ENERGY On February 1st the government in Bucharest is
\nexpected to endorse new measures aimed at capping electricity and gas prices.
\nThe aforementioned measures will be promoted through an emergency ordinance to
\nbe passed the next week at the latest. Romania’s Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca has
\ntoday held talks with energy suppliers who, according to government sources,
\nhave agreed with the newly announced measures for subsidizing and capping
\nenergy prices, pledging to rectify the bills initially issued. The head of the
\nExecutive on Monday announced that following an agreement of the ruling
\ncoalition made up of PNL, PSD and UDMR prices in gas and electricity would be
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COVID-19 Authorities in Romania have today announced 16,760 new Covid
\ninfections, double the number of yesterday as well as 70 related fatalities. Bucharest
\nhas today reached an infection rate of 6.15 cases per thousand and has been in
\nthe red tier since January 12th. With 8 million people vaccinated
\nRomania still is the last but one in an EU ranking. Bulgaria is the country
\nwith the lowest number of immunized people in the bloc. <\/p>\n
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TENNIS 14th-seeded tennis player Simona Halep has qualified for
\nthe second round of Australian Open, the year’s first Grand Slam tournament
\nafter a two-set win 6-4, 6-3 against Magdalena Frech of Poland. A former top
\nseed, Halep took one hour and 29 minutes to obtain the victory against the
\nPolish challenger. Five Romanian women players out of six have qualified for
\nthe tournament’s second round. They are Simona Halep, Sorana Cirstea, Irina
\nBegu, Gabriela Ruse and Jaqueline Cristian. From the Romanian delegation only
\nIrina Bara was eliminated in the competition’s first round. <\/p>\n
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EUMaltese center-right MEP
\nRoberta Metsola was elected president of the European Parliament on Tuesday. Metsola,
\nwho won 458 votes out of the total 616, had an absolute majority avoiding the
\nneed for a second round of voting. A member of the European People’s Party,
\nMetsola succeeds Italian Social Democrat David Sassoli who died last week at
\nthe age of 65. Sassoli was a politician and journalist very appreciated in
\nItaly, a supporter of the EU, who firmly campaigned for human rights observance
\naround the world, this is how Romanian MEP Eugen Tomac has described him. A
\nvehement critic of the abuses committed by Russian president Vladimir Putin, in
\n2021 Sassoli got interdiction to enter Russia in response to the EU sanctions
\nimposed to some Russian officials. Sassoli was also a supporter of the EU
\nintegration efforts of the ex-soviet, Romanian-speaking republic of Moldova. <\/p>\n
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