ELECTION Romania is today seeing the first round of its
\npresidential election. 14 candidates are vying for the presidential seat and in
\nthe first six hours since the opening of the polling stations, turnout stays
\naround 20.68%. More than 3,700,000 people have already cast their ballot out of
\na total 18, 217,156 voters, a higher turnout compared to the first round of the
\nprevious election in 2014. As a first, Romanians living abroad have three days
\nto cast their ballot and the number of polling stations abroad has doubled to
\n838. Over 400 thousand Romanians have so far cast their ballot in the polling
\nstations abroad. Out of these, 25 thousand have opted for postal voting. The
\nbiggest turnout has been reported in Britain, Italy and Spain. The second round
\nof voting is due on November 24th when the Romanians living abroad
\nare also to be given three days to vote. The authorities have taken these
\nmeasures to avoid the huge queues registered in the previous presidential
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COMMISSIONERS The new commissioners
\ndesignated by Romania, Hungary and France are to be interviewed by the European
\nParliament next week. After they have been given the green light by the
\nCommittee on Legal Affairs JURI, which could signal any possible conflict of
\ninterest in the case of the three candidates – Adina Valean of Romania, Olivier
\nVarhelyi of Hungary and Thierry Breton of France will be interviewed by the
\nspecialized committees of the European Parliament. The Romanian candidate will
\nbe interviewed by the Transport and Tourism committee, Varhelyi by the Foreign
\nAffairs Committee and Breton by the Committee for Industry, Research and Energy.
\nAfter the interviews, the president elect of the European Commission, Ursula
\nvon der Leyen will be presenting the entire College of Commissioners to the
\ncommunity Legislature. We recall that the Romanian MEP Adina Valean has been
\naccepted by the European Commission president for the position of European
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RATING A decision by the Fitch rating
\nagency to reconfirm Romania’s country rating to BBB – with a stable outlook has
\nbeen based on the moderate level of public debt and the positive evolution of
\nthe GDP per capita and the human development indexes, the Finance Ministry in
\nBucharest has announced. According to the aforementioned ministry, another
\npositive factor is the solid banking sector. In the following period, the
\nMinistry will be focusing on budget rectification and budget construction for
\n2020, crucial measures for strengthening the country’s macroeconomic stability.
\nFitch has also affirmed its ratings for Romania’s long-term and local currency
\nissuer default ratings (IDR) at BBB – with stable outlook. According to the
\nagency, budget and current account deficits could jeopardize macroeconomic
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HANDBALL Today in
\nthe Champions League, the Romanian champions in women’s handball, CSM Ramnicu
\nValcea, takes on German side Bietigheim, while vice-champions CSM Bucharest
\nplays Danish side Esbjerg in a home match. CSM is already qualified for the
\nmain groups. Two other Romanian sides, CS Gloria Bistrita-Nasaud and CSM Corona
\nBrasov played against each other in the third round of the EHF Cup yesterday.
\nBrasov won the game 27-25 coming closer to the competition’s groups. In men’s
\nhandball, Champions Dinamo Bucharest have qualified for the Champions League’s
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