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Vaccination.<\/strong> Romania
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Pandemic.<\/strong> Nearly 148
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Recovery Plan.<\/strong> President Klaus
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Diplomacy.<\/strong> The Romanian
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Moldova.<\/strong> The statement
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Car scrapping.<\/strong> The Rabla Clasic and Rabla Plus car scrapping programs, for the renewal of the Romanian
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Oscars<\/strong>.
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Tennis.<\/strong> Romanian tennis
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\nreceives, today, the largest batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, more than 725
\nthousand doses, the National Committee for the Coordination of Vaccination
\nActivities has announced. Also today, about 41 thousand doses of AstraZeneca
\nvaccines are expected to arrive. Since the beginning of the vaccination
\ncampaign, on December 27, 2020, almost 5 million doses of vaccine have been
\nadministered to more than 3 million people. Of these, about 1.8 million
\nreceived both doses. On the other hand, Bucharest still has 3.68 cases of
\nSARS-CoV-2 infection per thousand inhabitants. The counties of Ilfov (southeast)
\nand Cluj (northwest) have reported similar rates. The Strategic Communication
\nGroup announced just over 1,500 new cases of infection in 24 hours. 1,358
\npeople are hospitalized in Intensive Care and 127 people have died from Covid-19
\nin the same period. <\/p>\n
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\nmillion people have been infected with the new coronavirus in the world since
\nthe beginning of the pandemic – according to worldometers.info. More than 125
\nmillion people have recovered and 3.1 million have died from the infection.
\nMore and more European countries are easing restrictions as vaccination
\nprograms begin to show results. In Italy, 14 regions have today entered the yellow
\nscenario, which allows the reopening of restaurants, theaters and cinemas. Only
\nSardinia remains in the red zone, with the most severe anti-COVID restrictions
\nstill in place. In Belgium, beauty shops and stores are allowed to open. In
\nFrance, schools will be reopened as of next week. In Berlin, a so-called
\nvaccination summit is scheduled between the state leadership and the federal
\ngovernment, to discuss the suspension or partial lifting of restrictions. Greece
\nis today lifting quarantine restrictions for tourists coming from several
\ncountries as Greek authorities prepare for the official opening of the summer
\nseasons on May 15. <\/p>\n
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\nIohannis has a working meeting today in Bucharest on the National Recovery and
\nResilience Plan (PNRR) with Prime Minister Florin C\u00ee\u0163u, Chamber of Deputies
\nPresident Ludovic Orban, Deputy Prime Ministers Dan Barna and Kelemen Hunor and
\nthe Minister of Investments and European Projects, Cristian Ghinea, the
\nPresidential Administration has announced. Last week, the head of state
\nannounced that he had convened this meeting with government officials working on
\nthe Plan. The government is due to make some changes to the plan, before
\nofficially presenting it to the European Commission, after the EU executive
\nsaid that the amounts provided for infrastructure were too high and that it
\nwould not agree with the financing of irrigation systems. The head of state
\nbelieves that the document can be improved and accepted by the European
\nCommission. The document should be submitted to the EC by the end of April, for Romania to
\nbenefit from over 30 billion Euros for development. President Iohannis has specified
\nthat the deadline set for the completion of the plan is indicative, not final. According
\nto the opposition Social Democratic Party, the rejection of the document is a
\nfailure of the current government. The party’s president, Marcel Ciolacu,
\ninsists that the National Recovery and Resilience Plan be debated transparently
\nin Parliament.<\/p>\n
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\nauthorities have decided to declare the deputy military attach\u00e9 of the Russian
\nEmbassy in Bucharest, Alexey Grishaev, persona non grata on Romanian territory.
\nAccording to a communiqu\u00e9 of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
\ndecision was taken considering that his activities and actions contravene
\nthe provisions of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations .
\nAlso according to the Romanian MFA, these elements were communicated to the
\nRussian side, when the Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Bucharest Valery
\nKuzmin was summoned at the ministry’s headquarters, at the request of the Romanian
\nForeign Minister Bogdan Aurescu. <\/p>\n
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\napproved on Friday in the Chisinau Parliament, according to which the
\nConstitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova allegedly ‘usurps’ power in the
\nstate, shows contempt for the Court’s independence, said Romanian Foreign
\nMinister Bogdan Aurescu. He criticized the attempt of the pro-Russian majority
\nin the Parliament to change the composition of the Constitutional Court, an
\napproach which, he said, shows the importance that must continue to be given to
\nthe rule of law in the Republic of Moldova. The action of the Socialists and their
\nallies from the Shor party comes after the reformist president of the republic,
\nMaia Sandu, announced that she would soon sign the decree to dissolve the parliament,
\nfollowing the Court’s opinion and would announce the date of the early
\nparliamentary elections. EU officials and the US ambassador to Chisinau
\ndescribed Friday’s vote as a violation of the separation of powers in the
\nstate. <\/p>\n
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\ncar fleet, can be accessed starting today. Rabla Clasic has a budget of 440
\nmillion lei (about 88 million euros), higher than last year, which will allow
\nthe purchase of over 55,000 new, less polluting vehicles. At the same time, the
\nRabla Plus program, intended for the purchase of electric cars, benefits from a
\nbudget of 400 million lei (approximately 80 million euros), through which
\npremiums of 10,000 euros will be granted for ‘full electric’ and about 4,500
\neuro for plug-in hybrid cars, but not more than half the value of the new
\nvehicle. Based on the budget allocated this year, Rabla Plus will facilitate
\nthe purchase of up to 6,600 electric cars and approximately 5,000 plug-in
\nhybrid cars.<\/p>\n
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\n‘Nomadland’ was the big winner of the 93rd Academy Awards, winning the
\n‘Best Picture’, ‘Best Director’ (Chloe Zhao) and ‘Best Best Supporting Actress’
\n(Frances McDormand) awards. The event, held on Sunday night in Los Angeles,
\nhosted numerous firsts, as well as the return to the physical format of the glamorous
\nceremonies in Hollywood after a long break caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters
\nreports. The list of big winners was completed by the legendary Anthony
\nHopkins, who at the age of 83 won the second Oscar of his career for the lead
\nrole in The Father. The award for Best Documentary was
\nwon by the feature film My Octopus Teacher and the Oscar for Best
\nForeign Language Film went to the Danish film Another Round. The film
\ndirected by Alexandru Nanau, Collective, did not win any awards but it is the
\nfirst Romanian production to have been nominated in two categories of the
\nprestigious competition: best documentary and best foreign
\nfilm. <\/p>\n
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\nplayer Sorana Cirstea (No. 67 in the world) won the WTA tournament in Istanbul,
\nwith 235,238 dollars in prize money. She defeated the Belgian Elise Mertens
\n6-2, 7-6 in Sunday’s final. In addition to the two titles won in Tashkent
\n(2008) and Istanbul (2021), Sorana Cirstea also played in three singles finals,
\nin Budapest (2007), Toronto (2013) and Tashkent (2019). Last year, the title in
\nIstanbul was won by another Romanian, Patricia \u0162ig. (MI)<\/p>\n
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