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RULING Romania's Constitutional Court has today ruled over a draft on reviewing the country's Constitution, which stipulates the family is based on the freely consented marriage between a man and a woman, not between spouses as it is at present. The draft, endorsed by the Senate last week, must be validated through a referendum, which is due on October 7th. With the exception of the opposing USR (Save Romania Union) all Parliamentarian parties have endorsed the draft, which is based on a citizens' initiative, which gathered over 3 million signatures from all over the country. According to ACCEPT, an organization that campaigns for sexual minority rights, the vote in the Senate infringes upon the right to private and family life, which belongs to all people irrespective of gender and sexual orientation.
RABLA A programme aimed at renewing Romania's car fleet called RABLA has resumed in Romania today. According to environment Minister Gratiela Gavrilescu 30 thousand scrapping incentives have been made available after the government has approved another 43 million Euros for environmental preservation. So, any Romanian who may want to buy a car can benefit from a bonus of 14 hundred Euros and another 366 Euros for the purchase of a hybrid car. Legal persons can also benefit the Rabla programme.
CLEANUP Roughly 340 thousand volunteers have participated in the 6th edition of the National Cleanup Day staged by 'Let's Do It, Romania!' foundation on September 15th. Let's Do It, Romania! is the largest social movement in Romania and the event on Saturday was part of the World Cleanup Day, carried under the aegis of Let's Do it, World and the United Nations Environment Programme. 13 million volunteers from 155 countries have joined the international cleanup action. The objective of the World Cleanup Day is to mobilize 5% of the world population in order to change people's attitude towards the proper waste management and disposal and could be considered the most ambitious civic initiative at world level ever.
SUMMIT Today and tomorrow, Bucharest is seeing the third Summit of the Three Seas Initiative, an informal political platform at presidential level, which brings togehter the 12 EU members between the Baltic Sea, the Adriatic and the Black Sea - Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The initiative's main objective is development on three main directions: transportation, energy and digital. The first edition of the Initiative's Business Forum is to take place on the sidelines of the event, which is attended for the first time by the European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker. The initiative's first two editions took place in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2016 and Warsaw, Poland in 2017.
TENNIS The Romanian Simona Halep continues to have a laid-back lead in the WTA professional tennis rankings made public on Monday. Now in her 46th week as a world standings leader and 11th-placed according to an all-time a classification, Halep is more than 2,000 points clear of runner-up Danish Caroline Wozniacki, and more than 2,500 points clear of third-placed tennis player, German Angelique Kerber. Of the Top 100 WTA Romanian tennis players, only Irina Begu went two notches down, from the 53rd to the 55th position, while the other Romanian tennis players have retained their WTA places; Mihaela Buzarnescu is still 23rd-placed and Sorana Carstea is 50th-ranked, while Ana Bogdan is ranked the 80th and Monica Niculescu is on the 81st position. The rankings remain unchanged for the 2018 WTA Finals as well, with Simona Halep at the top of the table, followed in descending order by Angelique Kerber, who is almost 1,800 points down from Halep. Both tennis players have qualified for the Singapore competition while third-placed is the Czech Petra Kvitova.
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