November 27, 2022 UPDATE

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NATO The president of Romania Klaus Iohannis will receive the NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, in Bucharest on Monday. Stoltenberg will chair the meeting of NATO foreign ministers hosted by the Romanian capital city as of Tuesday. Also on this occasion, the US state secretary Antony Blinken will travel to Bucharest, and will have meetings with president Iohannis, PM Nicolae Ciucă and the foreign minister Bogdan Aurescu. The NATO meeting, the first of this kind organised in Romania, focuses on supporting Ukraine against the Russian invasion, energy security and implementing the Alliance's new strategic concept.


MLM A Munich Leaders Meeting (MLM) takes place in Bucharest on Monday and Tuesday. The Romanian foreign ministry is co-hosting this prestigious event, which is part of the Munich Security Conference (MSC). Attending will be over 75 senior officials from over 25 countries, including current and former officials, experts, analysts and opinion leaders. The agenda includes relevant topics for international security, with an emphasis on developments in the Black Sea and Western Balkans regions. Other topics will be the European security architecture, implementing the new NATO Strategic Concept, hybrid threats, food security, and the energy crisis. The conclusions of the meeting in Bucharest will contribute to shaping the agenda of next year's Munich Security Conference.


NATIONAL DAY Events devoted to Romania's National Day on December 1 begin in Alba Iulia on November 30, with military and wreath laying ceremonies. On December 1, more than 850 troops will parade in Alba Iulia, including a French unit part of the NATO battlegroup deployed in Cincu, Braşov County. In Bucharest, over 1,500 troops and staff of the defence ministry, interior ministry, the Romanian Intelligence Service, the Special Telecommunications Service and the Penitentiary Agency as well as vehicles and 40 aircraft will take part in a military parade on December 1. According to a defence ministry news release, around 150 troops from Belgium, France, North Macedonia, R. Of Moldova, the Netherlands, Portugal and the US, will also take part. Romanian military personnel on missions abroad will also organise special ceremonies.


ENVIRONMENT The Romanian environment ministry launched a national forestation programme financed from EU funds under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. The decision was made because forests cover less than 30% of the country's surface, as against the European average of 40%. In some counties in the south and south-east of the country, the ratio is even have less than 5%. Farmers who no longer want to keep their farmland under crops may turn it into forests or shelterbelts. The government provides up to EUR 20,000 for a hectare of oak forest in plains areas and up to EUR 17,000 per hectare of shelterbelts, with an additional EUR 456 per year for each hectare of forest for 20 years.


UKRAINE Heavy rainfall is expected in Ukraine's capital city, Kyiv as of Sunday, with sub-zero temperatures both during the day and at night. Millions of people in the city and the region around it are still without electricity and heat, after Russian shelling damaged the country's energy infrastructure. The region of Dnipropetrovsk, in central Ukraine, was once again hit by 5 Russian missile strikes and heavy artillery attacks, the regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko said. Homes and other buildings were destroyed, but no victims were reported. However, in the southern region of Kherson, where the Russian troops pulled out 2 weeks ago, at least 32 people were killed in the bombings, the Ukrainian police reported.


ENESCU The George Enescu International Music Festival was shortlisted for the prestigious International Opera Awards, the 'Oscars' of the opera world, the festival organisers have announced. The awards ceremony takes place on Monday at Teatro Real (Madrid, Spain). The 2021 edition was shortlisted in the Festivals section, alongside other top-level events in the world of international classical music, such as the Donizetti Festival and Garsington Opera.


HANDBALL The men's handball teams of Romania, Egypt, Algeria and Slovakia take part in this year's Carpaţi Trophy, on December 28th and 29th in Oradea, north-western Romania, the Romanian Handball Federation announced. Egypt and Algeria are qualified to the forthcoming World Championships scheduled for January 2023. Romania's manager Xavi Pascual invited 24 players to convene for the competition on December 26th. (AMP)


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