Romania at the NATO summit<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Romania has reached its goals at the summit, President Klaus
\nIohannis said Thursday, fresh from a NATO meeting hosted by Brussels:<\/p>\n
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I am convinced that this meeting has contributed to ensuring
\na solid defense for Romania and a visible role for this country in guaranteeing
\nthe security of our region and of the Euro-Atlantic area.<\/p>\n
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President Iohannis pointed out that Romania wanted a strong,
\nunited and cohesive Alliance, a strong trans-Atlantic relation and a
\nwell-consolidated and balanced eastern flank:<\/p>\n
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I am happy to see that the idea has been generally accepted
\nand member states are working on a concept that will lead to a balanced
\napproach on the eastern flank. It is critical for us that the Black Sea and the
\nBlack Sea region should remain the focus of attention, and if we speak about
\nthe eastern flank, we should obviously also speak about Russia. Things are very
\nclear in this respect: we want to have a unitary approach, not against Russia,
\nnot for Russia, but a unitary approach when it comes to Russia.<\/p>\n
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At the NATO summit the Romanian President also emphasized the
\nfact that Romania’s having earmarked 2% of its GDP to defense was much
\nappreciated by the Allies. They agreed that NATO should be more active in
\nfighting terrorism and become a member of the Global Coalition Against Daesh,
\nwithout, however, getting involved in the combat operations. Last but not
\nleast, President Iohannis hailed the completion of Montenegro’s NATO accession.
\nOn the sidelines of the summit in Brussels, Klaus Iohannis had a meeting with
\nhis Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda, with whom he discussed about staging a new
\nregional meeting in Bucharest, in preparation for the NATO summit of 2018.
\nSince Thursday’s NATO summit was the first to be attended by two new leaders,
\nthe US President
\nDonald Trump and the French President Emmanuel Macron, President Iohannis
\nwarmly welcomed them, assuring them of Romania’s entire support, since Romania
\nhas solid strategic partnerships with both countries.<\/p>\n
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The European Commission and the IMF on Romania’s economy<\/strong><\/p>\n
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The European Commission (EC) has this week warned Romania
\nthat in 2016 it significantly swerved from the medium-term budget targets, and
\nthat this year it also risks further deviation from the targets. The EC expects
\nRomania to report a budget deficit of 3.5% of the GDP in 2017 and of 3.7% in
\n2018, above the level agreed upon with the EU by 3%. <\/p>\n
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Brussels officials are concerned, among other things, with
\nthe implementation of the unitary pay law for public sector employees,
\ncurrently debated by Parliament, which might lead to much higher expenses than
\nthe coalition government in Bucharest can afford. Consequently the EC
\nrecommends Romania to use any supplementary revenues to reduce the deficit and
\nto also take measures for a more efficient tax collection and for fighting
\nillegal labor. The same pay law is in the focus of the IMF, which sees the law
\nalongside the new tax cuts as risks posed to the budget deficit, which was estimated
\nat 3.7% in 2017. According to the IMF, Romania’s economy will report 4.2%
\ngrowth in 2017. <\/p>\n
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The unified pay law reaches Parliament<\/strong><\/p>\n
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The main party in the governing coalition, the Social
\nDemocratic Party, claims the salaries of Romanians need to be augmented, to
\nprevent them from leaving the country, a move that would entail higher
\nbudgetary expenses. Starting from this idea, the Government has sent to
\nParliament for debate the unified pay bill for public sector employees, which
\nwas already passed by the Senate on Tuesday. Next week the bill will be debated
\nby the Chamber of Deputies’ experts’ committees, which is a decision-making
\nbody in this regard. The bill provides for major salary increases for public
\nsector employees, in several stages, by 2022. <\/p>\n
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The draft law was voted by the senators of the Social
\nDemocratic Party and of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats as well as of
\nthe Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania, but it was criticized by
\nthe opposition parties, the National Liberal Party, the Save Romania Union and
\nthe People’s Movement Party. Their reason for rejecting the bill was that it
\ndoes not clearly stipulate the impact on the budget and the source of funding
\nsalary rises. More than 300 amendments were made to the bill, of which more
\nthan half were adopted, some of which were made by the opposition. In another
\ndevelopment, also on Tuesday, President Iohannis promulgated the law that
\nincreases the salaries of military staff, a law that benefits over 46,000
\npeople. <\/p>\n
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Investigation into the 2009 presidential elections<\/strong><\/p>\n
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A special parliamentary committee is investigating the
\ncircumstances in which, back in 2009, the former right-wing president, Traian
\nB\u0103sescu, obtained a second term in office as president, defeating in the second
\nround the then Social Democrat leader Mircea Geoan\u0103. The investigation was
\ngenerated by the controversial journalist Dan Andronic whose disclosures in the
\npress led to the setting up of the committee. Heard by the committee on Monday
\nDan Andronic said he had no further information on the issue, besides what he
\nhad already revealed, or any indication that the election was possibly rigged. <\/p>\n
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Recently he has stated that on the night preceding the second
\nround of the presidential vote, 8 years ago, he met, in an informal place, with
\nthe then prosecutor general Laura Codru\u0163a Kovesi, currently the head of the
\nNational Anti-Corruption Directorate, the former director of the Romanian
\nIntelligence Service, George Maior, currently Romania’s ambassador to the
\nWashington, and his first deputy, Florian Coldea, and that the meeting seemed
\nto be a crisis cell. According to Andronic, all the aforementioned officials
\nrisked being dismissed if Mircea Geoan\u0103 became president. Before the
\ninvestigation committee Mircea Geoan\u0103 said there was a deliberate effort,
\ncoordinated from the state’s highest level, to influence the election. <\/p>\n
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The special parliamentary committee will continue the
\nhearings of high-raking politicians and diplomats who were involved in the 2009
\nelection. <\/p>\n
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