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POLITICS – The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, a
\nformer ruling coalition partner, on Tuesday decided to exclude all members who
\naccept positions in Parliament and the Government without the party’s consent.
\nOne such example could be Vice-president Teodor Melescanu, who said he would
\nrun for the position of Senate Speaker. The Alliance expressed their support
\nfor Ion Popa, after the outgoing Speaker Calin Popescu-Tarcieanu resigned on
\nMonday. Previously, three Alliance ministers stepped down, Environment Minister
\nGratiela Gavrilescu, Minister for Liaison with Parliament Viorel Ilie and
\nEnergy Minister Anton Anton. Foreign Minister Ramona Manescu preferred to
\nresign from the party in order to preserve her ministry portfolio. Prime
\nMinister Viorica Dancila said the Social-Democratic Party will remain in power
\nin order to implement the governing program that won the party the election in
\n2016. President Klaus Iohannis has called on the Government to seek
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RATING -
\nPolitical turmoil in Romania has increased the risks targeting public finance,
\nFitch Ratings agency reports. The break of the ruling coalition in an election
\nyear as well as growing macroeconomic imbalances have reduced the efforts to
\nkeep the rising budget deficit in check. Fitch Ratings also believes that the
\nGovernment’s budget adjustment measures operated in August are not enough to
\nreduce the deficit within the 2.76% mark. Fitch experts expect Romania’s
\ndeficit to stand at 3.4% of the GDP in 2019. <\/p>\n
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EARTHQUAKE – A 4.5 Richter-scale earthquake shook
\nRomania on Tuesday, the biggest in Romania this year. We recall that on March
\n4, 1977 a 7.2 Richter-scale earthquake killed 1,570 people, mostly from
\nBucharest, and caused material damage estimated at the time at 2 billion
\ndollars. 230 thousand residential buildings were destroyed or seriously
\ndamaged. The quake caused an economic and social crisis which, according to
\nhistorians, the Communist dictatorship could no longer cope with, until it was
\ntoppled in December 1989. Experts warn that hundreds of buildings might
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EXERCISE The
\nRomanian Navy organizes as of Tuesday the Romanian-Ukrainian exercise Riverine
\n2019, on the River Danube, the segment between Tulcea (Romania) and Izmail
\n(Ukraine), with approx. 300 marines from the 2 countries taking part. The
\nexercise is designed to improve cross-border cooperation between Romania and Ukraine
\nin the naval field on the River Danube. Until September 7, inspection and
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TABLE TENNIS – The Romanian men’s table tennis team
\ndefeated neighboring Hungary 3-1 in the opening match in Group 2 at the
\nEuropean Table Tennis Championships hosted by Nantes, France. On Wednesday, in
\nthe same Group, Sweden will play Hungary while on Thursday Romania will play
\nSweden. The winners of each group will advance to the quarterfinals. In the
\nwomen’s competition, Romania, the defending European champion, has been drawn
\nin Group A alongside Spain and Slovakia. <\/p>\n
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FOOTBALL – Romania’s national football team is
\npreparing the matches against Spain and Malta this week, both counting towards
\nthe European Football Championship held next year. After four matches Spain is
\ntop of the group tables with 12 points, followed by Sweden and Romania, each
\nwith 7 points, Norway with 5 points, Malta with 3 points and the Faeroe Islands
\nwith zero points. The top two teams will advance to the final championship. The
\ndraw for the 2020 European Championship will take place in Bucharest on
\nNovember 30. Romania’s capital city will host four games at the European
\nChampionship, of which three in the group phase and one in the round of
\n16. <\/p>\n
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