Strike.<\/strong>
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Compensation.<\/strong> The government is today adopting
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Cereals.
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Moldova.<\/strong> The Republic of Moldova will host
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NATO.<\/strong>
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Tennis.<\/strong>
A roundup of local and international news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":105208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-106689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsflash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nPresident Klaus Iohannis invited the leaders of the ruling coalition for talks
\ntoday on finding a solution to the teachers’ strike. Yesterday, he met a
\ndelegation of education trade unions and told them he was willing to broker a
\npolitical agreement signed by all ruling parties and containing the salary
\nscheme and clear application deadlines. The offer made by the government to pay
\nteachers a bonus of 4,000 lei was rejected, but trade union leaders say the
\npresident’s proposal could defuse the conflict. Meanwhile, the general strike
\nin the under-graduate education system entered its tenth day. Until a solution
\nis found, the education ministry has extended the period for registration to
\nthe baccalaureate exam until 9th June. <\/p>\n
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\nan emergency order on the payment of compensations to farmers affected by last
\nspring’s drought. The state aid scheme will apply to farmers who grew corn,
\nsun-flower, soy beans and peas and will come in the form of a grant given to
\nfarmers through the partial compensation of their expenses from planting until
\nharvesting. <\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>EU agriculture ministers meeting in the AGRIFISH council have not managed to
\nunblock 100 million euros worth of aid for farmers affected by Ukraine’s export
\nof cheap cereals. Romania is one of the five countries that may benefit from
\nthe aid and it stands to receive around 30 million euros. The European
\ncommissioner for agriculture Ianusz Wojciechowski gave assurances that the aid
\nwill be unblocked and the situation monitored. He said he was not in favour of
\nusing the EU budget to buy Ukrainian cereals and later supply them to the world
\nfood programme because the cost would be three times that of the cereals
\nthemselves. He believes the money would be better used, in the long term, to
\nimprove the infrastructure, for example that of Romania, and said he would have
\ntalks in this regard with the European commissioner for transport and
\ninfrastructure Adina V\u0103lean. <\/p>\n
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\ntomorrow the European Political Community Summit attended by 50 heads of state
\nand government. The European Commission is represented by its president Ursula
\nvon der Leyen and the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who are due to
\nmeet Moldovan officials today. The most important subjects on the agenda of the
\nsummit are security, stability and cooperation in Europe. Yesterday, the EU
\nCouncil decided to double the macro-financial aid for the Republic of Moldova
\nfrom 150 to 295 million euros. <\/p>\n
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\nNATO has deployed an additional contingent of around 700 soldiers after 30
\nmembers of the KFOR international peace force were wounded in recent clashes. The
\nnumber of KFOR troops in Kosovo thus stands at 4,500. The deployment is a
\nprecaution measure to ensure that KFOR has the needed capabilities to maintain
\nsecurity, said the Alliance. NATO deputy secretary general Mircea Geoana said
\nsuch attacks are totally unacceptable and emphasised that violence must stop
\nimmediately. The European Union called on both Serbia and the Republic of
\nKosovo, a state Romania is yet to recognise, to take immediate measures to reduce
\ntensions. 11 Italian and 19 Hungarian soldiers from the international peace
\nforces were wounded during clashes with Serb protesters demanding the removal
\nof ethnic Albanian mayors. <\/p>\n
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\nThe only Romanian tennis player still in competition at Roland Garros, Irina
\nBegu, is today facing Italy’s Sara Errani in the second round. On Tuesday, Sorana
\nCirstea was eliminated in the first round by Italy’s Jasmine Paolini. Also on
\nTuesday, the Canadian player of Romanian origin Bianca Andreescu defeated Victoria
\nAzarenka of Belarus in three sets. (CM)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"