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\nleaders of the ruling coalition in Bucharest will meet on Monday to discuss the
\nplan of fiscal measures the government intends to implement from autumn to
\nbalance the budget and secure further funds for education and healthcare. The
\nbusiness community calls for transparency in the adoption of the measures to
\nreduce the budget deficit. According to business, the result of the fiscal
\nmeasures envisaged by the government will lead to price rises, a higher
\ninflation rate and redundancies. The government is expected to further increase
\nexcise duties, eliminate tax facilities and increase other duties in order to
\nmeet its budget deficit target and avoid losing billion euros worth of EU
\nfunding. The president of the National Council of Small and Medium Sized
\nEnterprises Florin Jianu has urged the government to very carefully analyse the
\nmeasures it is considering and especially their economic, social and political
\nconsequences and has warned that small and medium sized companies are worried
\nabout the drop in domestic demand and the increasingly expensive loans. <\/p>\n
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\ncare homes for older persons, children and persons with disabilities around
\nRomania are in their final stage and the results have been made public by the
\ngovernment. Following inquiries, 47 criminal cases were opened and more than
\n10,500 fines were levied, while 18 care homes were closed and 110 suspended.
\nPrime minister Marcel Ciolacu asked the labour minister Simona Bucura-Oprescu to dismiss all heads of
\nCounty Agencies for Payments and Social Inspection, including the Bucharest
\nbranch, until disciplinary investigations are finalised. He said firm measures
\nwere needed against those state employees who were aware of and tolerated the
\nirregularities taking place at these centres. He also asked the labour minister
\nto come up with draft legislation to address the situation as soon as possible,
\nand on the investment minister Adrian
\nC\u00e2ciu to make sure that care homes benefit from European funding. The inquiries
\nhave been conducted in the wake of revelations of organised criminal groups
\nexploiting and abusing residents of care homes for older persons and persons
\nwith disabilities, including beatings, insults, starvation, forced labour and
\ndenying them basic hygiene conditions. <\/p>\n
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\nwants to provoke a global food crisis by pulling out of the deal on the export
\nof Ukrainian cereals via the Black Sea, said the Romanian foreign minister Lumini\u0163a Odobescu at a meeting
\nof EU foreign ministers in Brussels. She said member states acknowledged Romania’s efforts to facilitate the
\nexport of Ukrainian grain and offered to help consolidate the port and railway
\ninfrastructure on Romanian territory to prevent a blockage of the transit of
\ngrain. The European Commission also said that the Romanian authorities can
\nunilaterally decide to create special corridors for the transport of Romanian
\ncereals to the port of Constan\u0163a, following a request to this effect made by
\nRomanian farmers. There are fears that Romania’s biggest Black Sea port may become
\novercrowded as Romanian farmers have announced better crops than last year,
\nwhile the transit of Ukrainian cereals will generate even more traffic. <\/p>\n
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\nGiurgiu’s film Freedom has made the official selection of the Sarajevo Film
\nFestival, vying for the Heart of Sarajevo trophy. Inspired by true events, the
\nfilm tells a little known incident that took place in Sibiu during the 1989
\nanti-communist revolution. Last year, when it was still in production, Freedom
\nwon the jury prize at CineLink
\nIndustry Days, the Sarajevo festival’s programme for projects under
\ndevelopment. The film was first screened at the Transylvania International Film
\nFestival in Cluj Napoca, winning the audience award for most popular Romanian
\nfilm. The Sarajevo Film Festival is the biggest event of its kind in
\nsouth-eastern Europe and one of the biggest in Europe. It was founded in 1995,
\nduring the siege of Sarajevo at the time of the Bosnian war. <\/p>\n
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\nmonth may have been the hottest July on record owing to the unusually high ocean
\ntemperatures and the heat waves seen in a number of regions in the northern
\nhemisphere, according to the Copernicus Observatory. Large areas in southern
\nEurope, China and North America have been struggling with extreme temperatures
\nin recent days. A red alert is in place in Greece, where all archaeological
\nsites, including the Acropolis in Athens, are closed during the hottest hours until
\nSunday. Wild fires are also wreaking havoc in the Athens region and on Rhodes
\nIsland, where a number of settlements and resorts have been evacuated. Almost
\n80 Romanian fire fighters helped extinguish the fires near Athens on Thursday. Italy,
\nSpain, France, Croatia and Serbia are also affected by extreme heat. Meteorologists
\nare warning of a new heat wave in Europe, with temperatures set to pass 40
\ndegrees Celsius, and the European Space Agency saying Europe may next week see
\nthe highest temperatures ever recorded on this continent. (CM)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"