BUDGET Romania’s Parliament on Friday
\npassed the budget draft law and the social security draft on 2019. The budget
\nwas drawn up by taking into account an economic growth of 5.5%, a deficit of
\n2.76% and a GDP of more than 200 billion Euros. According to the ruling
\nPSD-ALDE coalition, the budget reflects Romania’s economic and social realities
\nlaying emphasis on three priority issues: healthcare, education and investment.
\nThe opposition MPs from the National Liberal Party, the Save Romania Union and
\nthe People’s Movement Party, have voted against the draft, arguing that the
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DNA The former head of Romania’s main
\nAnti-corruption Agency (DNA), Laura Codruta Kovesi, on Friday went to the
\nDepartment for the Investigation of Magistrates with the General Prosecutor’s
\nOffice in Bucharest to be briefed upon the accusations leveled against her in a
\nfile where she has been charged with abuse of office, bribe-taking and false
\ntestimony. After the hearings, Kovesi said she had submitted two recusation applications
\nagainst both the special prosecutor and the department’s chief prosecutor.
\nKovesi said she wasn’t guilty and that there was no coincidence that the
\nsubpoena she received came right ahead her upcoming interview with the European
\nParliament for the position of European chief prosecutor. The local press has
\ncredited Kovesi as Romania’s right candidate for the job. <\/p>\n
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TENNIS Romanian tennis player Simona Halep, who is also the
\nworld’s number 3, on Friday qualified for the finals of the WTA tournament
\nin Doha, Qatar, a competition with more than 900 thousand dollars in prize
\nmoney. The Romanian defeated Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. In the
\nSaturday’s finals, Halep will be up against Elise Mertens of Belgium who
\nsecured a 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 win against Angelique Kerber of Germany. <\/p>\n
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SECURITY As a high-ranking
\nrepresentative of Romania, a country currently holding the six-month rotating
\npresidency of the Council of the European Union, President Klaus Iohannis is opening
\non Saturday a series of debates part of the 55th Munich Security
\nConference, together with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and the President
\nof Egypt, the country currently holding the presidency of the African Union.
\nThe Romanian official is expected to underline the need to consolidate NATO as
\na warrantor of Euro-Atlantic Security, as well as the fact that cooperation and
\ncoordination between NATO and the EU guarantees security and prosperity. Iohannis
\nhas pointed out that the Black Sea region is one of the most important
\nstrategic landmarks of the current security context, and Romania wants to
\nremain a pillar of regional stability and a source of security and stability in
\nNATO and the EU. The Munich Security Conference is a major global forum for the
\ndiscussion of security policy. <\/p>\n
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