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ENERGY On February 1st the government in Bucharest is expected to endorse new measures aimed at capping electricity and gas prices. The aforementioned measures will be promoted through an emergency ordinance to be passed the next week at the latest. Romania's Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca has today held talks with energy suppliers who, according to government sources, have agreed with the newly announced measures for subsidizing and capping energy prices, pledging to rectify the bills initially issued. The head of the Executive on Monday announced that following an agreement of the ruling coalition made up of PNL, PSD and UDMR prices in gas and electricity would be capped and the consumption limit extended.
COVID-19 Authorities in Romania have today announced 16,760 new Covid infections, double the number of yesterday as well as 70 related fatalities. Bucharest has today reached an infection rate of 6.15 cases per thousand and has been in the red tier since January 12th. With 8 million people vaccinated Romania still is the last but one in an EU ranking. Bulgaria is the country with the lowest number of immunized people in the bloc.
TENNIS 14th-seeded tennis player Simona Halep has qualified for the second round of Australian Open, the year's first Grand Slam tournament after a two-set win 6-4, 6-3 against Magdalena Frech of Poland. A former top seed, Halep took one hour and 29 minutes to obtain the victory against the Polish challenger. Five Romanian women players out of six have qualified for the tournament's second round. They are Simona Halep, Sorana Cirstea, Irina Begu, Gabriela Ruse and Jaqueline Cristian. From the Romanian delegation only Irina Bara was eliminated in the competition's first round.
EUMaltese center-right MEP Roberta Metsola was elected president of the European Parliament on Tuesday. Metsola, who won 458 votes out of the total 616, had an absolute majority avoiding the need for a second round of voting. A member of the European People's Party, Metsola succeeds Italian Social Democrat David Sassoli who died last week at the age of 65. Sassoli was a politician and journalist very appreciated in Italy, a supporter of the EU, who firmly campaigned for human rights observance around the world, this is how Romanian MEP Eugen Tomac has described him. A vehement critic of the abuses committed by Russian president Vladimir Putin, in 2021 Sassoli got interdiction to enter Russia in response to the EU sanctions imposed to some Russian officials. Sassoli was also a supporter of the EU integration efforts of the ex-soviet, Romanian-speaking republic of Moldova.
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