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Green certificate<\/strong>. Romanian MPs on Monday started debating the bill that would
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School. <\/strong>The interim Minister of Education, Sorin Cimpeanu, has
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Automotive<\/strong>. In Romania, car registrations increased by 0.7% in the first ten
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Tennis.<\/strong> Romanian tennis player Jaqueline Cristian qualified, on Monday, for
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\nGovernment has decided to extend by another 30 days the state of alert across
\nthe country, as of Tuesday, November 9th. The measures taken
\npreviously stay in place, including the obligation to wear protective masks
\nboth indoors and outdoors, access to certain activities only based on the digital
\nCovid certificate and shorter working hours for shops. More than 4,200 new
\ncases of Covid-19 and 241 related deaths were reported on Monday. The number of
\ndaily infections seems to be going down, but so does the population’s interest
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\nmake the digital Covid certificate compulsory at the workplace. The document
\nwill be first analyzed by the expert committees and then voted on in the
\nChamber of Deputies. The bill was previously rejected in the Senate. It
\nstipulates that employees who refuse to present the Covid certificate at the
\nworkplace can have their labor contract suspended for up to 30 days, without
\npay. If they fail to present the certificate after this period, they can be
\nfired if they work in the public system and they can be either fired or have
\ntheir suspension period extended if they work in the private system. People who
\ndo not want to get vaccinated, will have to get tested regularly and pay the
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\nannounced that he proposed at Monday’s Government meeting to have the 60%
\nvaccination rate obligation lifted for the localities where the infection rate
\nis below 3 per one thousand inhabitants. The measure would be adopted at the
\nend of the week, by means of a decision issued by the National Emergency
\nSituations Committee and will take into account the epidemiological situation. In
\nRomania, pupils returned to school only in those units where at least 60% of
\nthe staff members are vaccinated. So, out of 3 million pupils, only 1.8 million
\ncan attend physical classes, and the others will keep on attending online
\nclasses. The Education Ministry has ordered verifications in schools to check
\nthe observance of the sanitary measures, and has announced that non-invasive
\ntests for pupils and teachers will be soon distributed, for them to get tested
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\nConsultations<\/strong>. The United States can count on Romania, said on Monday, in Washington, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bogdan Aurescu. In turn, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed that the United States and Romania are ‘robust allies in NATO’ and are working closely on many issues. The two had consultations during the two-day visit that the Romanian minister is making to the United States. The visit marks the official opening of the seventh meeting of the Romania-US Strategic Dialogue for the implementation of the Joint Declaration on the Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century between Romania and the United States, established in 2011. The consultations aimed to identify concrete ways to develop and deepen bilateral cooperation in the political, security, military and energy fields, strengthening economic cooperation, including the promotion of priority strategic interconnection projects for Romania – Rail2Sea \u200b\u200band Via Carpathia, as well as in the field of civil nuclear power. Recent security developments have been addressed, with a focus on the Black Sea region and security on NATO’s Eastern Flank, and coordination within NATO, including with regard to negotiations over the New Strategic Concept. A visa waiver for Romanians traveling to the United States and the COVID pandemic were also on the agenda of talks.<\/p>\n
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\nmonths of the year, compared to the same period in 2020, and electrified
\nvehicles recorded a jump of 94%, according to data centralized by the
\nAssociation of Manufacturers and Importers of Automobiles (APIA), published on
\nMonday. Electrified vehicles, both electric (100% and plug-in hybrids), as well
\nas the full hybrid ones (with electric propulsion without charging from an
\nexternal source) now have a market share of 12.8%. Gasoline cars still have the
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\nthe eighth finals of the WTA 250 tournament in Linz (Austria), with about
\n190,000 euro in prize money, after
\ndefeating Kamila Rahimova (Russia), in three sets. Cristian entered the main draw
\nfrom the position of lucky loser. Another Romanian, Simona Halep, the tournament’s
\nsecond seed, will face the Belarusian Aleksandra Sasnovici directly in the
\neighth round.<\/p>\n