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EU. <\/strong>Romania’s
\npresident Klaus Iohannis is attending a special meeting of the European Council
\nheld in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday. High on the agenda are the EU
\ncoordination to tackle the Covid pandemic, fighting climate change, and the
\nEU’s relation with Russia and the UK. With regard to the pandemic, the Romanian
\npresident stands for close coordination among member states and for the rapid
\nimplementation of the digital green certificates at the EU level on condition
\nthey do not hinder free movement. Regarding the climate change issue, Iohannis
\nis expected to plead for the setting up of a flexible legal framework to allow member
\nstates to identify the best solutions for meeting the target of 55% cut in
\ngreenhouse gases by 2030.<\/p>\n

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Belarus plane.<\/strong>
\nThe Foreign Ministry in Bucharest has voiced deep concern regarding the
\nunacceptable decision by the authorities in Belarus to force a passenger plane
\nflying from Athens to Vilnius to land in Minsk. The Romanian Foreign Ministry
\nviews the incident as very serious and calls for an independent international
\ninvestigation to determine the exact circumstances in which it occurred. The
\nRomanian authorities say they received no request for consular assistance from
\na Romanian citizen in connection to this incident. Belarus and
\nLatvia on Monday expelled each other’s ambassadors and entire embassy staff. <\/span><\/p>\n

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COVID-19.<\/strong> The
\nnumber of new coronavirus cases is on a downward trend in Romania. Some 230 new
\ninfections were recorded on Monday, the lowest number since the beginning of
\nJune last year. 36 related fatalities were also reported, and 580 Covid
\npatients are still in intensive care. More and more hospitals around the
\ncountry have been reorganising their activity following the decreasing number
\nof Covid patients. The vaccine roll-out continues across the country. 7.3
\nmillion doses have been administered in this country to over 4 million people
\nsince the start of mass vaccination in December last year, with almost 3.2
\nmillion people being fully vaccinated. <\/p>\n

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Schools.<\/strong> The
\nRomanian Education Minister Sorin Cimpeanu has announced the national exams are
\nto be held as scheduled and will be taken in person. There will be two sessions
\nhosting the National Evaluation Exam and the Baccalaureate. In August schools
\nwill be able to stage more classes to catch up with lost learning. Teachers are
\nencouraged to stage summer camps and other activities in a bid to improve the
\nstudents’ education. We recall that last week all pupils in Bucharest and other
\nregions where the infection rate dropped under 1 per 1,000 inhabitants resumed
\nin-person learning, accounting for 93% of Romania’s 3 million pupils.<\/p>\n

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Hero.
\n<\/strong>In his opening remarks of the general assembly of the World Health
\nOrganisation, the director of this organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
\npraised the sacrifice shown by the Romanian doctor C\u0103t\u0103lin Denciu and said he
\nwould be honoured with an award for his courage. 48-year-old Denciu was on duty
\nat a hospital in Piatra Neam\u0163, in north-eastern Romania, in November last year,
\nwhen a fire broke out. Ten patients were killed and Denciu suffered third
\ndegree burns on 40% of his body trying to save others. <\/p>\n


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Economy.<\/strong> It’s a decisive week for Romania’s
\nnational recovery and resilience plan before being submitted to the European
\nCommission and so that Romania could access the almost 30 billion euros worth
\nof development funds it is eligible for. The final version of the document,
\nincluding all implementation details, must be finalised by the end of the
\nmonth, but the main opposition party, the Social Democratic Party, insists the
\ngovernment must present the plan in Parliament. Otherwise they threaten not to
\nvote for a European treaty that increases the spending of member states to the
\nEU budget and which needs to be voted by two thirds of Romanian MPs in order to
\npass. <\/p>\n

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Middle East.<\/strong> US Secretary of State
\nAntony Blinken on Monday left Washington for a 4-day trip to Jerusalem,
\nRamallah, Cairo and Amman. After Friday’s ceasefire between Israel and the
\nIslamist movement Hamas after ten days of bombardments and rockets being fired,
\nUS president Joe Biden and secretary Blinken said the two-state solution is the
\nonly possible solution. On the first leg of his tour, Blinken will meet Israeli
\npresident Reuven Rivlin prime minister Benjamin
\nNetanyahu and foreign minister Gabi Ashkenazi. In Ramallah, in the West Bank,
\nBlinken will have talks with the president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud
\nAbbas and prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh. He will not meet, however, the Gaza
\nStrip leaders, because the US views Hamas as a terrorist organisation and does
\nnot have direct contacts with its leaders. Blinken will next travel to Cairo
\nfor talks with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sissi and foreign minister
\nSameh Shoukri, who were involved in the mediation that led to the ceasefire between
\nIsrael and Hamas. On the last of his trip to the region, in Amman, Blinken will
\nbe received by Jordanian king Abdullah II and his counterpart Ayman Safadi,
\nwith Jordan being, together with Egypt, one of the few Arab states to have
\nlong-standing diplomatic relations with Israel. (CM)<\/p>\n


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