Financing. The European Commission transferred to Romania, on Thursday, under the NextGenerationEU instrument, 1.8 billion euro worth of pre-financing, the equivalent of 13% of the total grants allocated to the country under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, according to a communiqué issued by the European Commission. This pre-financing will support the start of the implementation of the investment and reform measures included in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. Under the Plan, Romania benefits from approximately 29 billion euros, of which almost half are grants and the rest are loans. In another move, the Commission has decided to send Romania to the Court of Justice of the European Union in two cases: for failing to comply with EU rules to tackle industrial pollution and to adopt an air pollution control programme. Covid-19. Two of the three people that have been recently brought back to the country from South Africa are most likely infected with
I m Not a Hero : Meet the Crusading Journalist at the Heart of Oscar-Nominated Documentary Collective
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Catalin Tolontan wasn’t ready for his close-up.
The Romanian sports journalist whose investigative work provides the spine of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Collective,” initially turned down director Alexander Nanau’s offer to capture him at work as he sought to expose widespread fraud and corruption. The story he was chasing, one that involved a staggering level of bureaucratic ineptitude and institutional greed, was simply too hot to risk compromising his sources.
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“I had a lot of reservations,” Tolontan told