NATO. President Klaus Iohannis and
\nprime minister Nicolae Ciuc\u0103 are today visiting the 57th Air Base in
\nMihail Kog\u0103lniceanu, in the south-east. According to the government website,
\njoining them are defence minister Vasile D\u00eencu and the Chief of Defence Staff,
\nGeneral Daniel Petrescu, as well as the French defence minister Florence Parly,
\nwho is meeting the French troops deployed by her country to Romania. The French
\nbattalion is the first land element of the NATO Response Force to arrive in Romania
\nas part of the measures adopted by NATO to consolidate the defence of its
\neastern flank following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They joined American,
\nItalian and German military already stationed here. <\/p>\n
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Moldova.
\nThe prime minister of the Republic of Moldova Natalia
\nGavrili\u0163a has urged the United States for additional humanitarian assistance to
\nher country to help it cope with the influx of refugees from Ukraine. She told
\nvisiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that 120,000 of the 230,000
\npeople who have crossed the border into Moldova from Ukraine have stayed, which
\nis a very large number for a small country of 2.6 million like Moldova. Blinken
\npromised full support from the United States and said he admired the
\ngenerosity, the hospitality and the willingness shown by Moldovans. During his
\ntrip to Poland on Saturday, Blinken said the Biden administration asked
\nCongress to approve humanitarian support of 2.75 billion dollars for the
\nrefugees and the neighbouring countries where they are fleeing, Romania,
\nMoldova, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. <\/p>\n
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Refugees.
\nMore
\nthan 1.5 million refugees from Ukraine have crossed into neighbouring countries
\nin 10 days – the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II,
\nthe UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo
\nGrandi said on Twitter. Poland has seen the highest influx of refugees. The
\nWorld Health Organisation has decried Russia’s repeated attacks on medical
\nfacilities in Ukraine, which is in breach of the principle of medical
\nneutrality and international humanitarian law. <\/p>\n
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Covid-19.
\nRomania reported some 3,000 new Covid infections in the past 24 hours, as well
\nas 30 related fatalities, including one from an earlier date. Romanian
\npresident Klaus Iohannis said on Friday that Romania will not extend the state
\nof epidemiological alert beyond 8th March. Since the start of the pandemic, Romania has recorded over 2.7 million
\nCovid cases and over 63 thousand deaths. Romania has the second lowest
\nvaccination rate in the European Union, after Bulgaria. <\/p>\n
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Education.
\nMore than 50 Romanian and foreign education institutions are presenting their
\neducation programmes at an education fair held today in Constan\u0163a, in the south-east, and which opened on Saturday in Bucharest.
\nAccording to organisers, the favourite study destinations for young Romanians
\nare The Netherlands, followed by the UK, Italy, Denmark, Germany and Spain,
\nwhile the top areas of study are IT, engineering, European studies, economics,
\nadvertising, aerospace engineering and law. The fair is also addressed to
\nsecondary school and high school pupils, with demand for this area seeing a 20%
\nboost during the pandemic. The favourite destinations for pre-university
\neducation are the UK, Switzerland, Germany and Spain. <\/p>\n
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Eurovision.
\nThe singer WRS is representing Romania at this year’s
\nEurovision Song Contest with a song called Llamame. He won the national
\ncompetition held by the public TV station in Bucharest. Eurovision 2022 will be
\nhosted by Turin, in Italy, with the semifinals taking place on 10th
\nand 12th May and the final on the 14th. Romania’s best
\nEurovision performance was the third place twice, in 2005 in Kyiv and in 2010
\nin Oslo. The TV show to choose Romania’s entry also featured the Ukrainian
\nsinger Jamala, who won the 2016 edition and who is now a refugee. The European
\nBroadcasting Union has announced that no Russian act will participate in this
\nyear’s Eurovision Song Contest. Moldova’s entry this year is a song from the band
\nZdob \u015fi Zdub about the train from Bucharest to Chi\u015fin\u0103u, the capital of the
\nmajority Romanian-speaking Republic of Moldova, a metaphor for the shared
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