Elections.<\/strong> The incumbent president Klaus Iohannis, backed by the ruling
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Economy.<\/strong>
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Trial.<\/strong> The Bucharest
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Anniversary.<\/strong> Bucharest celebrates
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European Commission.<\/strong> The European Parliament meets in plenary session in
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Pope visit.<\/strong> On a visit to Japan, pope Francis met emperor Naruhito, with
Incumbent president Klaus Iohannis wins second term in Sundays elections in Romania.\/The Bucharest Tribunal is hearing the final arguments in the Colectiv trial, four years after the nightclub fire that killed dozens.<\/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":[30102,29431,29212,30247,29268,29283],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-103949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsflash","tag-anniversary","tag-colectiv","tag-economy","tag-elections","tag-parliament","tag-trial"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nNational Liberal Party, has won a runoff vote against the former Social
\nDemocratic prime minister Viorica Dancila. After the counting of 99.67% of the
\nballots cast on Sunday in Romania, Iohannis won 65.88% of the votes, while his
\nrival won 34.12%. Voter turnout was around 50% in Romania, 2% more than in the
\nfirst round. Abroad, where the voting process took place over the course of
\nthree days, 944,000 voters cast their ballots, which is a record figure. The
\nbiggest turnout was registered in Italy, the UK, Germany, Spain and the
\nRepublic of Moldova. <\/p>\n
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\nRomania’s economic growth rate is projected to slow down to 3.2% in 2020 and go
\nup to 3.7% in 2021 according to the latest estimates of the Organisation for
\nEconomic Cooperation and Development. Its report expects the trade deficit to
\ncontinue to grow because of weak foreign demand and lower low price
\ncompetitiveness. Investment growth is expected to remain at a moderate pace,
\nsupported by a higher absorption of European funds. According to the OECD
\nreport, the budget deficit is projected to grow over the next two years. The organisation’s
\nexperts say that in order to reduce budget deficit, the government should
\nreconsider the scope and timetable of pension reform. Otherwise, spending cuts
\nmay be necessary in priority areas such as education, healthcare and
\ninfrastructure. The pension reform is expected to increase budget spending by
\n2% of the GDP by 2021. <\/p>\n
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\nTribunal is today hearing the closing arguments in the Colectiv trial, four
\nyears after a devastating fire at a Bucharest nightclub. On trial among others
\nare the mayor of the Bucharest sector in which the club was located, Cristian
\nPopescu, and the club’s owners. The trial into the tragedy at Colectiv
\nnightclub began in April 2016. After two years of delays based on procedural
\nissues, the magistrate in charge of the case retired. The new judge sped up the
\nhearings, setting weekly court dates. 64 people were killed in the fire, one
\ncommitted suicide because of the trauma, and almost 200 suffered injuries. <\/p>\n
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\ntoday 100 years of parliamentary tradition in united Romania. In 1919,
\nprecisely one year after the achievement of the Great Union, the first
\nParliament of Greater Romania held its first session. The result of elections
\nheld for the first time in a state that brought together almost all territories
\nthat had been inhabited by a majority Romanian population, that first
\nparliament brought together an impressive host of prominent figures. The
\nRomanian Academy is holding a special event today to mark this anniversary. <\/p>\n
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\nStrasbourg. The main topic on its agenda is voting on the membership and
\nprogramme of the future European Commission. Ursula von der Leyen, who was
\ndesignated president of the Commission in July, is presenting her team and her
\nCommission’s programme. MEPs will vote following a debate. If it wins a simple
\nmajority of votes, the European Commission will begin work on the 1st
\nof December. The vote in the European Parliament brings to an end a long
\nprocess of careful examination of each commissioner proposed. <\/p>\n
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\nwhom he talked about the environment. Earlier, the pope met the survivors of
\nthe earthquake and tsunami that hit north-eastern Japan in March 2011, in which
\n18,500 people were killed and were followed by a nuclear disaster at Fukushima.
\nThe pontiff voiced concern about the sources of energy of the future,
\nreferencing a call by Japanese Catholic bishops for an end to nuclear energy.
\nAnother goal of the pope’s trip to Japan is to provide support for the Catholic
\ncommunity in this country, where only 1% of the population identifies as Christian,
\nhalf of them Catholics. This is the first visit by a pope to Japan in the last
\n38 years and the second in history. <\/p>\n
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