{"id":124674,"date":"2019-07-27T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/july-22-26-124674.html"},"modified":"2024-02-19T10:47:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T08:47:54","slug":"july-22-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/the-week-in-review\/july-22-26-id124674.html","title":{"rendered":"July 22-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>New ministers in the Romanian government<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Romanian&#13;<br \/>\npresident Klaus Iohannis signed the appointment of Nicolae Moga and Ramona&#13;<br \/>\nManescu to the positions of interior minister and foreign minister&#13;<br \/>\nrespectively. The two were sworn in on the same day. Nicolae Moga, a former&#13;<br \/>\nsenator from Constanta and former vice-president of the Senate in the Standing&#13;<br \/>\nBureau replaced outgoing Carmen Dan at the helm of the interior ministry.&#13;<br \/>\nRamona Manescu joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats &#8211; ALDE, in the&#13;<br \/>\ngoverning coalition, in 2017. Previously she held the position of transport&#13;<br \/>\nminister. An MEP since 2007, Ramona Manescu was appointed foreign minister,&#13;<br \/>\nthus replacing outgoing Teodor Melescanu. Through another presidential decree,&#13;<br \/>\nMihai Fifor was appointed vice-prime minister for Romania&#8217;s strategic&#13;<br \/>\npartnerships. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Romanians in the Diaspora<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian president has&#13;<br \/>\npromulgated the law on early and postal voting for the Romanians in the&#13;<br \/>\nDiaspora, which allows them to cast their vote for 3 days in order to avoid&#13;<br \/>\nwhat happened at the May 26 EP elections, when many Romanians abroad could not&#13;<br \/>\nvote because of the very long queues. According to the new law, the Romanian&#13;<br \/>\ncitizens abroad will be able to vote either by post or in advance from Friday&#13;<br \/>\nto Sunday. On the last voting day, the vote may be extended until midnight for&#13;<br \/>\nthose people who are inside the polling stations or queuing outside. The&#13;<br \/>\nprocedure will also be applied in Romania. For the postal vote, Romanians&#13;<br \/>\nabroad will have to register on the permanent electoral lists for the Romanians&#13;<br \/>\nin the Diaspora by means of an online form that can be found on the website of&#13;<br \/>\nthe Permanent Electoral Authority. They will also have to attach a scanned copy&#13;<br \/>\nor a photo of their ID to this form. They can register on this list starting on&#13;<br \/>\nSunday on the platform <a href=http:\/\/www.votstrainatate.ro\/>www.votstrainatate.ro<\/a>.&#13;<br \/>\nThe website was created by the Electoral Authority, to have a clearer record of&#13;<br \/>\nRomanians abroad and to provide them with more info on the voting process. An&#13;<br \/>\ninformation campaign has also been started by the Ministry for the Romanians&#13;<br \/>\nAbroad that has recently announced that over 5 and a half million Romanians&#13;<br \/>\nhave left the country. Alongside the Romanians in the historical communities,&#13;<br \/>\nthere are almost 10 million Romanians living outside the country&#8217;s borders,&#13;<br \/>\nshow data provided by Romania&#8217;s 70 diplomatic missions and centralized by the&#13;<br \/>\nMinistry for the Romanians Abroad. According to the line minister Natalia&#13;<br \/>\nIntotero those who leave the country are discontented with the lack of&#13;<br \/>\nfinancial means, with their small incomes, the lack of a decent job, the poor&#13;<br \/>\nquality of the political class and the all pervasive corruption. Minister&#13;<br \/>\nIntotero also announced that the ministry officials were preparing a draft law&#13;<br \/>\non the social and professional reinsertion of Romanians who want to return&#13;<br \/>\nhome, a bill that will be forwarded to Parliament in September. August will see&#13;<br \/>\nthe start of the 2nd stage of the national campaign &#8216;Information at&#13;<br \/>\nhome! Security abroad&#8217; meant to inform Romanians ahead of deciding to leave the&#13;<br \/>\ncountry. The campaign also targets the Romanians abroad who want to return. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>European Commission issues warnings for Romania<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission has&#13;<br \/>\nlaunched infringement procedures against Romania in 11 fields, including air&#13;<br \/>\npollution, financial services, transposing firearms standards into national law&#13;<br \/>\nor illegal migration. On Thursday the Commission pointed out Bucharest has not&#13;<br \/>\nlifted restrictions on natural gas trade among member states, as stipulated by&#13;<br \/>\nEU law. The Commission also noticed that one of the changes brought to the&#13;<br \/>\nenergy law provides for the obligation to sell natural gas on the internal&#13;<br \/>\nmarket as a priority, which is in breach of EU law, creating unwarranted&#13;<br \/>\nbarriers to gas exports. The environment authorities in Bucharest said they&#13;<br \/>\nwill take steps to immediately solve the problems in the field. Another&#13;<br \/>\nprocedure was launched in the case of failing to enact EU standards regarding&#13;<br \/>\ncombating child abuse, sexual child exploitation and child pornography. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A Romanian appointed as interim head of the International Atomic Energy&#13;<br \/>\nAgency<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Romanian Cornel Feruta, a career&#13;<br \/>\ndiplomat for over 20 years, was appointed interim director general of the&#13;<br \/>\nInternational Atomic Energy Agency pending a permanent designation. The&#13;<br \/>\nappointment follows the death of the former head of the institution, Yukiya&#13;<br \/>\nAmano, at a time of intense diplomatic negotiations over Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme.&#13;<br \/>\nCornel Feruta was a chief coordinator with the Agency, a former chief of staff&#13;<br \/>\nfor Yukiya Amano. In the 2007-2012 period he also held the position of&#13;<br \/>\nRomania&#8217;s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Romanian football teams enrolled in European inter-club competitions<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Romanian vice-champions FCSB on&#13;<br \/>\nThursday defeated Armenia&#8217;s FC Alashkert 3-nil in the first leg of the Europa&#13;<br \/>\nLeague second preliminary round. CSU Craiova drew nil-all against Honved&#13;<br \/>\nBudapest away from home, while Viitorul Constanta lost 3-6 away from home against&#13;<br \/>\nBelgium&#8217;s KAA Gent. The return legs are scheduled for next week. On Wednesday,&#13;<br \/>\nRomanian champions CFR Cluj defeated 1-nil Maccabi Tel Aviv of Israel in the&#13;<br \/>\nfirst leg of the Champions League second preliminary round. The return leg is&#13;<br \/>\nscheduled for July 30 in Israel. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n(Translated by L. Simion &#038; V. 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