{"id":612143,"date":"2024-02-07T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/february-7-2024-update-id612143.html"},"modified":"2024-02-07T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T17:48:00","slug":"february-7-2024-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/february-7-2024-update-id612143.html","title":{"rendered":"February 7, 2024 UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong class=cms-bold>EU.<\/strong> The unity of the UE is&#13;<br \/>\nbeing tested, said the president of Romania in his address before the European&#13;<br \/>\nParliament on Wednesday, as part of a debate in the This is Europe&#13;<br \/>\nseries. According to the Romanian official, instability has reached alarming&#13;<br \/>\nlevels in the EU. The European Union must improve the efficiency of its&#13;<br \/>\ndecision-making processes, and Romania is fully engaged in this effort,&#13;<br \/>\nhe added. As for the war in neighbouring Ukraine, Klaus Iohannis said Europeans&#13;<br \/>\nmust stand by Ukraine and its people.  Prior to the address, the Romanian&#13;<br \/>\nofficial had a meeting with the president of the EP, Roberta Metsola, and discussed&#13;<br \/>\nRomania&#8217;s Schengen accession, the war in Ukraine and the neighbouring R. of&#13;<br \/>\nMoldova. Romania&#8217;s full Schengen accession as soon as possible, with its land&#13;<br \/>\nborders as well, will considerably strengthen the Union and its security and&#13;<br \/>\nwill facilitate cohesion and cooperation among member states, the Romanian&#13;<br \/>\nofficial argued. In turn, Metsola said Europe would be stronger with Romania in&#13;<br \/>\nthe Eurozone and the Schengen area, and told Romanians it was important for&#13;<br \/>\nthem to take part in June&#8217;s elections for the EP and not to take Europe for&#13;<br \/>\ngranted.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Farmers.<\/strong> The&#13;<br \/>\npresident of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced&#13;<br \/>\nthe EC was dropping a proposal to halve the use of pesticides across the EU,&#13;<br \/>\nand explained this had become a symbol of polarisation. The move seems to be a&#13;<br \/>\nconcession to the farmers protesting in many EU member states. Meanwhile, the&#13;<br \/>\nEC proposed last week a partial derogation from rules obliging farmers to keep&#13;<br \/>\ncertain areas non-productive, and a limitation of Ukrainian imports, while also&#13;<br \/>\npromising to streamline the Common Agricultural Policy. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Naval.<\/strong> The Damen Shipyard in Gala\u0163i&#13;<br \/>\n(south-eastern Romania) will build a state-of-the-art multifunctional vessel&#13;<br \/>\nfor the Portuguese Navy. The ship will be able to conduct ocean research&#13;<br \/>\nmissions, search and rescue as well as emergency aid missions, and will be&#13;<br \/>\nequipped with a UAV launching system. Damen Group was awarded the construction&#13;<br \/>\nworks following an EU call for tenders. Funding will be provided under the EU&#13;<br \/>\nRecovery and Resilience Mechanism.  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Foreigners.<\/strong> The right of temporary residence of foreign workers in&#13;<br \/>\nRomania can be extended to a maximum of two years, and three years in&#13;<br \/>\nthe case of highly qualified workers respectively, according to the new provisions adopted&#13;<br \/>\nby Parliament on Wednesday. The document also states that applicants for a&#13;<br \/>\nEuropean Union Blue Card must present: a valid employment contract or a firm&#13;<br \/>\noffer of employment for at least 6 months, documents certifying their&#13;<br \/>\nprofessional qualifications, valid travel documents and a visa, if necessary,&#13;<br \/>\nproof that they have applied for health insurance, if this is not provided for&#13;<br \/>\nin the contract. The law certifies &#8211; among other things &#8211; that the General&#13;<br \/>\nInspectorate for Immigration will have the right to check the legality of&#13;<br \/>\ncontracts and the working conditions. The normative act transposes into&#13;<br \/>\nRomanian legislation several European norms concerning foreigners from outside&#13;<br \/>\nthe Union.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Moldova.<\/strong> For&#13;<br \/>\nthe Republic of Moldova, carrying on and consolidating strategic relations with&#13;<br \/>\nneighbouring Romania in all sectors is a priority, was the message brought to&#13;<br \/>\nBucharest by Chi\u015fin\u0103u&#8217;s new foreign minister, Mihai Pop\u015foi. He had talks with&#13;<br \/>\nhis Romanian counterpart, Lumini\u0163a Odobescu, and was also received by PM Marcel&#13;<br \/>\nCiolacu, who emphasised the interest in developing joint projects benefitting&#13;<br \/>\nthe citizens of both states. Romania will continue to support Moldova in its EU&#13;<br \/>\naccession negotiations, the Romanian official promised.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Polo.<\/strong> The Romanian national team defeated the team of  Kazakhstan 25 to 3, on Wednesday, in Group D&#13;<br \/>\nof the Men&#8217;s World Aquatics Championships in Doha (Qatar). Previously, Romania&#13;<br \/>\nwas defeated by Hungary 8-15.  Italy is&#13;<br \/>\nalso part of the group. The winners of the groups qualify directly for the&#13;<br \/>\nquarter-finals and the teams in the second and third positions are in for a&#13;<br \/>\nplay-off for the quarters.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Tennis.<\/strong> Romanian tennis player Sorana C\u00eerstea has spectacularly&#13;<br \/>\nqualified for the quarter-finals of the WTA 500 tournament in Abu Dhabi (United&#13;<br \/>\nArab Emirates), with over 900 thousand dollars in prize money. On Wednesday,&#13;<br \/>\nshe defeated the Greek Maria Sakkari, 6-2, 6-1.  C\u00eerstea (33 years old, 26th place WTA) has&#13;<br \/>\nthus won her second victory this year. She will face the Russian Daria&#13;<br \/>\nKasatkina (26 years old, 14th place WTA) in the quarters. (MI)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roundup of domestic and international news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":105194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-612143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsflash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>February 7, 2024 UPDATE - Radio Romania International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/february-7-2024-update-id612143.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"February 7, 2024 UPDATE - 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