CAMPAIGN According to the head of the National
\nCommittee coordinating Romania’s vaccination operations, physician Valeriu
\nGheorghita, only two months into the anti-Covid vaccination campaign, its
\nbeneficial results are visible. According to official data, roughly 90% of the
\neligible medical personnel have got the first dose and the booster, while 98%
\nof them got the first dose. Since the campaign kicked off on December 27th,
\nnearly 716 thousand people have been immunized. 1.2 million doses have been
\nused mostly produced by Pfizer\/BioNTech giant, but also by Moderna and
\nAstraZeneca. In another development, since the onset of the pandemic, 766
\nthousand infections have been registered in Romania with a death toll over
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PROTESTS Trade unionists from the capital and other major Romanian cities are
\nmounting fresh protests in front of the government building in Bucharest.
\nSeveral trade union associations from police, public administration, social
\nassistance and finances are taking to the streets of Bucharest to protest the
\nausterity measures imposed by the ruling coalition, which they believe is going
\nto prolong the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. On Tuesday, hundreds of
\npolicemen from Bucharest and other Romanian cities protested in front of the government
\nbuilding. Employers and employees from Romania’s hospitality industry and the
\ncountry’s railway system have also protested the government’s austerity
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BRANCUSI The Romanian Cultural Institute is these days staging in Bucharest,
\nBrussels, Chisinau, Lisbon, London, Madrid and Paris online events devoted to
\nthe personality of Romania’s greatest sculptor Constantin Brancusi as we
\ncelebrated his 145th birthday on 19th of February. A
\nspecial concert is to be given on his birthday with illustrations from his
\nworks provided by Romania’s National Art Museum. A pioneer of modern abstract
\nsculpture with exquisite works in marble, bronze and wood often of traditional
\ninspiration, Brancusi is considered one of the main sculptors of the 20th
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NATO Defence Ministers from NATO countries are having online talks on
\nWednesday and Thursday over the future of this alliance in Afghanistan, where
\nroughly 10 thousand of its servicemen have been deployed. NATO secretary
\ngeneral Jens Stoltenberg is expected to ask for additional funds for various
\njoint defence and deterrence operations. According to him these funds will
\nenable the deployment of troops to the eastern flank, air police missions as
\nwell as joint naval and military operations. Furthermore, the move is expected
\nto balance costs among the member countries, Stoltenberg went on to say. If the
\nproposals are rallying support from the ministers attending the event, they
\ncould be adopted by the leaders of NATO countries during the summit this year. <\/p>\n
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MOTION Romanian MPs on Wednesday rejected the first simple motion this year in
\nwhich the opposition PSD was calling for the resignation of the country’s
\nHealth Minister Vlad Voiculescu whom they blame for his inability to properly
\nhandle the anti-Covid vaccination and testing campaign and take the right
\nmeasures to prevent fires in some medical units. Another party in opposition,
\nAUR, backed the motion, which was debated upon on Monday when Voiculescu
\npointed out that the real author of the disaster in Romania’s healthcare system
\nin the past 30 years was the Social Democratic Party. According to regulations,
\na simple motion against a minister even if passed, does not necessarily imply
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