{"id":102481,"date":"2018-01-08T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/january-8-2018-update-102481.html"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:13:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:13:51","slug":"january-8-2018-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/january-8-2018-update-id102481.html","title":{"rendered":"January 8, 2018 UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PSD<\/strong> Mihai Tudose, Prime Minister of the leftist government in Bucharest, on Monday said at the end of a session of the National Executive Committee of the main ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) that he didn\u2019t give up the idea of a cabinet reshuffle. Tudose added the issue would be tackled in detail in another Executive Committee session due in Iasi, eastern Romania in late January. The Social Democrats have also decided to propose senator Ioan Denes for the seat of the Ministry of Waters and Forests after his colleague Doina Pana has recently stepped down on health reasons. Besides Prime Minister Tudose, the PSD-ALDE government has 27 ministers, out of whom three deputy Prime Ministers and two delegate ministers.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BNR<\/strong> The board of directors of Romania\u2019s Central Bank (BNR) on Monday decided to raise the reference interest rate to 2% a year from 1.7%. According to a BNR communiqu\u00e9 the decision is to come into effect on Tuesday. Another decision is to maintain the present levels of obligatory minimum reserves on debts in the local and foreign currency of credit institutions, the BNR communiqu\u00e9 also says.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHIPWRECK <\/strong>64 migrants are believed to have lost their lives in the first major shipwreck this year in the Mediterranean sea off the coasts of Libya, the International Migration Organization has announced. 86 survivors of various African nationalities have been transported back to Libya. According to the IOM about 170 thousand migrants made it to Europe by crossing the Mediterranean last year, most of them fleeing the armed Middle East conflicts and the poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEASLES <\/strong>The death toll of the measles outbreak in Romania has reached 38, the National Centre for the Supervision and Control of Transmissible Diseases with the National Public Healthcare Institute has announced. According to the same sources, the confirmed infections have exceeded 10,300 with the most number of cases reported in unvaccinated people. In another development, Health Minister Florian Bodog has called on all the public healthcare institutions to check on all advertising billboards promoting information campaigns on vaccination. 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