{"id":103874,"date":"2019-10-24T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/24-october-2019-update-103874.html"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:37:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:37:02","slug":"24-october-2019-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/24-october-2019-update-id103874.html","title":{"rendered":"24 October 2019, UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Government. <\/strong>The prime minister designate Ludovic Orban on Thursday made&#13;<br \/>\npublic his nominations for the cabinet positions. The government proposed by&#13;<br \/>\nthe Liberal leader has only 16 ministries and one deputy prime minister, with&#13;<br \/>\nRaluca Turcan being proposed for the latter post. According to the governing programme&#13;<br \/>\npresented by the National Liberal Party, the urgent measures include ensuring&#13;<br \/>\nthe best conditions for the organisation of the upcoming presidential elections&#13;<br \/>\nin November, nominating a candidate for the position of European commissioner&#13;<br \/>\nand amending the state budget for 2019 and drafting the budget for next year.&#13;<br \/>\nOrban will submit his nominations and programme to Parliament, which will&#13;<br \/>\nestablish a timetable for interviews with the candidates and a vote in a joint&#13;<br \/>\nsitting of the two chambers. The maths, however, indicate that the Liberals&#13;<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t have a majority in Parliament yet after talks with the Pro Romania party led&#13;<br \/>\nby the former prime minister Victor Ponta have collapsed. The support of the&#13;<br \/>\nPeople&#8217;s Movement Party is also in doubt, this party being unhappy with the&#13;<br \/>\nidea of a minority Liberal government. The Save Romania Union and the Alliance&#13;<br \/>\nof Liberals and Democrats say they have reached a political agreement with the&#13;<br \/>\nLiberals. We recall that the National Liberal Party initiated the no-confidence&#13;<br \/>\nmotion that brought down Viorica Dancila&#8217;s Social Democrat government on the 10th&#13;<br \/>\nof October. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>European prosecutor.<\/strong> The decision to appoint Romania&#8217;s former anti-corruption chief Laura Codruta Kovesi as the head of the future European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office was signed on Wednesday by the speaker of the European Parliament David Sassoli and the Finnish minister for European affairs Tytti Tuppurainen on behalf of the Council of the European Union. This comes after the European Parliament&#8217;s Conference of Presidents on the 16th of October completed the final step in the process to appoint Kovesi as the first European public prosecutor. An idea launched and promoted by the former Romanian cabinet member and MEP Monica Macovei, the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office is to start operating at the end of 2020 as an independent body in charge of investigating, prosecuting and indicting crimes against the European Union budget such as fraud, corruption and cross-border VAT fraud in excess of 10 million euros. 22 states are participating at the moment, with the remaining five states, namely Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Ireland and Denmark, being able to join at any point.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Pollution tax.<\/strong> Plans to introduce a duty on Euro 5 emissions standard cars&#13;<br \/>\ntravelling in Bucharest were adopted on Thursday by the General Council of the&#13;<br \/>\nBucharest City Hall. The introduction of the duty on Euro 4 vehicles has been&#13;<br \/>\npostponed by one year, to January 1st 2021. Access to the capital&#13;<br \/>\ncity for non-Euro, Euro 1 and Euro 2 vehicles will be prohibited beginning in&#13;<br \/>\n2022 and for Euro 3 cars beginning in 2024. Bucharest&#8217;s mayor Gabriela Firea&#13;<br \/>\nsays the money raised from this tax will be channelled to environmental&#13;<br \/>\nprojects and the purchase of eco-friendly public transport. Exempt from paying&#13;<br \/>\nthe duty will be people with disabilities and their carers, scooters and&#13;<br \/>\nmotorcycles, emergency vehicles, tax authorities vehicles and the broadcasting&#13;<br \/>\nvehicles of media institutions. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold style=font-size: 1em;>Exercise.<\/strong> Constanta, Romania&#8217;s biggest maritime port located in the&#13;<br \/>\nsouth-east of the country, saw the completion of a multinational exercise&#13;<br \/>\nplanned by the Supreme Headquarters Allied&#13;<br \/>\nPowers Europe. The operations took place in Romania and the neighbouring Bulgaria&#13;<br \/>\nand were conducted by the Allied Joint Force Command Naples. The exercise was intended&#13;<br \/>\nto offer participants clear understanding of national defense&#13;<br \/>\ncapabilities and terrain in both Bulgaria and Romania.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Tennis. <\/strong>The Romanian-Dutch doubles pair Horia Tecau and Jean-Julien Rojer&#13;<br \/>\non Thursday reached the semifinals of the ATP tournament in Basel, Switzerland,&#13;<br \/>\nworth more than 2 million euros in prize money. They defeated the British pair Jamie&#13;<br \/>\nMurray and Neal Skupski in two sets. This is Tecau and Rojer&#8217;s third semifinal&#13;<br \/>\nin Basel after 2015 and 2016. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roundup of some of the main stories in Romania today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":75903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[29286,33439,30200],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-103874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsflash","tag-government","tag-pollution","tag-prosecutor"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>24 October 2019, UPDATE - Radio Romania International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/24-october-2019-update-id103874.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"24 October 2019, UPDATE - 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