Commemoration.<\/strong> In Timi\u015foara (western Romania), events
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Presidency.<\/strong> President Klaus Iohannis will be sworn in on Saturday
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Government. <\/strong>The Liberal PM Ludovic Orban reiterated for Radio
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Hearings.<\/strong> The former Romanian interior minister Carmen Dan was heard on
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Workers. <\/strong>The Government of
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\ndevoted to the December 1989 anti-communist uprising continued on Friday today.
\nA commemorative plaque offered by the US
\npresident was unveiled at the former military unit in Freedom Square. Sirens
\nsounded at noon, to mark the day when Timisoara became the first Romanian city
\nfree from communism. Near Bucharest, a group of descendants of Revolution
\nheroes, who are marching to the capital city, took part in a religious ceremony
\nin the village of Pope\u015fti-Leordeni, where the ashes of the revolutionaries shot
\nin Timi\u015foara and cremated in Bucharest had been disposed of, 30 years ago. On
\nThursday the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the commemoration of
\nthe Romanian Revolution, paying tribute to the heroes that sacrificed their lives
\nfor freedom and democracy. The European Parliament also requests the Romanian
\ngovernment to step up efforts to find out the truth about those events. EU
\ninstitutions and national parliaments are urged to do everything in their power
\nto ensure that the crimes committed by the communist regimes will never be
\nrepeated. We have more on this after the news.<\/p>\n
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\nbefore the joint chambers of Parliament. Presenting a report on his first term
\nin office yesterday,Klaus Iohannis said the past 5 years had seen major
\nchallenges, perhaps the most serious of which was for Romania to divert from
\nits Western democratic path. In terms of foreign policy, the president
\nmentioned that he had focused on strengthening Romania’s role as a EU and NATO
\nmember and on extending and reinforcing the strategic partnership with the US.
\nDomestically, Klaus Iohannis added, his priorities were to ensure the proper
\nfunctioning of public authorities. He reiterated that during the past 3 years,
\nunder successive Social Democratic governments, attempts were made at hijacking
\nthe government and weakening the state by means of undermining the judiciary,
\nand that he made use of all constitutional mechanisms in order to counter these
\nundemocratic forces. More on this after the news.<\/p>\n
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\nRomania that requesting Parliament’s confidence is the only way for the 2020
\nstate budget bill to be endorsed by December 31st. The PM also
\npromised that public sector salaries will be raised next year and presented a
\nnumber of economic decisions. Orban has also announced that the government has
\nfrozen allowances for senior civil servants, decided that public sector
\nsalaries and pensions can no longer be received concurrently by the same
\nindividual, and that subsidies for political parties have been cut by 30%.
\nOrban promised that infrastructure investments will be increased next year. On
\nMonday the Government is seeking a vote of confidence in Parliament for the
\nstate budget and social security budget bills, as well as for a bill amending
\nthe Government Emergency Order no. 114.<\/p>\n
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\nFriday as a witness by the Directorate Investigating Organised Crime and
\nTerrorism, in an investigation into the gendarme intervention during a protest
\nof the Romanian diaspora held on August 10, 2018. The hearings lasted six
\nhours, with Carmen Dan saying she did not have an active role of coordination
\nduring the protest. The investigation was taken over by the Directorate from
\nthe Military Prosecutor’s Office Division. Senior gendarme officers are being
\nprobed into. On August 10, tens of thousands of people, including Romanians
\nliving abroad, gathered outside the government building in central Bucharest to demand the resignation
\nof Viorica D\u0103ncil\u0103’s cabinet. People were disgruntled with the Social
\nDemocrats’ repeated attacks against the justice system, and with the dismissal
\nof the National Anti-Corruption Directorate chief Laura Codru\u021ba Kovesi.<\/p>\n
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\nRomania decided that the limit for foreign workers in 2020 stay at 30,000
\npeople, as it was in 2019, the PM’s chief of staff Ionel Danc\u0103 announced
\non Friday. The
\ndecision took into account Romania’s economic growth potential, the workforce demand in certain sectors or professions, which
\ncannot be covered by Romanian workers, as well as the need to prevent
\nsituations where foreigners work in Romania illegally. Romania is facing a
\nworkforce shortage as large numbers of its citizens have sought employment in
\nother EU member states. <\/p>\n