tournament of the European Championship, organized in
    Germany. The Romanians are part of Group E, where they will take on Belgium,
    Slovakia and the winner of the playoffs, in which Ukraine, Israel, Bosnia and
    Iceland will participate. (MI)











  • June 19, 2022

    June 19, 2022









    Three Seas Initiative. The President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, will participate, on Monday, in the 7th Three Seas Initiative Summit, and in the 4th edition of the Business Forum of the Initiative, both organized in Riga, Latvia. The leaders of the participating states will analyze how they should position themselves in the current situation of European security generated by the war in Ukraine. They will also discuss the contribution that the Three Seas Initiative can bring, through the implementation of strategic interconnection projects, in the three core areas of the Initiative: transport, energy and digital. According to the Romanian Presidential Administration, President Klaus Iohannis will reiterate Romania’s support for Ukraine both bilaterally and multilaterally. At the same time, Klaus Iohannis will highlight the importance of the Initiative providing similar support to the Republic of Moldova and Georgia, as states that, like Ukraine, have a vocation to become members of the European Union. The Three Seas Initiative is a presidential political platform that brings together the 12 member states of the European Union between the Adriatic Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea.








    Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr
    Zelensky has visited the troops fighting the invading Russian army in the
    south. He’s met with military personnel defending the Black Sea region of Mykolaiv
    and Odessa near the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. The president
    also went to the former Mykolaiv regional administration headquarters, which
    was destroyed by Russian bombing, which also killed 37 people there. A port and
    industrial city with almost half a million inhabitants before the war, Mykolaiv
    remained under Ukrainian control, but is close to the Kherson region, which is
    almost entirely occupied by the Russians. The city is an important target for
    Moscow, because it is on the way to Odessa, the largest port in Ukraine,
    located only 130 kilometers south of the Republic of Moldova (ex-Soviet, mostly
    Romanian-speaking) and before the blockade imposed by the Russian military
    fleet , the main outlet for Ukrainian grain exports. Russia has turned
    the Black Sea into a war zone by blocking shipments of grain and fertilizers
    from Ukraine, and has limited its own exports, said European Foreign
    Minister Josep Borrell, who accused Moscow of blackmail. In eastern
    Ukraine, in the Donbas coal basin, heavy fighting continues for the towns of
    Severodonetsk and Lysiciansk. Kyiv officials say they fear that their country
    could be attacked again and again from the north, on the territory of Belarus, one
    of Russia’s most docile allies.






    Refugees. Nearly 11,000 Ukrainian citizens have entered neighboring
    Romania in the past 24 hours, up 19% from the previous day. According to the
    Border Police, almost 6,700 refugees crossed the border with Ukraine, and about
    1,100 Ukrainian citizens the border with the Republic of Moldova. In both cases
    figures are on the rise. Since the invasion of their country by the Russian
    army on February 24, more than 1,200,000 Ukrainians have entered Romania.







    ANAF. The National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) has
    announced that checks on individuals who cannot justify their assets will start
    on July 1st. Those taxpayers
    are targeted, for whom there are very big differences, of at least 50 thousand
    lei (the equivalent of 10 thousand euros) between the revenues estimated by the
    controllers of the National Agency for Fiscal Administration and those declared
    by the respective persons – said ANAF President Lucian Hey. He stated that the
    institution he runs has found such differences between the estimated revenues
    and those declared in the case of over 560 thousand people and stressed that
    the number of control teams in this field will increase from 22, as they are
    today, to almost 100.




    Election. The French are called to the polls on Sunday for the
    second round of legislative elections, the outcome of which depends on the
    reforms promised by centrist President Emmanuel Macron, re-elected in April for
    a new five-year term. In the first round, on June 12, the Coalition Together !,
    dominated by the presidential party, and the cartel of the radical left, Nupes,
    obtained almost identical scores, 25.75% and 25.66% of the vote, respectively.
    Nothing indicates, analysts note, that after the decisive ballot, the centrists
    could obtain an absolute majority, i.e. 289 of the 577 seats in the National
    Assembly, the lower house of Parliament. The alliance of the left, led by the
    septuagenarian Marxist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, third in the first round of the
    presidential election, hopes, in turn, to win the majority and impose on Macron
    a so-called cohabitation with a government that would be rather hostile. The
    far right, led by Marine Le Pen, defeated by Macron in the decisive round of
    the presidential election, could win at least 15 seats and thus reach the
    threshold set to form a parliamentary group, for the first time in more than
    three decades. Polling institutes predict that last Sunday’s record absenteeism
    rate of 52.49% could be surpassed in the second round. Especially young people,
    potential left-wing voters, seem disinterested in the political game: 75% of
    those aged 18 to 24 and 65% of those aged 25-34 did not come to the polls last
    Sunday.






    Swimming. Romanian swimmers Robert Glinţ and David Popovici have qualified
    for the semifinals of the 100 m backstroke and 200 m freestyle events,
    respectively, at the World Aquatics Championship in Budapest, in neighboring
    Hungary. Robert Glinţ competed in the sixth series in the 100 m backstroke and
    was timed with 53 sec 86/100, the 13th
    in the series. In his first participation in a World Championship for seniors
    in the Olympic pool, David Popovici managed the best time in the series in the
    200 m freestyle, 1 min 45 sec 18/100. The semifinals are due today. (MI)