Strikes.
\n10,000 teachers have resumed classes, although over half of teachers continue
\nthe strike action, said education minister Ligia Deca, while trade unions contradicted
\nher, saying the authorities were mistaken and that some 87% of teachers and
\nauxiliary staff are still on strike. Minister Ligia Deca said there were no
\nplans yet for rescheduling exams or extending the school year. In the meantime,
\ntrade unions and the representatives of the education ministry met on Wednesday
\nto discuss the collective bargaining contract. Health care workers went on a token strike
\non Wednesday. They carried armbands in sign of protest, but did not stop
\nworking, said the Sanitas trade union federation. Protesters demand the
\napplication of the salary law to all categories of employees and the granting
\nof basic salaries according to the scheme included in the law. They also want a
\nchange in the way in which bonuses, extra hours and meal allowances are
\ncalculated. A draft emergency order published on the labour ministry website
\nprovides for the elimination of salary gaps between different categories of
\nemployees. The same provision will apply to social workers and the employees of
\ndefence, public order and national security. According to the initiators of the
\ndraft order, the measure has an insignificant budget impact and will not disrupt
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B9. Russia
\nremains the biggest threat to European and Euro-Atlantic security, said the
\npresident of Romania Klaus Iohannis at
\nthe Bucharest Nine Summit hosted by Bratislava. He called for the consolidation
\nof national defence and underlined the need to create a consistent, united,
\nreliable and robust Forward Defence structure on NATO’s eastern flank. He added
\nthat as a NATO and EU member state with the longest border with Ukraine,
\nRomania will stand by its neighbour as long as necessary and reiterated his
\ncountry’s support for Ukraine’s prospects for Euro-Atlantic integration. Klaus
\nIohannis and the other leaders of the Bucharest Nine, an organisation founded
\nin 2015 at the initiative of the Romanian and Polish presidents, firmly condemned
\nRussia’s brutal, unjustified and illegal war against Ukraine and called on
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Exercise. The coast
\nguard headquarters in the Black Sea port city of Constan\u0163a on Wednesday hosted the
\nVALHALA 23 exercise designed to test the capacity of the relevant structures to
\nmanage high flows of refugees on the border. Specific activities were
\nconducted, such as health screenings, body-searches, identification of
\nvulnerable people, border inspections, finger-printing, and registration of
\nasylum applications. Taking part in the
\nexercise were staff and equipment from the General Border Police Inspectorate,
\nthe Coast Guard, the General Inspectorate for Immigration, the General
\nInspectorate for Emergency Situations, the General Inspectorate of the Romanian
\nGendermerie, the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police and the Public
\nHealth Directorate. <\/p>\n
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Theatre. The
\nSibiu International Theatre Festival will get under way on 23rd June
\nin this central Romanian city. Now in its 30th year, the festival
\nwill see its biggest line-up yet, with over 800 different events in more than
\n80 venues and bringing together around 3,500 performers from around the world.
\nMore than half of the performances are street shows free of charge, while three
\nquarters of the tickets for the indoor performances are already sold out, the
\nfestival president Constantin Chiriac told a press conference. (CM)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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