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\nof Romania’s Central Bank are today being heard in a joint Parliament session
\nof the Senate’s committees for economy and budget-finances. Central Bank
\ngovernor Mugur Isarescu will be speaking about how interest rates on the
\ninter-banking market are being calculated and also refer to the profit banks in
\nRomania are making. According to Isarescu the data he is going to present is
\nfar from what has recently been presented by the media. In turn, the chairman
\nof the Economic Committee, Daniel Zamfir has said that talks will also focus on
\nhow the ROBOR index is being calculated, according to the interest rate the
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TALKS Parliament in Bucharest is carrying on talks over the country’s budget
\nthis year. MPs are today discussing budgets for most of the ministries, the
\ngovernment secretariat, the state radio and television broadcasters, for the
\nAgerpress news agency and the National Council of Audio-Visual. Debates are expected
\nto end with Finance Ministry representatives who are to decide whether the
\nfunds requested through amendments submitted by opposition and power representatives,
\nare to be granted. This year’s budget has been based on 5.5% economic growth, a
\n2.5% deficit and a GDP over 200 billion Euros. <\/p>\n
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TENNIS <\/strong>Two tennis players from Romania are on the
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\nmain draw of the singles competition of the WTA tennis tournament in Doha, Qatar.
\nThe WTA’s 29th Mihaela Buzarnescu will be up against 22nd
\n– ranked Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia. The two are equal, 2-all, in head-to-head matches.
\nThe world’s number third who is also the competition’s odds-on favourite,
\nSimona Halep will be playing directly in the second round against the winner of
\nthe match pitching Caroline Garcia of France and Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko.
\nHalep won the Doha tournament in 2014 after beating Angelique Kerber of Germany
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\nRomania’s permanent representative at the UN, ambassador Ion Jinga has attended
\nthe proceedings of the 57th session of the Committee for Social
\nDevelopment. Against the backdrop of Romania’s holding the EU rotating
\npresidency, ambassador Jinga presented on behalf of the 28 EU members, a
\nstatement on social inclusion through fiscal, salary and social protection
\npolicies. The Romanian diplomat has focused on the promotion of the European
\npillar of social rights and a pattern of social development based on
\nsustainable economic growth, continuous professional training and employment
\npolicies focusing on the young people, the disabled and the family. <\/p>\n
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\nRomania has reached 109, the National Centre for the Supervision and Control of
\nTransmissible Diseases with the National Institute of Public Health has
\nannounced. According to the country’s Health Minister Sorina Pintea, for the
\ntime being, we cannot still speak about a decreasing epidemic. Data released by
\nthe aforementioned institute confirmed over 3000 cases of infection last week. <\/p>\n
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