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Gov't approved extention to the state of alert by 30 days from April 13
Friday, April 9, 2021
The Government approved a 30-day extension to the state of alert in Romania from April 13 and measures that will be applied during it to prevent and combat the effects the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including the one according to which where the 14-day cumulative COVID-19 rate is greater than 4 and less than or equal to 7.5 per 1,000 population a curfew will be instituted on Friday, Saturday and Sunday between 20:00hrs and 05.00hrs, except for travel for business ...
Chief COVID-19 vaccination coordinator Gheorghita: In Romania, vaccination is free and voluntary
Friday, April 9, 2021
Vaccination in Romania is free, voluntary and is performed using vaccines authorised by the European Medicines Agency, said on Thursday Chairman of Romania's National COVID-19 Vaccination Coordination Committee (CNCAV) Valeriu Gheorghita asked to react to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recently announcing that compulsory childhood vaccination might be necessary in a democratic society.He denied that such a thing had been taken into account ...
Start date of EPPO operations: European Chief Prosecutor proposes 1 June 2021 to the European Commission
Friday, April 9, 2021
European Chief Prosecutor Laura K?vesi has Wednesday sent a letter to European Commissioners for Justice, Didier Reynders, and for Budget and Administration, Johannes Hahn, proposing 1 June 2021 as the date when the EPPO will start its investigative and prosecutorial tasks. Since the appointment of the College of the EPPO, key decisions for the establishment of the EPPO have been adopted, staff for the ...
Barometer of minister visibility: Citu, Voiculescu, Campeanu, Turcan in visibility top in March
Friday, April 9, 2021
Premier Florin Citu and ministers Vlad Voiculescu, Sorin Cimpeanu and Raluca Turcan occupied the first four places in the visibility top in March, as they did in the first two months of the year. Interior minister Lucian Bode replaced Dan Barna on fifth position. These data result from the ministers' Visibility Barometer, an analysis made by News.ro and Klarmedia, a monitoring agency, based on monitoring the written and online ...
IN THE YEAR 2020, AS AGAINST THE PREVIOUS YEAR, THE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT DECREASED BY 3.9%
Friday, April 9, 2021
• Gross domestic product in Q4 2020 was, in real terms, by 4.8%1 higher, as compared to Q3 2020; • As against the same quarter of 2019, the Gross Domestic Product recorded a decrease by 1.4% for unadjusted series and by 1.8% for seasonally adjusted series; • The seasonally adjusted series of quarterly Gross Domestic Product were readjusted as a result of the ...
BNR: financial assets of the public administration sector, up 3.6 percentage points in Q4 2020
Friday, April 9, 2021
The financial assets of the public administration sector, expressed as a share in the Gross Domestic Product, increased by 3.6 percentage points, reaching 26%, according to the data of the National Bank of Romania (BNR).Financial assets of the public administration sector, expressed as a share of Gross Domestic Product, increased by 3.6 percentage points to 26%. The public administration's deposits and cash increased by 2.1 percentage points ...
Topoloveni plum jam sells in 20 states, 10 years after obtaining Protected Geographic Indication European certification
Friday, April 9, 2021
The plum jam of Topoloveni has managed to reach 20 states, after obtaining the certification from the European Commission with the Protected Geographic Indication (PGI), thus placing Romania among the countries with an important voice in the matter of quality food, according to a press release sent by the company."The first Romanian product with PGI and, for 6 years, the only one, the Topoloveni plum jam managed to place Romania among the countries with an ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT 2020/21: Measures taken by the Romanian government in the face of the pandemic have raised human rights concerns
Thursday, April 8, 2021
The Amnesty International Report 2020/21 documents the human rights situation in 149 countries in 2020, as well as providing global and regional analysis. It presents Amnesty lnternational's concerns and calls for action to governments and others. During 2020, the world was rocked by COVID-19. The pandemic and measures taken to tackle it impacted everyone, but also threw into stark relief, and sometimes aggravated, existing inequalities and patterns of ...
ForMin Aurescu met Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio în Rome
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Romania and Italy have consistently supported the importance of a strong, inclusive European Union that is closer to its citizens, Romania's Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu said on Wednesday.The statement was made at a joint news conference with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio during Aurescu's official visit to Rome."Romania and Italy have consistently supported the importance of a strong, inclusive union that is closer to its citizens, ...
Isarescu: In Romania, the initial economic impact of the pandemics was a very strong one
Thursday, April 8, 2021
‘The initial economic impact of the pandemics was a very strong one in Romania, emphasising the existing imbalances, the pressures regarding the depreciation of the national currency and the growth of the necessary of liquidity, states Mugur Isarescu, the governor of the National Bank of Romania (BNR) in the opening of the conference organised by the National Bank of the Republic of Moldova with the theme ‘ The role of a central bank in the modernisation of ...
