{"id":105083,"date":"2021-05-12T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/may-12-2021-update-105083.html"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:52:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:52:41","slug":"may-12-2021-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/may-12-2021-update-id105083.html","title":{"rendered":"May 12, 2021 UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COVID-19<\/strong> Romania stays in the so-called green scenario as Bucharest and all counties report COVID-19 infection rates below 1.5 per thousand. In the past 24 hours 930 new cases were reported, out of over 24,300 tests conducted acros the country. The Strategic Communication Group announced another 98 COVID-related deaths, which brings the total death toll to 29,233, and 874 patients in intensive care. The coordinator of the vaccine rollout Valeriu Gheorghi\u0163\u0103 said the fall in infection numbers is the result of the immunisation campaign. Over 3.7 million people have received at least one dose of vaccine, and 2.5 million have also got the booster dose. People may get jabs without prior appointment in all vaccination centres in the country. After Timi\u015foara (west) and the capital Bucharest, another major city, Craiova (south), is organising a vaccination marathon, with similar events scheduled this weekend in other cities in Romania.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>RECOVERY<\/strong> The PM of Romania Florin C\u00ee\u0163u reconfirmed, during his&#13;<br \/>\nmeeting with the European Commission vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis in&#13;<br \/>\nBrussels on Wednesday, the Romanian government&#8217;s goal to ensure economic&#13;<br \/>\nrecovery and sustainable post-pandemic economic growth, with a focus on reform&#13;<br \/>\nand investments.Florin C\u00ee\u0163u also voiced gratitude to the European&#13;<br \/>\nCommission for its support, guidance and cooperation, after the talks on&#13;<br \/>\nRomania&#8217;s priorities as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan held&#13;<br \/>\non Wednesday with Margrethe Vestager, EC executive vice-president. Previously,&#13;<br \/>\nthe Romanian PM had also had talks with Adina V\u0103lean, European Commissioner for&#13;<br \/>\nTransport.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PUBLIC MEDIA<\/strong> As of Tuesday night, Romania&#8217;s public radio and TV corporations have new interim directors. Parliament has appointed journalist Liviu Popescu as head of the Romanian public radio, while Ramona Saseanu has become interim director of the national TV. The two are to hold these positions for 6 months, until the appointment of new boards of directors for the two institutions. On Tuesday, Parliament rejected the annual reports submitted by the two institutions for the years 2017, 2018, 2019, which entailed the dismissal of the 2 boards of directors.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ECONOMY<\/strong> Romanias economy is expected to grow by 5.1% in 2021 and 4.9% next year, according to the spring economic forecast made public by the European Commission. The institution has upgraded its February estimates, when it forecast a 3.8% growth this year and 4% in 2022. Brussels also expects the unemployment rate in Romania to go up from 5% last year to 5.2% in 2021, but to drop to 4.8% in 2022. Inflation is also set to reach 2.9% this year, with a slight decrease to 2.7% predicted for next year. According to the same forecast, the budget deficit will drop from 9.2% of GDP last year to 8% of GDP this year and to 7.1% of GDP next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONFERENCE<\/strong> Strengthening Romanias Strategic Partnership with Poland underscores the special relationship and the firm commitment to contributing to regional security, the president of Romania Klaus Iohannis said in a message on Wednesday at an international conference devoted to the centennial of the Romania-Poland Defensive Alliance. The event was hosted by the Romanian Embassy in Poland. The head of the Romanian state mentioned that the Romanian-Polish Defensive Alliance signed in 1921 was the first regional collective security project and the first strategic partnership with Poland.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DIPLOMACY<\/strong> The Romanian foreign ministry confirmed that the Russian Federation declared the deputy military attach\u00e9 with the Romanian Embassy in Moscow, Alin Iliescu, a persona non grata, in retaliation to a similar measure taken by Romania on April 26 with respect to the Russian Embassys deputy military attach\u00e9 Aleksey Grishaev. Romanian authorities argued that the decision was prompted by Grishaevs activity, which came against the 1961 Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations. Many central and east-European ex-communist countries made similar decisions to expel Russian diplomats in the past few weeks. (<em>tr. A.M. 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