RULING Romania’s Constitutional Court has today ruled over a draft on
\nreviewing the country’s Constitution, which stipulates the family is based on
\nthe freely consented marriage between a man and a woman, not between spouses as
\nit is at present. The draft, endorsed by the Senate last week, must be
\nvalidated through a referendum, which is due on October 7th. With
\nthe exception of the opposing USR (Save Romania Union) all Parliamentarian
\nparties have endorsed the draft, which is based on a citizens’ initiative,
\nwhich gathered over 3 million signatures from all over the country. According
\nto ACCEPT, an organization that campaigns for sexual minority rights, the vote
\nin the Senate infringes upon the right to private and family life, which
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RABLA A programme aimed at renewing Romania’s car fleet called RABLA has resumed in Romania today.
\nAccording to environment Minister Gratiela Gavrilescu 30 thousand scrapping
\nincentives have been made available after the government has approved another
\n43 million Euros for environmental preservation. So, any Romanian who may want
\nto buy a car can benefit from a bonus of 14 hundred Euros and another 366 Euros
\nfor the purchase of a hybrid car. Legal persons can also benefit the Rabla programme. <\/p>\n
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CLEANUP Roughly 340 thousand volunteers have participated in the 6th
\nedition of the National Cleanup Day staged by ‘Let’s Do It, Romania!’
\nfoundation on September 15th. Let’s Do It, Romania! is the largest
\nsocial movement in Romania and the event on Saturday was part of the World
\nCleanup Day, carried under the aegis of Let’s Do it, World and the United
\nNations Environment Programme. 13 million volunteers from 155 countries have
\njoined the international cleanup action. The objective of the World Cleanup Day is
\nto mobilize 5% of the world population in order to change people’s attitude
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SUMMIT Today and tomorrow, Bucharest is seeing the third Summit
\nof the Three Seas Initiative, an informal political platform at presidential
\nlevel, which brings togehter the 12 EU members between the Baltic Sea, the
\nAdriatic and the Black Sea – Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic,
\nEstonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
\nThe initiative’s main objective is development on three main directions:
\ntransportation, energy and digital. The first edition of the Initiative’s
\nBusiness Forum is to take place on the sidelines of the event, which is
\nattended for the first time by the European Commission president Jean Claude
\nJuncker. The initiative’s first two editions took place in Dubrovnik, Croatia
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TENNIS The Romanian Simona Halep continues
\nto have a laid-back lead in the WTA professional tennis rankings made public on
\nMonday. Now in her 46th week as a world standings leader and 11th-placed
\naccording to an all-time a classification, Halep is more than 2,000 points
\nclear of runner-up Danish Caroline Wozniacki, and more than 2,500 points clear
\nof third-placed tennis player, German Angelique Kerber. Of the Top 100 WTA
\nRomanian tennis players, only Irina Begu went two notches down, from the 53rd
\nto the 55th position, while the other Romanian tennis players have
\nretained their WTA places; Mihaela Buzarnescu is still 23rd-placed and
\nSorana Carstea is 50th-ranked, while Ana Bogdan is ranked the 80th
\nand Monica Niculescu is on the 81st position. The rankings remain
\nunchanged for the 2018 WTA Finals as well, with Simona Halep at the top of the
\ntable, followed in descending order by Angelique Kerber, who is almost 1,800
\npoints down from Halep. Both tennis players have qualified for the Singapore
\ncompetition while third-placed is the Czech Petra Kvitova. <\/p>\n
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