CORONAVIRUS The government Friday passed a resolution making
\nthe green certificate, attesting vaccination, negative testing or recovery from
\nCOVID-19, compulsory upon entering
\nrestaurants, gyms, or attending public and private events in areas where the infection rate is over 3 per
\nthousand. This is the same digital certificate required this summer for travel
\nwithin the EU. On Friday, authorities announced 4,478 new cases of COVID-19
\ninfection in 24 hours, from over 46,000 tests.
\nIn the same interval, 73 related fatalities were also reported and 762
\npatients treated in intensive care. Bucharest exceeded, on Friday, the
\nthreshold of 2 per thousand inhabitants cumulated in 14 days, which brings the
\ncapital city in the yellow zone. Meanwhile, on Thursday the National Committee
\non Emergency Situations approved a new list of high-risk countries, valid as of
\nSeptember 19. Bulgaria and France are now back in the yellow zone, and Spain is
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CONNECTING EUROPE Romania needs to step up investments in the rail
\ninfrastructure, the European Commissioner for Transport Adina V\u0103lean said on
\nFriday. Attending the arrival in Bucharest’s main railway station of Connecting
\nEurope Express, a special train designed in the European Year of Rail, she
\nexplained that Romania must plan its investments well, come up to solid
\nprojects and manage these investments as efficiently as possible. I am aware of
\nthe situation of railways in Romania and I undertake to do everything in my
\npower to help finance and develop it, the interim transport minister Dan V\u00eelceanu
\nsaid in his turn. Connecting Europe Express will stop in stations in 26
\ncountries during its five-week, 20,000-km journey, before arriving in Paris on
\nOctober 7. The train departed from Lisbon and, before reaching Paris, it will
\nstop in Ljubljana, connecting the Portuguese, Slovenian and French presidencies
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VISIT The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, will be in
\nBucharest on September 27, the EC deputy spokesperson Dana Spinant announced on
\nFriday. She added that in the coming days the Commission will complete its
\nassessment of Romania’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan. Under the Plan,
\nBucharest is set to receive over 29 billion euro, half of it in grants and half
\nin loans. Romania plans reforms and investments in transports, environment,
\nagriculture, healthcare, education, business environment, research, innovation,
\ndigitisation as well as resilience in crisis situations. According to the
\nCommission, 18 states have already seen their national recovery plans approved,
\nand 12 of them have already received the first instalments of the funds for
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COURT Romania’s Constitutional Court will discuss on September 28 the notification filed by the Liberal Prime
\nMinister Florin C\u00ee\u0163u’s Cabinet, in connection with an alleged constitutional
\nconflict with Parliament concerning the no-confidence motion filed by the
\nUSR-PLUS alliance, a former junior coalition partner, and AUR, a nationalist
\nparty, in the opposition. The Government denounced Parliament’s alleged
\nunconstitutional, disloyal and abusive behaviour towards the Government, as the
\nno-confidence motion tabled by the latter had allegedly been initiated, tabled
\nand communicated in terms that are against the Constitution. Pending the Court’s ruling, the debate and
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\nbiggest new media art event in Romania will be held on Saturday. iMapp
\nBucharest – Winners league is also among the top three international video
\nmapping competitions. The works of teams from the US, Germany, Ukraine, Japan
\nand Hungary will be presented on the world’s biggest screening area, namely,
\nthe fa\u00e7ade of the Parliament Palace in Bucharest, of 23,000 sqm. The theme of
\nthis year’s edition is The Show Must Go On and celebrates through works that
\nblend light, technology and music, the way in which people have been returning
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NATO Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant-General Daniel
\nPetrescu is taking part over September 17-19 in the conference of the NATO
\nMilitary Committee, which brings together in Athens, Greece heads of military
\nfrom Allied countries. Talks will tackle NATO operations, missions and
\nactivities. Additionally, the conference will also address means of
\nimplementing the Deterrence and Defence of the Euro-Atlantic Area, and NATO’s
\nWarfighting Capstone Concept. According to the Romanian Defence Ministry, the
\nMilitary Committee will analyze the NATO 2030 initiative and all its military
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