GROWTH In the first quarter of 2019
\nHungary, Romania and Poland saw the most significant economic growth in the
\nEuropean Union as compared to the similar period last year, the European Office
\nfor Statistics has announced. According to the same sources, Hungary reported
\nthe most significant growth, 5.2%, followed by Romania with 5.1 and Poland,
\n4.6. In the first quarter of 2019 Romania’s economy saw a 5% growth against the
\nsame period last year, says the country’s Statistics Institute in its report
\npublished on Wednesday. The country’s GDP rose by 1.3% in the first quarter of
\nthe year and the government counts on an economic growth of 5.5% this year. Last
\nweek, the European Commission revised Romania’s economic growth this year down
\nto 3.3% from a previous 3.8%. The IMF forecast also went down to 3.1% from an
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GRATITUDE 30 years on from the anti-communist revolution in Romania, the
\ncountry’s president, Klaus Iohannis, has announced that 2019 will be declared ‘The
\nYear of Gratitude’. A ceremony to honor the victims of the communist
\ndictatorship is due to be held on May 20th, which was the date when thirty
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PROTESTS Trade unionists from Romania’s
\npenitentiary system have today continued the series of protests they kicked off
\non Monday, when protest actions were held at the penitentiaries of Rahova close
\nto Bucharest and Aiud in central Romania. Protesters are calling for the
\nendorsement of the penitentiary policeman status and the pay of the extra hours
\nworked. Trade unionists have announced they are going to stage more protests
\nevery Monday, Wednesday and Friday until their requirements are met. The
\ncountry’s interim justice minister Ana Birchall on Monday and Tuesday held
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MEETING On Tuesday and Wednesday
\nBucharest is seeing the seventh meeting of education ministers from Asia and
\nEurope (ASEM), an event part of the series of meetings and conferences staged
\nduring Romania’s holding the EU rotating presidency. The meeting this year is focusing
\non the type of education that connects: inclusion, mobility and excellence in
\nsupport of sustainable development objectives’. A major issue on the talks
\nagenda is the manner in which the ASEM Educational Process is contributing to
\nsustainable development. ASEM is a cooperation platform between Europe and Asia
\nlaunched in 1996 with a view to consolidating dialogue between the two regions.
\nASEM currently has 53 partners: 51 countries (28 EU members plus Switzerland
\nand Norway, 21 Asian countries as well as two international organizations, the
\nEU and the ASEAN secretariat, which brings together nations from South-East
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TENNIS The world’s number two tennis player Simona
\nHalep of Romania will today be playing Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech
\nRepublic in the second round of the WTA tournament in Rome. Also today, in the
\nsame round of the competition, another Romanian, Mihaela Buzarnescu, will be up
\nagainst Jelena Goerges of Germany. Yesterday in the competition’s first round Buzarnescu
\nplayed Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia who withdrew from the match when the score
\nwas 6-2, 5-4 to Buzarnescu. The Romanian-Dutch pair made up of Horia Tecau and
\nJean Julien Rojer was outperformed by all-American pair Bob and Mike Bryan, 6-4,
\n7-6 in the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Rome. We recall the Dutch-Romanian
\npair on Sunday won the finals of the tournament in Madrid. <\/p>\n
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