VOTE The Social Democrats (PSD), the party with the largest
\nnumber of seats in the Romanian Parliament didn’t set a timetable, as was expected
\non Friday, for the voting session over a censure motion the PSD tabled against
\nthe Liberal cabinet led by Ludovic Orban. According to the PSD spokesman Lucian
\nRomascanu, talks are being held with all the Parliament groups and a date for
\nvoting the document is to be set most likely on Tuesday. The PSD official said
\na decision in this respect would be made next week by the new Executive
\nCommittee endorsed during the PSD congress on Saturday. ‘We’d like the voting
\nto start as soon as possible Romascanu went on to say. The motion was read
\nbefore the Legislature on Thursday and it blames the executive for the way it
\nhandled the medical crisis caused by the novel coronavirus. In another
\ndevelopment, the National Liberal Party PNL on Friday notified the
\nConstitutional Court over an alleged legal conflict of a constitutional nature
\nbetween the government and Parliament, as the PSD tabled their motion during
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FUNDING In a first for Romania, the
\nEuropean Commission has approved the total EU funding of investments in the
\ncountry’s transport infrastructure and not only 85% as before. According to the
\nTransport Ministry in Bucharest, the move, which is temporary, was justified by
\nthe impact the Covid-19 pandemic had over the state budget. The most important
\ninvestments with European funds to benefit from this temporary exemption are
\ntwo motorway sections and a railway. In another development, the European
\nCommission has approved a five billion euro loan for supporting the business
\nenvironment and jobs in Romania. The announcement has been made by the
\ncountry’s Prime Minister Ludovic Orban who’s said the money is used to fund
\nactive measures such as flexible timetables, technical unemployment and cover other
\nexpenses aimed at supporting the employees and companies. Orban said the loan
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MOSCOW A medically equipped plane landed in
\nthe Siberian city of Omsk to take the leading opposition figure Alexei Navalny,
\nwho supporters believe was poisoned, to a hospital in Berlin. According to the
\nRussian doctors, Navalny is too ill to be moved to Germany for treatment. A
\nprominent critic of president Putin, Navalny has consistently exposed official
\ncorruption in Russia and has served many prison terms. According to his
\nspokeswoman, Navalny faced another poisoning attempt while in police custody
\nlast year. Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitri Peskov says that if the poisoning is
\nconfirmed the authorities are to start an investigation. <\/p>\n
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\nTecau and the Dutch Jean-Julien Rojer are playing against the French pair
\nJeremy Chardy\/Fabrice Martin in the first round of the ATP Masters 1000 doubles
\ntournament in Cincinnati which offers total prizes worth more than 4.2 million
\ndollars. The tournament is hosted this year by Flushing Meadows Corona-Park in
\nNew York. Tecau and Rojer last year lost in the first round of the Cincinnati tournament
\nto the pair Feliciano Lopez (Spain)\/Andy Murray (Great Britain). The Romanian -
\nDutch pair won a final in Cincinnati in 2016 when they defeated the pair Ivan
\nDodig (Croatia)\/Marcelo Melo (Brazil) 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 10-6. Tecau got a title
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