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\nAcademy on Monday marked through a solemn meeting, the Great Union and
\nRomania’s participation in WW1. Princess Margareta, custodian of the Romanian
\nCrown, and Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church held speeches
\nduring the ceremony. The event also marked the union on November 28th
\n1918 of the Romanian kingdom with the province of Bukovina, which had come out
\nof Austrian control. 1st of December 1918 remains a symbol for the
\nunion of all Romanians. Declared an official holiday after the anti-communist
\nrevolution of 1989, 1st of December marks the completion, at the end
\nof WW1, of the creation of the Romanian nation state following the union of all
\nprovinces with majority Romanian populations, that had been part of multinational
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\nin Bucharest has postponed for the 5th of December a decision on
\ngranting a request from Romania’s Anti-corruption Agency (DNA) to commence
\ncriminal prosecution in the case of MP Eugen Bejinariu due to the lack of quorum.
\nFormer secretary general of the government between 2003 and 2004, Bejinariu has
\nbeen accused by anti-corruption prosecutors of aggravating abuse of office in
\na file entitled Microsoft 2. Bejinariu allegedly had a considerable hand in the
\nmisappropriation of the 50% discount Microsoft had granted for IT licenses in
\nthe Romanian schools. The prejudice in this case, where a couple of former
\nministers and two former directors of Microsoft Romania are being probed in,
\nexceeds 67 million dollars. In another development, senator Vasile Blaga on
\nMonday was sent to court by the anti-corruption prosecutors in Ploiesti,
\nsouthern Romania for influence peddling. Blaga has been accused that between
\n2011 and 2012 as a secretary general of the Democratic-Liberal Party he
\nreceived from a representative of a company, also under investigation in the
\nfile, the total amount of 700 thousand euros in order to facilitate that
\ncompany’s access to contracts. <\/p>\n
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\ngovernment, trade unions and employers’ associations in Romania on Monday had
\nthe first round of talks over the minimum wages in Romania’s economy in 2017.
\nTrade unions asked for a 200 lei pay rise, whereas the executive came with
\nseveral alternatives, including a 100 lei rise. A new round of talks on the
\nissue will be taking place several days after the Parliamentary elections on
\nDecember 11th. Labour minister Dragos Paslaru talked about a draft
\nbill on unitary salary, adding that in order to solve all salary inequities in
\nthe public system, 19.5 billion lei should be earmarked until 2022. <\/p>\n
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\nRomania’s Supreme Defense Council convenes on Tuesday in Bucharest to discuss,
\namong other things, operations carried out outside the country’s borders
\nin 2017 and the stage of implementation of the
\ncountry’s national defence strategy for 2015-2019. Also approached
\nwill be measures taken by Romania with a view to implementing the sanctions
\nimposed internationally between October 2015 and September 2016, as well as
\nRomania’s medium and long-term relationship with Moldova, whose president is
\nnow the pro-Russian Igor Dodon. Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has said that
\nBucharest plans to further support Chisinau in spite of this new context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"