October 2, 2018
Romania wants its citizens residing in the UK continue to work and study as before after the Brexit; The EU is worried about recent changes in the judiciary in Romania
Ştefan Stoica, 02.10.2018, 13:41
BUCHAREST – Romanian PM Viorica Dancila said that Romania is interested in having all Romanian citizens residing in Great Britain continue to be able to live, work, and study as usual, in addition to Romania maintaining close relations with the EU and the UK after the Brexit. She spoke at a meeting in Bucharest with head Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier. Discussions came as Romania is preparing to take over the rotating presidency of the EU in the first half of 2019. At the same time, the Romanian PM reaffirmed the importance of maintaining unity between the 27 member states in negotiating the Brexit. Michel Barnier also met Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, and has scheduled meetings with the speakers of the two chambers of Parliament, Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu and Liviu Dragnea.
BREXIT – British PM Theresa May announced today new regulations for migration in the UK, to come into effect after the Brexit, favoring qualified workers. Details will be provided in a speech to be held on Wednesday at the Conservative Party congress in Birmingham. According to the new regulations, people who want to settle in Great Britain will have to have a minimum level of income in order to guarantee they would not take jobs away from British citizens. Student visas are not subject to those regulations. EU citizens are right now free to move to the UK, which will no longer be the case after the Brexit, coming into effect in 2020.
JUDICIAL – Romanian PM Viorica Dancila and Justice Minister Tudorel Toader attend on Wednesday in Strasbourg the debates in the European Parliament regarding the rule of law in Romania. Yesterday, the Civil Liberties Committee in the European Parliament was the venue for debates between Euro MPs of various political parties and EC vice-president Frans Timmermans. The latter said that the changes made by the authorities in Bucharest in terms of the judiciary worried not only Romanians, many of whom who took to the streets, but the entire EU. Frans Timmermans said that if the EC concludes that European common rules were violated, it would prosecute Romania accordingly.
NOBEL – US scientist Arthur Ashkin and won the Nobel Prize for physics, alongside Gerard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland of Canada, for research into laser physics, which the Swedish Royal Academy of Science deemed revolutionary. This year’s Nobel Prize season opened on Monday with the announcement for the Nobel Prize in medicine. US researcher James P. Allison and Japanese researcher Tasuku Honjo were granted the prize for new cancer therapies. On Wednesday, the prize for chemistry will be announced, while on Friday the Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded. The prize for literature will not be awarded in 2018, for the first time after almost 70 years.
BUCHAREST – The current parliamentary session begins today in the Senate with a vote on the simple motion by the opposition against Transportation Minister Lucian Sova. The signatories accuse him of mismanagement of roads and railroads. A similar vote will occur on Wednesday in the lower chamber with a motion against Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici, on the claim of failing in the fiscal and taxation strategy.
HEALTHCARE – The month of October is dedicated to the fight against breast cancer. Organizations all across the world are encouraging education and research regarding this danger. Romanian minister in charge of healthcare Sorin Pintea said that almost 9,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed annually in the country, with 3,000 fatalities, which he said were preventable by regular check-ups.
WASHINGTON – Trade and tariff wars have a potential to upset the world economy, according to IMF head Christinen Lagarde. She made an appeal to countries across the world to settle amicably their differences, and to reform trade regulations. The pace of economic growth this year is the highest since 2011, but has flattened, she said in a speech ahead of the annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank to be held in Indonesia between October 8 and 14. In the last few weeks, the US and China, the top economies of the world, have threatened each other with tariffs worth tens of billions of dollars, which is feared would amount to a trade war between the two economic giants, with severe consequences on the entire world economy.
