NATIONAL DAY – The Chamber of Deputies
\nand the Senate are today convening in a solemn joint session to mark the
\nNational Day of Romania. Addressing Parliament will be President Klaus
\nIohannis, Senate Speaker Teodor Melescanu, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Marcel
\nCiolacu, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban as well as representatives of
\nparliamentary groups. The list of guests includes former heads of state, the
\nCustodian of the Royal Crown, Margareta, Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch
\nDaniel, the archbishops of the Roman-Catholic and Eastern-Catholic Churches,
\nthe presidents of the Constitutional Court, the High Court of Cassation and
\nJustice, the Romanian Academy, the Court of Accounts and the Legislative Council.
\nAttending will also be National Bank Governor Mugur Isarescu, Ombudsman Renate
\nWeber, Bucharest City Hall Mayor Gabriela Firea, the directors of the Romanian
\nIntelligence Service, the Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service, the Protection
\nand Guard Service, the Special Telecommunications Service as well as members of
\nthe Government. December 1 became Romania’s National Day after the December
\n1989 anti-Communist revolution and it marks the completion, at the end of WWI,
\nin 1918, of the process of creating the Romanian unitary nation state, when all
\nthe provinces included in the neighboring multinational empires, with a
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JHA – The Justice and Home Affairs
\nCouncil of the European Union is convening in Brussels on December 2-3. High on
\nthe agenda are topics such as the future EU policies on migration and asylum,
\nhome security, combating terrorism, environmental crime and alternative
\ndetention measures. On Tuesday, the new EU chief prosecutor, Romanian Laura
\nCodruta Kovesi will present her vision and plans for the European Public
\nProsecutor’s Office. The institution is set to start its activity in November
\n2020, by which date the chief prosecutor must coordinate the setup and
\nfunctioning of the new structure. The EPPO will investigate cross-border fraud
\ncases at community level. So far 22 Member States have officially adhered to
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BILL – Save Romania Union leader Dan
\nBarna said the draft law on the organization of local elections in two separate
\nrounds should be adopted by the end of Parliament’s current session. Prime
\nMinister Ludovic Orban claims the Liberals support the bill, warning however it
\nrequires the vote of at least 165 MPs, while the Liberal Party is supported by
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UNEMPLOYMENT – The unemployment rate in
\nRomania stood at 2.98% in October, a slight decrease compared to the same month
\nin 2018 and to the previous month this year, the National Employment Agency
\nannounced on Monday. The total number of unemployed was below 260 thousand,
\nmost of whom were reported in rural areas. Most of them are aged 40-49,
\nfollowed by those above 55 years of age. Broken down in terms of training,
\nunemployed people without any diplomas and those with basic education had the
\nlargest share of total number of unemployed.<\/p>\n
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NATO – London on Tuesday and Wednesday
\nis hosting the NATO summit, celebrating 70 years of NATO existence. High on the
\nagenda are the fight against terrorism, arms control and relations with Russia
\nand China. Representing Romania will be president Klaus Iohannis. According to
\nthe presidency, Klaus Iohannis will highlight Romania’s contribution as a NATO
\nmember and the need to continue determent and security efforts on the eastern
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HANDBALL -
\nRomanian champions Dinamo Bucharest on Sunday defeated GOG Gudme of Denmark
\n32-31 in Group D of the men’s Champions League. Dinamo is undefeated at the end
\nof the group phase, with 7 wins and 3 draws. They are top of the tables with 17
\npoints, followed by Orlen Wisla Plock of Poland with 11 points, GOG of Denmark
\nwith 9 points, IFK Kristianstad of Sweden with 9 points, Cehovskie Medvedi of
\nRussia with 8 points and Kadetten Schaffhausen of Switzerland with 6 points. In
\nthe playoff, Dinamo will play Sporting Lisbon of Portugal. The first leg will
\nbe played away from home in February, with the return leg scheduled in
\nBucharest. The two teams faced off in last year’s edition of the playoffs as
\nwell, when Sporting won 32-31 in the first leg and 27-26 in the return leg. In
\nwomen’s handball, at the World Cup in Japan, Romania will play Kazakhstan on
\nTuesday. Romania so far lost 16-31 to Spain and defeated Senegal 29-24. <\/p>\n
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