Romania’s
\nPresident Klaus Iohannis is today attending the nuclear security summit in
\nWashington, where he has stated that Romania complies with the highest
\nstandards in the field. Also today, the head of state will meet with
\nrepresentatives of the Romanian community in the US. On Thursday, Klaus
\nIohannis said at the Holocaust Memorial in Washington that he would support the
\nsetting up in Romania of a Museum of the Jews and the Holocaust, and that there
\nshould be more focus on education about democratic values. The Romanian
\nPresident has warned that the number of xenophobic and racist incidents has
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Family doctors in
\nRomania are protesting again, unhappy with the fact that medical services cannot
\nbe reimbursed, as the framework agreement with the National Health Insurance
\nAgency was not extended. Doctors have announced they will not issue any
\nsubsidized prescriptions and medical letters. They are discontent with the
\nunder funding of their sector and with the fact that they are forced to pay
\nfrom their own pockets the errors caused by the health card. Doctors threaten
\nthat if their claims are not solved, they will start a warning strike within 10
\ndays. Last week, family doctors picketed the headquarters of the Health
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In January -
\nMarch 2016, Romania’s national currency, the leu, managed to appreciate against
\n13 currencies out of the 16 most important in the region, but also against the
\nEuro, the USD and the Swiss Franc. The Romanian currency thus registered its
\nbest quarter in the last years. The Euro lost 1.1% to the leu, from 4.52 lei,
\nthe reference rate established by the National Bank of Romania in its last
\nsession of December 2015, to 4.47 lei, as set by the Central Bank on Thursday.
\nThe USD lost 5% to the leu in the first quarter of the year, after depreciating
\nagainst the EU against the background of cautious expectations regarding the
\nmonetary policy of the US Federal Reserve, the most powerful central bank in
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The President of
\nTurkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, currently on a visit to Washington, has made an
\nappeal to the European countries to support his government’s fight against the
\nKurdish separatists. On Thursday, Turkey was hit again by a suicide attack, the
\nthird in less than three weeks, blamed on PKK. A car bomb exploded in the town
\nof Diyarbakir, in the south-east, killing 70 policemen and wounding 27 people,
\nhalf of them also policemen.<\/p>\n
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Romanian Monica Niculescu and
\nRussian Margarita Gasparyan are today playing against the pair made up of Timea
\nBabos of Hungary \/ Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan, in the semi-finals of the
\ntennis tournament in Miami, the US, with 6 million dollars in prize money.
\nNiculescu and Gasparyian, who have only played in three tournaments together,
\ndefeated the the eight finals’ first seeds, namely Martina Hingis of
\nSwitzerland and Sania Mirza of India. In another move, the best Romanian tennis
\nplayer, Simona Halep, did not manage to get by the quarters in Miami, as she
\nwas defeated by the Swiss player Timea Bacsinzky, no. 20 in the WTA
\nclassification. Starting Monday, Halep will take one step down the WTA
\nrankings, as she will be the 6th
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Romania’s
\nchampion women’s handball team, CSM Bucharest, on Thursday defeated on home
\nturf the Russian team Rostov Don, 26-25, in the quarter finals of the Champions
\nLeague. The return game is scheduled for April 9th in Russia and its
\nstake is the qualification for the 4th final tournament in Budapest,
\non May 7th and 8th. CSM is headed by a Danish coach and
\nis at its first participation in the most important inter-club competition in
\nEurope. The other feminine squad, the vice-champion HCM Baia Mare will on
\nSaturday take on Buducnost Podgorita of Montenegro. The return game is due on
\nApril 10th.<\/p>\n
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