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Halep. <\/strong>The Romanian tennis player Simona Halep, former
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\nRomania, Klaus Iohannis, welcomed the announcement made at the G7 Summit on
\nSaturday by the President of the United States, Joe Biden, regarding the
\nsupport of the USA and Japan, of the partners South Korea and the United Arab
\nEmirates of up to 275 million dollars for the Small Modular Reactor (SMR)
\nproject in Romania, as well as letters of interest from US EXIM and US
\nInternational Development Finance Corporation for additional support of up to 4
\nbillion dollars for project implementation. These initiatives represent an essential
\nsupport for Romania’s goal of standing in the forefront of the development of
\nthe revolutionary nuclear energy infrastructure, and the implementation of the
\nSMR project in partnership with the USA will allow the production of clean
\nenergy and increase energy security, the Romanian president stressed in a post on social networks. The G7 leaders
\nconfirmed, in Hiroshima, their commitment to identifying new opportunities to
\nexpand the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, an intitiative
\nof President Biden and the G7, in the field of infrastructure and which
\nprovides for the financing of the first small modular reactor plant in Romania
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\nPrime Minister, Nicolae Ciuc\u0103, has announced that he has convened a meeting
\nwith the education unions, on Sunday, at the Government headquarters. He has
\nstated that the solution for the education employees’ demands lies in the law on unitary wages. The prime
\nminister, who is also the leader of the National Liberal Party, a senior
\npartner in the ruling coalition, together with the Social Democratic Party, and
\nthe Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians, has also said that the Ministry of Labor has the full support of
\nthe coalition to implement the unitary wage law and the reform of special pensions,
\nin the shortest possible time. The prime minister’s statements come after the
\npresident of the Social Democratic Party and Speaker of the Chamber of
\nDeputies, Marcel Ciolacu, has announced that any negotiations regarding the
\nfuture Cabinet, which he is about to lead, must be suspended until the demands
\nof the unions are resolved, as well as the major backlog regarding
\nthe reform of special pensions. The education unions have announced that they
\nwill go on an all-out strike on Monday, May 22. Their claims are mainly salary
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\nthe Court of Justice of the European Union, Koen Lenaerts, believes that the
\nfile for the annulment of the decision to reject Romania’s accession to the
\nSchengen Area must be resolved quickly. I want to emphasize that Romania’s future is in Schengen. So the
\nreception of Romania and Bulgaria in the Schengen zone must happen in the very
\nnear future. Indeed, when you bring a member state like Romania, but this is
\nalso valid for all other members of the Schengen area, this means that the
\ninternal borders between the Schengen members are open and that there are no
\nmore checks when crossing the border. It also means that external borders
\nbecome a matter of common interest for all members of the Schengen area,
\nLenaerts said. Although it had met all the accession
\ncriteria, Romania was denied entry into Schengen last year, due to Austria’s
\nopposition. <\/p>\n
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\nSandu, a large demonstration will take place in Chisinau to show the citizens’
\nsupport for the European integration of their country. The event takes place in
\nthe context in which the Republic of Moldova (ex-Soviet, predominantly
\nRomanian-speaking), as a candidate country, would like to start accession
\nnegotiations by the end of this year. In order to move to this stage, the
\nRepublic of Moldova has to fulfill nine recommendations, which will be
\nevaluated by the fall in a European Commission report. The President of the
\nEuropean Parliament, Roberta Metsola, will also participate in the event in
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\nworld number one, faces a new case, related to ‘irregularities’ in the data of
\nher biological passport, the tennis anti-doping authority has announced.
\n Halep, the 2018 Roland Garros and 2019 Wimbledon champion, has been
\nprovisionally suspended since last October after testing positive for
\nroxadustat during the US Open in August 2022. In an interview with Tennis
\nMajors published in late April, the player cited a contamination of one of her
\ndietary supplements to explain the positive test. The new case, confirmed on
\nFriday by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA), is based on an
\nassessment of the profile of her biological passport by a group of independent
\nexperts. The biological passport makes it possible to monitor different blood
\nparameters over a long period of time. In a statement broadcast on Friday
\nevening, Simona Halep says that she is living the worst nightmare
\nof her life since the announcement of the suspension, on October 7, and denounces
\na form of harassment on the part of ITIA, which she accuses of
\ntrying to prove that she is guilty of something she has never done. (MI)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"