Budget
\nadjustment without green light from Supreme Defence Council<\/strong><\/p>\n
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The Government of Romania, formed by the Social Democratic Party and
\nthe Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, on Wednesday passed a state budget
\nadjustment bill that had not been green lighted by the Supreme Defence Council,
\namid disagreements on this topic with President Klaus Iohannis. <\/p>\n
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On Tuesday, the President suspended a meeting of the Supreme Defence
\nCouncil, after its members failed to reach an agreement on the state budget
\nadjustment bill. Klaus Iohannis asked the Cabinet to come up with a new bill,
\neliminating what he saw as unaccountable cuts in the budgets of national
\nsecurity institutions. The Government has a parallel agenda to the one of
\nRomania’s citizens and is trying to divert attention from the serious problems
\nto which it is unable to find solutions, the President argued. He publicly
\nrequested the Ombudsman to notify the Constitutional Court with respect to the
\n2018 state budget’s compliance with the Constitution. On the other hand, the
\nPresident says the PM ignored his invitation to a dialogue regarding the public
\nbudget adjustment, which, in his opinion, is a dangerous precedent in
\ninstitutional relations. <\/p>\n
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Thursday’s planned talks between the President and the Prime
\nMinister were replaced by a meeting between the Finance Minister Eugen
\nTeodorovici and the Justice Minister Tudorel Toader, on the one hand, and two
\npresidential advisers, on the other hand. The Government said the Prime
\nMinister was unable to answer the President’s invitation because she was on an
\nofficial visit to Spain.<\/p>\n
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PM Viorica Dancila on an official
\nvisit to Spain<\/strong><\/p>\n
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During the Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila’s visit to Spain,
\nthe Romanian official and King Felipe VI discussed the privileged relationship
\nbetween the two countries and the excellent level of bilateral political and
\neconomic relations. Previously, the head of the Romanian Government and her
\nSpanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez signed 2 agreements, in the field of defence
\nand public administration. The two prime ministers praised the excellent
\neconomic cooperation, which sees a positive trend both in terms of bilateral
\ntrade, amounting to some 4 billion euros, and in terms of Spanish investments
\nin Romania. <\/p>\n
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Viorica Dancila thanked the Spanish authorities and society for
\ntheir constructive attitude towards the Romanian community in that country,
\nwhose 870,000 members make the second-largest foreign community in Spain. Viorica
\nDancila also tackled the issue of dual citizenship for the Romanians residing
\nin Spain, which, for the time being, is not accepted by Madrid. Dancila’s visit
\ndid not include meetings with representatives of the Romanians living in Spain,
\nsome of whom protested and displayed anti-governmental posters as a response to
\nthe incidents during the protests of August 10, when the gendarmes used
\ndisproportionate force.<\/p>\n
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New chief of National
\nAnti-Corruption Directorate proposed<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n
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Of the 6 applicants for the position of chief prosecutor of the
\nNational Anti-Corruption Directorate, the Romanian Justice Minister Tudorel
\nToader has chosen Adina Florea. She headed the Constanta County Prosecutor’s
\nOffice for several years and was later the deputy chief of the Prosecutor’s
\nOffice attached to the Constanta Court of Appeals. The objectives in Florea’s
\nmanagement plan include an analysis of the acquittals ordered by courts,
\nreducing the prosecutors’ backlog of case files, and enhancing the transparency
\nof the Directorate’s activity. After the Supreme Council of Magistracy issues
\nan official opinion on the candidate, the nomination will be forwarded to the
\nPresident of Romania, Klaus Iohannis. The post has been vacant since President
\nIohannis was forced by a Constitutional Court ruling to remove Laura Codrut
\nKovesi from office, at the request of Justice Minister Toader.<\/p>\n
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African swine fever in
\nRomania<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n
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Under the budget adjustment bill passed on Wednesday, the National
\nVeterinary Authority received an additional 30 million euros for measures to
\ncontain the African swine fever epidemic. The institution announced that the
\nassessment of over 3,000 households and farms has been completed, and less than
\n200 compensation applications have been approved. Compensations total more than
\n10 million euros, which will be financed from the budget of the Veterinary
\nAuthority and from funds earmarked by the European Commission. The Authority
\nannounced that over 830 outbreaks of swine fever are active in 190 villages
\nfrom 11 counties in the north-west and south-east of Romania. Over 170,000 pigs
\nwere infected or killed. The African swine fever is a viral disease affecting domestic
\nand wild pigs alike, which develops rapidly and has mortality rates of up to
\n100%. The General Prosecutor’s Office has announced that it is investigating
\nthe management of the crisis by the authorities. President Klaus Iohannis also
\nrequested checks into how the authorities implemented swine fever control and
\nprevention measures. <\/p>\n
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