Reuters: Romania’s gov’t will propose EU lawmaker as commissioner
Romania’s
new centrist government will propose European lawmaker Siegfried Muresan as its
Commissioner in the EU’s new executive, Reuters reported citing officials from the
ruling Liberal Party.
Two
officials told reporters that the party had agreed Muresan would be the pick
and a letter would be sent later Tuesday or early Wednesday.
Hotnews reported
that Romania...
‘Cheers!’ Man with a stammer wins case against police who fined him for being ‘drunk’ when he called the emergency services
A man from the northeast county of Vasului has won a court case against police who fined him for making an unwarranted call to the emergency services while he was inebriated.
The unnamed man managed to demonstrate that he wasn't drunk, but has a stutter and was justified in making the call...
Concerns in Romania after hundreds of Covid-19 patients voluntarily discharge from hospitals, thousands give up quarantine after court ruling
Concerns have risen in Romania after hundreds of Covid-19 patients left their hospital beds and thousands are no longer quarantining following a court ruling that stripped the government of the authority to impose quarantine.
Health Minister Nelu Tataru said that 550 patients with coronavirus had discharged themselves from hospital in the first three...
Romania reports 31 coronavirus fatalities in one day, highest death toll since April 26
Romanian authorities say 31 patients have died after catching the coronavirus in the last day, the highest number of deaths in a single day in more than ten weeks.
The Strategic Communication Group said that there was a total of 397 new cases reported in the last day, taking the total number of...
Romania gov’t scrambles to pass quarantine law after 100s of Covid-19 patients discharge themselves from hospital following top court ruling
Romania’s minority government is scrambling to get a law passed in Parliament that would give it legal grounds to enforce quarantine for Covid-19 patients and people at risk of spreading the virus.
Health Minister Nelu Tataru said Monday that the legislation, which will be debated in an emergency session, was “in the national...
Made Where? Without mentioning it by name, Romania’s president says Europe should rely less on China
Klaus Iohannis didn’t even mention it by name, but in his first press conference since the coronavirus outbreak, the Romanian president said his country and Europe as a whole should become less reliant on China.
Iohannis addressed two China-related issues during the 96 minute-event at the Cotroceni presidential palace on Tuesday evening: medical supplies...
U.S. officials confirm Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc in the States despite visa ban, will seek his deportation-Radio Free Europe
U.S. officials say that notorious Moldovan oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc, a behind-the-scenes political operator linked to a massive bank theft, is in the United States despite being subject to a visa ban earlier this year.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported that Plahotniuc was in the country, despite being subject to a...
Klaus Iohannis tears into draft law proposing autonomy for Romania’s ethnic Hungarians. ‘What did Viktor Orban promise you?’
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has accused the Social Democrats of striking a secret deal with Hungary’s Viktor Orban to give the Hungarian ethnic minorities more rights in the Transylvania region.
Iohannis claimed the Social Democrats the country’s largest party, were plotting to give “Transylvania to the Hungarians," but the party moved to distance itself...
Four bidders compete for 273 million-euro helicopter contract in Romania
Four bidders have submitted offers in a 272-million euro tender organized by the Romanian government for purchasing a dozen helicopters for the country’s emergency service, Economica.net. reported.
Airbus Helicopters, owned by EADS, a European aerospace company, has a production facility near the central city of Brasov, is one of the bidders for the four-year...
Hungary to close its borders to non-residents as Europe tightens Covid-19 rules
Hungary
will close its borders to non-residents from Sept. 1 to try and stem an increasing
number of coronavirus cases, the government said Friday.
The move comes as several European countries implement stricter Covid-19 measures.
"From
September 1, foreign citizens will no longer be allowed to enter the territory
of...
