July 14, 2021

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Newsroom, 14.07.2021, 13:55

PROJECT Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis is today attending
a government session during which the Executive is to assume a presidential
project entitled Educated Romania. Political debates over this project came to
an end last week when the head of state announced the document enjoys the
support of the government coalition and the acceptance of the opposition for
turning it into law. Part of the priorities and reforms comprised by the
project are to be funded through the National Plan of Recovery and Resilience.
Among other things, the plan includes measures to curb school dropouts and
provide support to 25 hundred pre-university education facilities, to fit 10
thousand school labs and 75 thousand classrooms with the proper equipment and
build a network of green schools. The plan also provides for training 100
thousand teachers for online education, though the structure of the country’s
education system is to remain preponderantly the same.

DAY France today resumes its traditional military parade
on Champs Elysees, to celebrate the country’s national day, a tradition which
was interrupted last year by the pandemic. Authorities have warned the
participants in the aforementioned event, expected to be attended by thousands
people, that they must have vaccination permits on them or the proof of a
negative test and they have to wear masks. A total of 5,000 servicemen, out of
whom 4,300 infantrymen are to march in the parade, which also involves the participation
of 73 aircraft, 24 helicopters, 221 military vehicles, 200 horses of the
Republican Guard as well as elite units from France and 7 other countries in
Europe. The day will end with fireworks over the Eiffel tower in Paris. The
National Day of France is also marked at the French embassy in Bucharest, an
event expected to be attended by high officials from Romania like president
Klaus Iohannis and Prime Minister Florin Citu.

EU Post-pandemic recovery plans drawn up in 12 EU
countries have been greenlighted by the EU Ministers of Economy and Finances.
This is the final stage, which allows these countries to conclude advantageous
loan agreements with EU institutions in order to implement the aforementioned
recovery plans. These countries are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany,
Greece, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain. According to
Romanian MEP Dragos Paslaru with the ruling USR/PLUS Alliance, the EU Executive
is in direct dialogue with Bucharest for the last details in the country’s
recovery and resilience plan, also known as PNRR. The Romanian official says
that PNRR could be approved in September. From opposition the Social-Democratic
MEP Victor Negrescu says the government should explain Romania’s request for
having the assessment period for PNRR extended.

FOOTBALL Romania’s
football champions CFR have qualified for the Champions League’s second
preliminary leg although they lost 2-1 to Bosnian side Borac Banja Luka. CFR
had won the first match 3-1. The Romanians will be up against Lincoln Red Imps,
the champions of Gibraltar who have defeated Fola Esch of Luxembourg.

COVID-19 Romania has reported 87 infections with the Delta variant of
coronavirus since the first case was discovered on its territory. According to
the National Institute of Public Health, three people have so far lost their
lives to the new variant. Most of the infections have been reported in
Bucharest and in three other counties in the country’s south. On Tuesday 51 new
cases were reported out of 27 thousand tests conducted. 52 patients are being
treated in ICUs, whereas a quarter of the country’s total population has been
vaccinated against the novel coronavirus.

(bill)