Organized crime prosecutor appointed as UK’s 1st liaison magistrate to Romania
Britain has appointed its first ever liaison magistrate to Romania, a prosecutor who has decades of international experience of investigating organized crime.
John Williams was a specialist prosecutor with the International Justice and Organized Crime Division of the Crown Prosecution Service where he dealt with a wide range of offenses for 30 years.
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg tells Romanians: “See you on the streets” and slams illegal logging
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has called on Romanians to “stand together against illegal logging and the destruction of our common planet” in a video message recorded in Brussels.
“Hi! My
name is Greta Thunberg and I am a climate activist from Sweden, and I want to
urge you to join the Fridays for Future movement...
Romanian foreign minister: EU can’t allow Belarus abuses. Pledges aid to civil society, independent media
Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu says the European Union should react to abuses committed in Belarus against protesters who say presidential elections were rigged.
Aurescu said Wednesday evening on Twitter that the EU “mustn’t tolerate abuses such as (the) recent detainment of representatives of the Coordination Council of opposition,” he wrote.
Reading the Riot Act. Romanian publishers sue ‘corporate library,’ culture ministry for unfair competition
Reading books
is a somewhat of a rarity in Romania according to studies, so it stands to reason
that publishers have to push to sell books.
Add a
middleman to the mix, and the situation becomes even more difficult for them.
But Romanian publishers are hitting back and together with the country’s main...
Coronavirus cases pass 7,000 in Romania, 362 deaths reported since outbreak began
More than 300 confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported in the last day, bringing the total to 7,216, authorities said Wednesday.
The Strategic Communication Group said 362 people had died in Romania since the outbreak begin.
There are currently 245 patients in intensive care receiving treatment after contracting the virus.
Domestic abuse, alcohol consumption, panic attacks: the effects of the coronavirus pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic
wrought massive disruption on people’s lives around the world.
Besides the spread of an unknown and unpredictable virus that sickened thousands
in Romania and caused more than 1,600 deaths, the lockdown shut public spaces,
separated families, battered the economy and saw quarantines and wartime hospital
triage.
It is little surprise that the...
Romania reports third highest daily Covid-19 infections this month as total cases near 27,000
Romania has reported 388 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the third highest daily figure this month.
The Strategic Communication Group said Tuesday that the cumulative number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Romania had climbed to 26,970.
Seventeen patients died in the past 24 hours, 12...
Romanians bought 1,500 electric cars in 2019, as electric car sales double in Europe (but petrol is still king)
Romanians bought 1,500 new electric cars last year, more than double the previous year, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association says.
Last year,
291,000 electric cars were registered in Europe, ACEA said, compared to 150,000
in 2018.
The surge comes as petrol prices increased by 5% while diesel dropped by 14% across Europe.
Pro-Orban media moguls who destroyed Hungary’s media now targeting European outlets
by Alison Mutler
Early one Saturday in October 2016, the staff at one of Hungary’s oldest newspapers started their day off trying to relax. Anxiety had been high for months amid rumors that the nation’s most popular broadsheet publishing since the anti-Soviet uprising in 1956 would be the...
Romania’s ruling Liberals take 11 point lead over Social Democrats, poll shows
Romania’s ruling Liberal Party have opened up a 11.1%
lead over the opposition Social Democrats, a poll released Tuesday shows.
The center-right Liberals, who have a minority government, scored 33% in a June poll, a slight increase from the previous month, and the first time since the coronavirus pandemic that month-on-month support for them has...
