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Motion.<\/strong> The motion of
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Covid-19RO.<\/strong> Health-care units in
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Visit. <\/strong>The Romanian Minister of
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Energy.<\/strong> The Ministry of Energy in
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Diaspora.<\/strong> Starting today, the
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Sarkozy. <\/strong>The former French
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Football.<\/strong> The Romanian football
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\nno-confidence filed by the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the main opposition
\nparty in Romania, against the Government headed by the Liberal Florin Citu is being
\nread today in plenary parliament session. The document was signed by 157
\nSocial-Democratic MPs, who believe that the Prime Minister must be sacked, and
\nthe only solution to the current political, economic and social crisis in Roman
\nis early elections. USR-Plus, the Liberals’ governing partner until recently,
\nhas announced that it will vote the motion. The nationalists from the opposition
\nAlliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) have stated that they will vote the
\nmotion too, because the Citu Government lacks legitimacy and does not observe
\nthe Constitution. In turn, PM Florin Citu
\nhas announced that the National Liberal Party (PNL) has set up
\nnegotiating teams that will try to have the motion rejected and maintain the parliamentary
\nmajority. The debates on the motion will be held on October 5th. We recall that
\nthere is another motion in parliament filed against the current cabinet by
\nUSR-Plus and AUR. <\/p>\n
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\nRomania are looking for solutions to manage the large number of Sars-CoV-2 infections.
\nTwo hospitals in Bucharest have announced they have started discharging
\npatients that can get treatment at home and transferring those who need hospital
\ncare to other units, in order to become exclusively Covid-19 hospitals. The decision
\nwas made in order to increase the number of beds for Covid-19 patients, as an increasing
\nnumber of people infected get to the hospital in serious condition. 14 towns
\nand cities across the country have already exceeded the incidence of 6 per one
\nthousand inhabitants, including Bucharest, Cluj and Timisoara. More than 12
\nthousand new cases of infection have been reported today, as well as 176
\nrelated deaths in 24 hours. 1364 patients are in intensive care. <\/p>\n
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\nForeign Affairs, Bogdan Aurescu, is on a formal two-day visit to Spain, in the
\ncontext of celebrating 140 years of bilateral diplomatic relations. The program
\nof the visit includes political consultations with his Spanish counterpart, Jose Manuel Albares
\nBueno, and the launching of a bilingual
\nalbum dedicated to this anniversary. The two ministers will discuss ways of
\ndeveloping and deepening the bilateral relationship, raised in 2013 at the
\nlevel of Strategic Partnership, as well as the current European, regional,
\ninternational and security issues. Also, Bogdan Aurescu will inaugurate the
\nexhibition Archaeological Treasures from Romania. Dacian and Roman roots at
\nthe National Museum of Archeology in Madrid, an event held under the High
\nPatronage of the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, and of King Felipe VI of
\nSpain. The archeological exhibition is one of the most important organized
\noutside Romania.<\/p>\n
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\nBucharest is preparing a state aid scheme for small and medium-sized
\nenterprises, in the context of the energy price crisis. The scheme would be
\napplied as of November 18th. In another move, a parliamentary
\ninquiry commission has called to hearings representatives of the Romanian
\nEnergy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) to clarify the increases in electricity and
\nnatural gas bills in Romania. <\/p>\n
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\nParliament Palace in Bucharest is hosting the 6th RePatriot summit, devoted to
\nthe Romanian Diaspora, which will bring together, until October 3rd, more than
\n300 Romanians from around the world. A jubilee volume will be also launched on
\nthe occasion, and the visitors will be able to watch a new exhibition, titled Photogeographica,
\na quarter of a century. The Photogeographica project was born in the 1990s and
\nis the most important youth photography contest in Romania, an ample event that
\ncapitalizes on the Romanian natural and
\ncultural heritage. <\/p>\n
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\nConservative President Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty on Thursday of
\nillegally financing his 2012 election campaign and sentenced to one year in
\nprison. The verdict comes just seven months after he was convicted of corruption
\nand influence peddling. The Court of First Instance ruled that Sarkozy had
\nbenefited from a double-entry system created in order to circumvent the
\ncampaign spending limits imposed by the French law.<\/p>\n
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\nchampion, CFR Cluj (northwest), takes on tonight, on home turf, the Danes from Randers FC, in a new match part
\nof Group D of the newly created Europa Conference League. In the debut matches,
\nCFR was defeated, away from home, 0-1, by FK Jablonec, from the Czech Republic,
\nand Randers ended in a draw, 2-2 the match with the Dutch from AZ Alkmaar.
\nEliminated, successively, from the Champions League preliminaries and from the
\nEuropa League play-offs, CFR remained the only Romanian team in the current
\nedition of the European football cups. Three other Romanian representatives in
\nthe Conference League, FCSB, CSU Craiova (south) and Sepsi OSK Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe
\n(center) were eliminated in July, in the second preliminary round. (MI)<\/p>\n