December 22, 2021

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Newsroom, 22.12.2021, 14:16

COMMEMORATION Events related to the commemoration of the
heroes of the 1989 anti-communist revolution in Romania are continuing in
Bucharest today. 32 years ago Bucharest became the center of the national
uprising, which ended up with the ousting of the country’s dictator Nicolae
Ceausescu and the demise of his communist regime. Romanian president Klaus
Iohannis has conveyed a message on the day marking the Victory of the Romanian
Revolution and Freedom. ‘December 1989 paved the way of our country towards democracy,
allowed its NATO and EU accession, the conclusion of the Strategic Partnership
with the United States and Romania’s becoming a regional security provider.
None of these would have been possible without the anti-communist revolution,’ says
Klaus Iohannis the president of Romania who described as shameful the fact that
in 32 years no one paid for the terrible massacre that preceded the collapse of
the communist regime. According to him, the country’s legal system must not
take a break until the guilty ones are brought to justice.

LAWS Parliament’s specialised committees are today
expected to give the greenlight for the drafts of the state budget and the
national insurance. The PSD-PNL-UDMR majority wants to submit the two drafts to
Parliament tomorrow so that they may get the final voting by Christmas. The
budget of the ministries and central institutions have so far passed the
specialised committees without amendments and all those proposed by the
opposition have been rejected. The budget is based on an estimated growth rate
of 4.6%, a GDP of 260 billion euros and an annual inflation rate of 6.5%.

FORM Over 160
thousand people have filled in passenger locator forms since the application
was launched, most of them on Bucharest’s International Airport Henry Coanda.
Starting December 20th all travellers arriving in Romania must fill in the
digital locator form, also known as plf, a document adopted by 18 other EU countries.
In another development the latest data released by authorities in Romania,
shows another 851 Covid infections and 62 related fatalities. 7.7 million
Romanians have been fully vaccinated in Romania so far.

PROTEST Romanian police have detained two people and fined
another 200, organisers and participants in the Wednesday’s protest staged by
supporters of AUR, an ultranationalist political party with seats in
Parliament, which has an anti-vaccine agenda. Protesters on Wednesday forced
their way into the Parliament’s building courtyard in an attempt to prevent the
authorities from introducing the green certificate in workplaces. Investigation
is under way in an attempt to find the other violent protesters and a parallel
line of investigation is trying to find out why the riot police were unable to
contain the protesters.

(bill)