June 11, 2021 UPDATE
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Newsroom, 11.06.2021, 20:42
EPPO The European Public Prosecutor’s
Office is not an external institution but one in the service of the EU
citizens, the European chief-prosecutor, Laura Codruta Kovesi, said in Sofia on
Friday during her first visit since the EPPO’s kicked off its public activity.
We are at home in all the member states (participating in EPPO). We are here
for you and we want to earn your trust through our work, the EU official went
on to say in the last day of her visit to Bulgaria. According to Kovesi, all people
are equal when it comes to applying the law and the EPPO is not going to make any
differences whatsoever between those it is investigating. Kovesi’s visit to
Sofia comes after the Bulgarian authorities’ failure to nominate the 10
prosecutor delegates the country has a right to.
COVID-19 Romania’s infection rate with the novel coronavirus continues to
go down, the entire country being in the green tier at present. 103 new cases
were reported on Friday and the authorities have announced 150 new fatalities,
20 of them in the past 24 hours. 1300 patients are being treated in hospitals,
255 of them in intensive care. Since the vaccine rollout kicked off in December
2020, 4.1 million people in Romania have been fully vaccinated. Andrei Baciu,
state secretary with the Health Ministry has announced that the European
digital certificate for Covid-19 is to become operational in Romania on July 1st.
The digital certificate is a proof of the fact that a person has been
vaccinated, tested negative or had the disease in the past and is now cured.
TENNIS The Romanian-Argentinean pair Irina Begu /
Nadia Podoroska lost in the semifinals of the Roland Garros tennis tournament
to Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the USA and Iga Swiatek of Poland 6-3, 6-4. This
has been Begu’s second Grand Slam semifinals after that in the Australian Open in
2018 when he played together with her Romanian counterpart Monica Niculescu.
FESTIVAL The George Enescu classical music festival will
be held in Bucharest between 28th August and 26th
September under strict epidemiological conditions, organisers have announced.
This year’s edition, the festival’s 25th, will last four weeks
instead of three, and will take place at three different concert venues across
the capital city, the Palace Hall, which will seat half of its usual number of
spectators, and two other smaller venues, which will open at 70% capacity and
where spectators must present a Covid vaccination certificate or a negative test
result, apart from their tickets, to be able to attend the performances. The
festival’s line-up features 67 different performances and brings together 3,500
musicians, including leading international names and orchestras. The event is
named after Romania’s greatest composer, George Enescu, who was born 140 years
ago.
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