October 31, 2019
A roundup of domestic and international news.
Newsroom, 31.10.2019, 14:03
NOMINATION – European Commission spokeswoman, Mina Andreeva, has said that the proposal made by the outgoing Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, does not have the support of President Klaus Iohannis, which raises serious doubts in Brussels over its legitimacy. The EU official went on to say that the Commission can neither accept nor refuse the proposal, and that the problem has to be settled in Romania. We remind you that Victor Negrescu is the third proposal for European Commissioner made by Romania, after Rovana Plumb and Dan Nica.
MISSION – Regele Ferdinand Frigate of the Romanian Navy, together with a Puma Naval helicopter and a Navy Special Operations unit are taking part until November 7th in a new NATO mission in the Mediterranean. The goal of Operation Sea Guardian 19 is to discourage illegal activities in the southern flank of NATO and the EU, by means of sea and air traffic monitoring. During the mission, the Romanian frigate will have stopovers in Haifa, Israel, and Limassol, Cyprus. The first stop was in the port of Aksaz, in the south of Turkey, followed by another one in Alexandria, Egypt, where a first meeting was held aboard, with members of the Romanian community in Egypt.
ANNIVERSARY — Radio Romania, the public radio station, marks, on November 191 years since its first broadcast, occasion on which this day will be an Open Door day. It first aired on November 1st, 1928 and its first president was phisician Dragomir Hurmuzescu. One of the few radio stations in the country that has been broadcasting for decades, Radio Romania has also been broadcasting abroad, every since the 1930s. Radio Romania International has programmes in 11 foreign languages, in Romanian and in the Aromanian dialect.
UNEMPLOYMENT — The unemployment rate in Romania has reached 3.9% in September, up by 0.1% as against its level in August, according to data provided by the National Statistics Institute made public on Thursday. According to official statistics, the unemployment rate was by 1% bigger among men than among women, 4.3% as against 3.3%. At the same time, the number of unemployed people aged between 15 and 74 estimated for September 2019 was 347 thousand people, up against the previous month when it stood at 343 thousand people.
HANDBALL– Romania’s men’s handball team Dinamo Bucharest on Wednesday evening defeated, on home ground, the Polish team Orlen Wisla Plock, 29-20, in a Group D match of the Champions League. With 3 wins and 2 draws in the previous matches, Dinamo Bucharest is the leader of the group. (Translated by Elena Enache)
