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\nRomanian agriculture minister Petre Daea on Wednesday briefed his visiting
\nUkrainian counterpart Mykola Solskyi on a European Commission decision from 2nd
\nMay to introduce exceptional and temporary preventive measures on imports of a
\nlimited number of products from Ukraine. These involve wheat, maize, rapeseed
\nand sunflower seeds and are aimed at easing the logistical blockages involving
\nthese products in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. The new
\nEuropean Commission regulations will be in place in all member states until 5th
\nJune. The first meeting between the two ministers took place in Bucharest on 21st
\nApril. They agreed to hold weekly talks on the amounts of products leaving
\nUkraine for transit, to provide Romania with complete and accurate data. <\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>The employees of the Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture in
\nRomania today stopped receiving payment applications at the agency’s local and
\ncounty branches for one hour in protest against the fact that their salaries
\nare not in line with those at central level. Protesters say the Agency is one of
\nthe best performing public institutions managing European funds, but the only
\none whose salaries are not aligned at central level. Since it was first set up,
\nthe Agency has attracted over 2 billion euros per year for Romanian farmers.
\nUnless salaries are standardised, they threaten to suspend their activity for
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\nfrom public funds, and the difficulties on the market undermine the feasibility
\nof information and trust in the media, shows a Reporters without Borders
\nassessment of Romania, while noting that the Romanian media landscape is
\ndiverse and pluralistic and provides fertile ground for strong public interest
\ninvestigations. Romania is ranked 53rd out of 180 in a World Press
\nFreedom Index compiled by Reporters without Borders. <\/p>\n
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\nSerbia declared three-day mourning in memory of the victims of the massacre
\ncommitted yesterday at a school in Belgrade, where a 14-year-old schoolboy shot
\ndead eight children and the school’s security guard and wounded six other
\nclassmates and a teacher. The incident caused immense shock in Serbia, where,
\ndespite the large number of weapons owned by the population, gun incidents are
\nrare. In the wake of the massacre, president Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 announced a
\nnumber of measures, including lowering the age of criminal responsibility from
\n14 to 12 and tougher arms and ammunitions regulations. <\/p>\n
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\nRomanian defence minister Angel T\u00eelv\u0103r, who ended his working visit to the
\nneighbouring Republic of Moldova, had talks with his counterpart Anatolie
\nNosat\u00eei and president Maia Sandu about the collaboration between the two states
\nin the areas of security and defence. According to Radio Romania Chi\u015fin\u0103u, T\u00eelv\u0103r
\nunderlined that Romania firmly supports Moldova’s European course and stands by
\nit in reforming its army. In a statement from the Moldovan president’s office,
\nMaia Sandu said Romania remains a strategic partner in the consolidation of her
\ncountry’s defence and security capabilities. <\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>54% of Romanians do not support a possible union of Romania with the
\nneighbouring Republic of Moldova sometime in the future and only 34% are in
\nfavour, shows an opinion poll conducted by Avangarde. If a referendum were to
\nbe held tomorrow on the union with Moldova, 31% of respondents said they would
\nvote yes and 50% against. 31% said they did not believe Moldova should be
\nurgently accepted into NATO, 41% believe it should and 30% are opposed
\naltogether. In the event of a Russian military invasion of Moldova, 56% of
\nrespondents said they are opposed to Romania sending troops and only 29% are in
\nfavour of an intervention. The opinion poll entitled The unionist sentiment in
\nRomania – anticipating the future was conducted over the telephone between 26th
\nand 29th April on a nationally representative sample of 850 interviewees
\nand has a +\/-3.4% margin of error, with a confidence level of 95%. (CM)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"