May 5, 2015
A roundup of domestic and international news.
Newsroom, 05.05.2015, 12:00
The military base in Deveselu, in southern Romania, part of the allied anti-missile shield, will operate under the authority of the Allied Joint Force Command in Naples, Italy, Romanian Defence Minister Mircea Dusa announced on Tuesday. Mircea Dusa had a meeting on Tuesday, in Bucharest with Admiral Mark Ferguson, the Commander of the Allied Joint Force Command. The two officials discussed about the dispatch, next month, of 1,000 military from 21 states in Brasov, in central Romania, to take part in a military drill.
Over 330 Romania and Portuguese military are taking part, until June 30th, at the air base in Campia Turzii, in north-western Romania, in the military drill “Falcon Defence 2015”, which aims to increase interoperability among NATO member states. This exercise is also part of NATO’s measures to improve the security of the alliance’s eastern members.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis is holding talks on Wednesday with the leaders of the parliamentary parties on the law on electronic communication and the law regarding Romania’s cyber-security, also known as the “Big Brother” laws. The Chamber of Deputies rejected these laws, which had returned on the chamber’s table after being analysed by the Constitutional Court. The Court had deemed both of them unconstitutional. The latest round of consultations between the head of state and the parliamentary parties was held on April 20.
Health cards have become operational in Romania and are compulsory as of May 1st. Nevertheless, hundreds of thousands of people have not yet received the card while for the patients who did not have the cards activated, the activation process has been extremely difficult, and in most cases it has failed, while those who had already had their cards activated had to spend a lot of time in the doctor’s practice due to system errors. The National Health Insurance House says that using the health card does not block the IT system but simply delays the system response. It estimates that problems will be solved in 2 weeks at the most. Over 13.6 million health cards have been distributed so far and about 500 thousand people are still to receive it.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis is holding talks on Wednesday with the leaders of the parliamentary parties on the law on electronic communication and the law regarding Romania’s cyber-security, also known as the “Big Brother” laws. The Chamber of Deputies rejected these laws, which had returned on the chamber’s table after being analysed by the Constitutional Court. The Court had deemed both of them unconstitutional. The latest round of consultations between the head of state and the parliamentary parties was held on April 20.
The European Commission on Tuesday adopted new regulations in support of the countries with low absorbtion rates of the EU funds, Romania included. This initiative of the European Commissioner Corina Cretu is a new version of the regional policy programs of 2007-2013, and gives these countries the possibility to still use the available funds by year-end. More on this issue, after the news.
After the withdrawal of German Andrea Petkovic, Romanian Irina Begu, seed no. 37, qualified for the eight finals of the Madrid tennis tournament, worth almost 4.2 million euros. Begu has also qualified for the eight finals of the women’s singles, and, together with Spanish player Martinez Sanchez will play against the team made up of Vera Dusevina of Russia and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain. Another Romania tennis player, Raluca Olaru will play with Janette Husarova of Slovakia against Swiss Martina Higins and Indian Sania Mirza, also in the eight finals. In men’s doubles, the team made up of Romanian Florin Mergea and Indian Rohan Bopanna will be up against the French team Micolas Mahut /Roger Vasselin, in the eight finals.
