June 17, 2023
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Newsroom, 17.06.2023, 13:50
TALKS The government in Bucharest and trade unions in the
country’s education system have set up a schedule for the implementation of the
amendments in the Salary Law as pledged by the Executive with a view to putting
an end to the teachers’ all-out strike, which lasted for three weeks. According
to the new Prime Minister, Marcel Ciolacu, Education Minister Ligia Deca and
trade union representatives, the salary of a beginner teacher would be based on
the average salary in Romania. Trade union leaders will be having a new round
of talks with the Ministers of Education, Labour and Finances in an attempt to
draw up the new salary scale. After an agreement has been reached, it will be
presented to the ruling coalition and the first shape of the future salary law
is to be announced by the Labour Minister until July 15. After the government
endorsement, the project will be forwarded to Parliament in its autumn session.
RAIN Torrential rains have in the past days affected
several towns and villages in the country’s southwest, where numerous households
and scores of hectares of farmland have been flooded. Teams of firefighters and
gendarmes have intervened to pump the water out of the affected households.
Road and rail traffic has been temporarily disrupted while the National
Committee for Emergency Situations summoned by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu on
Friday night, has approved food and water supplies to the families affected by
the latest floods.
FOOTBALL Romania’s national football side ended in a goalless draw their
game against the selection of Kosovo in Pristina on Friday night. The match was
counting towards the Group 1 of the EURO 2024 qualifiers, with Romania still
unbeaten after three games: two wins and a draw. Kosovo has three points and
the Romanian football team coached by Edward Iordanescu will play their next
game against Switzerland in Lucerne on Monday. The first two sides in the group
will qualify for the final tournament.
OPERA The second edition of Bucharest Opera Festival kicked off at the
National Opera in Bucharest (ONB) on Friday night. The event brings together
for nine days 15 hundred artists, nine different productions, which aren’t
normally performed on the ONB stage, and a programme, which covers nearly 300
years of music history. I am convinced this festival remains an example about
the fact that art has to unite people, that artists are free spirits practicing
cultural diplomacy, and setting up bridges of communication between peoples,
countries, between various teams of artists and managers in Romania and
abroad, says Daniel Jinga, director general with the National Opera in
Bucharest. The present edition has kicked off with a premiere of The Marriage
of Figaro by Mozart, directed by maestro Sir David Pountney, a coproduction
with the Tel Aviv Opera. According to Director Pountney, the show has been
built on a world of contrasts.
RELATIONS Between June 14-16, the Romanian city of Timisoara, which is also
European capital of culture this year, played venue for the 26th
session of the Romanian-German government commission for the problematic of the
ethnic Germans in Romania. State Secretary Daniela Gitman has emphasized the
excellent level of the Romanian-German relations based on mutual trust,
stepped-up political dialogue, growing economic dynamics, and very tight
inter-human relations. The Romanian official has mentioned the significant
contribution of the German minority in Romania and the Romanian community in
Germany to the consolidation of the bilateral dialogue and their role as a
catalyst in the cooperation between the two countries. Gitman has also voiced
appreciation for the decision of the German government to carry on its 5.4
million Euro support for the ethnic Germans in Romania.
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