November 10, 2022

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Newsroom, 10.11.2022, 14:10

PROTESTS The latest price hikes have triggered a wave of protests around Europe.
Traffic has been hindered in the French capital and its surroundings as workers
in the local railway and underground infrastructures have gone on strike.
Belgium on Wednesday was affected by a national strike while in Britain
thousands of nurses have decided to cease work asking for pay rises. In Greece,
thousands have gathered in front of the Parliament building where protesters
have clashed with riot police. In most of the fields activity has been
interrupted while the road and maritime transport has ceased. TV and radio broadcasts
have also been interrupted.

LAW The ruling coalition in Bucharest has reached an
agreement on capping and subsidizing energy prices the next year. A solution to
this issue has been delayed for a couple of months now. Under the new
legislation, household consumers with consumption below 100 kW/h will pay 0.68
RON per kW and those below 255 kW 0.80 RON. Households with consumption higher
than 255 kW will be paying 1.3 RON per kW. Major economic consumers will pay
the same price while small and medium-sized businesses in the food pharmaceutical
industry, community services and churches will pay one RON per kilowatt/hour.
The Executive is expected to issue a new ordinance on the issue to be applied
next year.

HANDBALL Romania’s national handball side on Wednesday qualified for the main
groups of the European Championship – EHF EURO 2022 after a 31-23 win against
North Macedonia in Group C. Our handballers, who lost their first two matches
against France and the Netherlands, have managed to qualify for the
competition’s next stage after securing a win in the second half of the game. The
European Championship – EHF EURO 2022 is underway in Slovenia, North Macedonia
and Montenegro over November 4-20. Romania has participated in all these
editions with the exception of 2006, the best result being the bronze medal
they got in 2010. In the previous edition in 2010, Romania ranked 12th.

BORDER Romania has been actively supporting us in the fight
against the aggressor, Romania supports the idea of setting up an international
tribunal and is supporting our future – Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal
said in the opening of the border checkpoint in Vicovul de Sus, Romania and
Krasnoilsk, Ukraine. Our citizens will come back through these border
checkpoints and the consistent humanitarian aids from the EU countries are coming
to our people also through these border checkpoints. According to him another
seven checkpoints are planned to open at the common border. In these special
moments Ukraine is going through, tragic moments after the Russian aggression,
we need to show solidarity and unity – Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca
has said. According to him the mobility of people and goods has become of vital
relevance as the illegal, planned and unprovoked aggression of the Russian
Federation is having disastrous effects upon the Ukrainian citizens and the
government in Kyiv. The aforementioned border checkpoint is the first between
Ukraine and an EU member after the beginning of the Russian invasion.

TALKS Romanian president Klaus Iohannis will be
attending the fifth edition of the Peace Forum in Paris due on Friday and
Saturday at the Brongniart palace. According to the presidential
administration, the debates during the forum will be focusing on major topics
on the international agenda such as geo-political conflicts with global
consequences, the aggravation of the climate change, the succession of the
Covid-19 pandemic waves and increasing social gaps. On Friday Iohannis is to
participate in a panel entitled Present and future – how to manage the effects
of the multiple crisis over the population. On this occasion, Iohannis will be
referring to the effects of the aggression war the Russian Federation is waging
on Ukraine.

(bill)