LONDON Thousands of street parties are
\ngoing to take place today in Britain to mark the coronation of King Charles
\nlll. The country’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was among those hosting a
\ncoronation lunch with the guests including Ukrainian families, youth groups and
\nUS first lady Jill Biden. Churches and local communities are going to stage events
\ndevoted to this occasion in public gardens and parks. A special concert to be
\nheld at Windsor Castle will bring together artists like Lionel Richie, Katy
\nPerry or the band Take That. Thousands of public buildings will see lasers and light
\nprojections to celebrate the coronation tonight. King Charles and Queen Camilla
\nhave conveyed a message of gratitude for the support shown by the Britons
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ORDINANCE An emergency ordinance on curbing public spending is to be endorsed
\nby the government in Bucharest this week after being assessed by the ruling
\ncoalition, Romania’s Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca has announced. Finance
\nMinister Adrian C\u00e2ciu is expected to present today the coalition leaders with
\nthe concrete measures on cutting budget expenses, which also include hiring
\nfreeze in state institutions after May 15th. In another development,
\nthe head of the Executive says that no increased taxes will be levied on private
\nsector employees. And the same public message was delivered by the leader of
\nthe co-ruling PSD, Marcel Ciolacu who added that he doesn’t give up on the
\nmeasure of cutting special pensions. The law will be subjected to public
\ndebates and be approved by the Executive later on. <\/p>\n
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CYBERSECURITY As of this week Bucharest will be hosting the headquarters of a
\nmajor EU agency, the European Centre for Cyber Security, which is to protect
\nthe economy and population from cyber attacks, support research in this field
\nand help European enterprises to develop their cyber-security capabilities. The
\naforementioned agency will be cooperating with a network of national centers in
\nthe EU countries. Romania’s Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca and Roberto Viola, Director-General
\nof the European Commission’s Department for Communications Networks, will be
\nattending the inauguration event. In December 2020, EU representatives chose Romania
\nto host the aforementioned center among the other applicants like Belgium,
\nGermany, Spain, Luxembourg, Poland and Lithuania. Bucharest’s trump cards
\nincluded the high-speed Internet it uses, the centre’s exemption from various
\ntaxes and duties and the fact that this city hadn’t hosted any European agency
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SUBSIDIES
\nRomania’s Agriculture
\nMinister Petre Daea says that the greengrocers who are still using toxic
\nsubstances will have their subsidies cut. The statement came upon an
\ninvestigation which proved that many farmers put on sale vegetables, which had
\nbeen sprinkled with toxic substances with a concentration up to 8 times higher than
\nthe limit approved. The minister says the authorities will be monitoring the
\nfarmers benefitting from support through national programmes for the greenhouse
\ncultivation of vegetables so that no more non-compliant vegetables may reach
\nthe market. The police have conducted many searches in the counties of Buzau
\nand Ilfov, in southern Romania, where they found hundreds of containers with
\nchemical substances from Turkey whose concentrations proved to be higher than
\nthose admitted by the EU legislation. The greengrocers used these substances to
\nripen vegetables faster and sell them on the market for higher prices. According
\nto police sources, in some cases these toxic vegetables were sold as organic products.
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