ENERGY Romania will not be facing glitches in natural gas and
\nelectricity supplies, the state secretary with the Energy Ministry Dan Dr\u0103gan promised
\non Thursday. At the time, Romania has 80% of its natural gas storage facilities
\nfull, and hopefully the figure will be close to 90% in early November, he added.
\nThe official also called for solidarity between the authorities, producers and
\nconsumers, in line with the efforts made at EU level.<\/p>\n
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PRICE CAPS Diesel and petrol prices will
\ncontinue to be subsidised by roughly 10 eurocents until the end of the year, PM
\nNicolae Ciuc\u0103 announced on Thursday. He said the measure has already produced
\nvisible results over the past 3 months, and fuel prices have been stabilised
\nand even decreased. Moreover, the measure has yielded results throughout the
\nsupply chain, from providers to consumers. The PM added that on Saturday he
\nwould take part, alongside several other senior officials, including the
\npresident of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, in the opening of
\nthe natural gas interconnector between Greece and Bulgaria, in Sofia.<\/p>\n
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MONKEYPOX Romania is requesting support in managing a monkeypox
\noutbreak. The National Committee for Emergency Situations Thursday decided to
\nresort to the European civil protection mechanism for the medicines needed for
\napproximately 150 patients. Romania has so far confirmed 40 cases, and in
\nmid-September the country received from the European Commission 5,000 monkeypox
\nvaccine doses, to be administered to those who get into contact with infected
\npeople.<\/p>\n
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NATO NATO’s importance in countries’ national security has greatly
\nincreased in the eyes of the public from 14 European and North-American
\ncountries, according to a survey conducted by the German Marshall Fund made
\npublic on Thursday. The EU is also regarded as very important for the national
\nsecurity of countries in Europe. 78% of respondents said NATO is very important
\nfor their country’s security, as against only 67% last year. Respondents in
\ncountries near Russia and Ukraine place a particularly high value on NATO: 91%
\nof Poles, 88% of Romanians and 87% of Lithuanians, the report says. Also, 81%
\nof the European respondents said the EU is important for national security.<\/p>\n
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UKRAINE Russia’s president Vladimir Putin is to sign on Friday the
\ntreaties on the annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk,
\nZaporizhzhia and Kherson, the Kremlin announced. The leaders of the 4 breakaway
\nregions travelled to Moscow on Wednesday night for the ceremony, after the
\nillegal referendums organised by Russia and described by both Kyiv and Western
\ncapitals as a sham. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is
\nto hold an emergency meeting of top security and defence officials on Friday. The
\nUS announced plans, jointly with its allies and partners, to impose higher
\neconomic costs on Russia, while the European Commission proposed new sanctions. On the other hand, clashes continue to be reported in all the regions
\nwhere the referendums were held, and several Ukrainian localities are being
\nshelled. According to the Ukrainian defence ministry, the army focuses on
\nregaining control over the entire Donetsk region. (AMP)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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