VISIT The Bulgarian Prime
\nMinister Nikolai Denkov is today paying a formal visit to Bucharest for talks
\nwith his Romanian counterpart Marcel Ciolacu. Denkov’s visit comes after on
\nWednesday, the European Parliament reconfirmed its support for the accession of
\nRomania and Bulgaria to Europe’s border-free area, Schengen. Through a
\nresolution endorsed with a land-slide majority, the MEPs have called on the EU
\nCouncil to approve the candidature of the two countries by the end of the year.
\nThe document says that Romania and Bulgaria are fulfilling all the criteria to
\njoin the Schengen zone that
\nthe exercise of the right of veto, without having presented any
\njustification of a legal nature related to the accession criteria, fuels
\nanti-European sentiment and harms the economy. The European Parliament emphasizes
\nthat Romanians and Bulgarians are discriminated against, because they face
\ndelays, bureaucratic difficulties and additional costs when traveling or doing
\nbusiness abroad, in comparison with the Schengen Area citizens. The European
\nParliament also asks the Commission to estimate the financial losses, lost
\ngains and environmental damage that Romania and Bulgaria have incurred, since
\nJune 2011, due to not being members of the Schengen area and to analyze the
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FOOTBALL
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\nfootball matches pitching Otelul Galati against UTA Arad and Rapid Bucharest
\nagainst Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe are opening tonight the 2023-2024 edition of
\nRomania’s domestic football championship also known as the Superleague. We
\nrecall that on Wednesday, the champions, Farul Constanta, secured a 1-0 home
\nwin against Sheriff Tiraspol of the Republic of Moldova, in the first round of
\nthe Champions League’s preliminaries. The return match takes place in Tiraspol
\nnext week. The team that qualifies will be playing the winner of the double
\nmatch pitching Maccabi Haifa of Israel against Hamrun Spartans of Malta. The
\nIsraeli side secured a four-nil win in the first match. Three Romanian sides
\nare playing in the Conference League. In the second preliminary round, the
\nformer champions CFR Cluj will be up against Adana Demirspor of Turkey. The
\nwinners of Romania’s Cup and Super-Cup, Sepsi will be playing CSKA Sofia of
\nBulgaria while the vice-champions FCSB will be up against CSKA 1948 Sofia. The
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CARE
\nInspections have been carried out at more than two thousand social foster homes
\nand care centers in Romania in the past days. 20 of these, most of them in
\nBucharest, have been closed down. Activity in other 30 facilities of this kind
\nhas been suspended and fines of 2 million Euros have been applied. Two
\ninspectors with the County Agency for Payment and Social Inspection have been
\napprehended for having failed to properly asses the situation in a foster
\ncenter for the disabled. The first leading figure to step down amid the scandal
\nknown in Romania as ‘The Retirement Centers of Horror’, was the country’s
\nSocial-Democratic Minister of Labour Marius Budai. According to some sources,
\nSocial-Democratic leaders are considering the idea of ending the political
\nsupport for Family Minister Gabriela Firea, after she rejected the allegations
\nthat she was connected to the culprits in the aforementioned file. <\/p>\n
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PARADE France’s President
\nEmmanuel Macron is today attending the usual military parade on Champs-Elysees
\non the country’s national day. The event’s special invitee is Indian Premier
\nNarendra Modi. According to Radio Romania’s correspondent in Paris, the
\nsecurity measures are at an unprecedented level in order to prevent urban revolts
\nlike those last month. Elite units of the police and gendarmerie backed by
\nhelicopters and armored vehicles are to supervise the ceremonies. Last year,
\nshortly after the end of the parade, in the so-called sensitive areas on the
\noutskirts of Paris as well as in Marseille and Lyon, police precincts were
\nattacked, cars set on fire and shops looted. The risk seems to be higher this
\nyear mainly after the incident of the teenager shot by the police during a
\ntraffic stop and after hundreds of arrests and prison sentences among young
\npeople for aggression and vandalism at the end of June. <\/p>\n
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\naccording to sources with the Border Police General Inspectorate on Thursday, 147,517
\npeople entered Romania through the border checkpoints, of whom 17,503 were
\nUkrainian nationals. According to a press release issued on Thursday, starting
\non February 10, 2022, two weeks before the Russian army invaded their country, over
\n5 million Ukrainians have entered Romania. The number of Ukrainian citizens who
\ntook up employment in Romania after the start of the war reached an all-time
\nhigh last month – the Romanian Labor Ministry says. According to ministry
\nsources, at the national level, 6,810 employment contracts were concluded for
\nUkrainian citizens, the highest level since February 24, 2022 until now. All in
\nall, the ministry says, that 7,972 active contracts of Ukrainian citizens have
\nbeen registered, of which 6,810 have been concluded after the start of the
\nRussian invasion. 1,452 of the Ukrainians who chose employment in Romania are
\nworking in the manufacturing industry, and 1,181 in the construction industry.
\nAnother 737 are employed in the trade domain. From the point of view of the
\nareas in which they chose to work, the most (2,770) found work in Bucharest,
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