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MOTION Romania's right-wing president Klaus Iohannis announced that Friday would see the first round of talks with Parliament parties because Romania is in dire need of a government after Parliament on Thursday passed a no-confidence motion against the Social Democratic government led by Viorica Dancila. Iohannis, who had described the former government as failed and confused said that after learning the suggestions of the parties, he would come up with a government formula and a clear mandate to provide a responsible and efficient ruling until the Parliamentary election. In Iohannis' opinion, snap election is the best solution to the political crisis currently affecting Romania. The outgoing Prime Minister, Viorica Dancila, has said that her cabinet leaves with its duty done and made an appeal to the president, whom she blames for the present political chaos, to quickly appoint a capable government, 'if he has any'. The National Liberal Party, which initiated the motion through its president Ludovic Orban, said that Romania needs serious projects and a government, which can show fairness. 238 senators and deputies have voted in favour of the no confidence vote, which needed 233 votes to pass. The political struggle intensifies less than a month ahead of the presidential election. We recall that both Klaus Iohannis and Viorica Dancila are running for the presidential seat.
NOBEL Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk was given the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature while Austrian Peter Handke reaped this year's edition of the prestigious award. According to the Swedish Academy, Tokarczuk, was given the prize for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopaedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life, while Handke, was recognized for a body of work including novels, essays and drama "that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."
GROWTH The National Institute of Statistics has revised slightly downwards from 4.6% to 4.5% its estimates regarding the growth of the country's GDP in the 2nd half of 2019 as compared to the same period of last year. In another development, the World Bank has slightly improved estimates regarding Romania's economic development for the coming years but draws attention to the risk of a rise in pay inequities. The WB recommends the government to include on its priorities agenda measures aimed at curbing the high unemployment rate among young people and people with low qualification and at making reforms in the public administration and the state-owned companies.
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