Visit. Prime minister Nicolae Ciucă is travelling to Brussels on Monday and Tuesday for talks with top EU and NATO officials. He will have a working dinner on Monday with the president of the European Council Charles Michael and on Tuesday he will meet the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and other Commission members. Prime minister Ciucă is also expected to meet NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the NATO headquarters.Travel. Border checkpoints for entering Romania by road are becoming even busier as the winter holidays are nearing, especially on the western border. The authorities say the infrastructure is used to the maximum and the number of staff has been beefed up. The country s biggest airport near Bucharest is also getting busier, with new measures to manage passenger flow in place from Saturday. Passengers can only disembark in groups of 50, at an interval of 15 minutes. EU citizens holding Covid green certificates are in a special fast track
VISIT The PM of Romania Nicolae Ciucă will be on a visit to
Brussels on Monday and Tuesday, for talks with senior EU and NATO officials. According
to the Government, on Monday the Romanian PM will have a working dinner with
the president of the European Council Charles Michael. On Tuesday, Ciucă will
have meetings with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der
Leyen and with other EC members. The PM will also have a meeting with the
secretary general of NATO Jens Stoltenberg at the NATO headquarters.
BUDGET The
government of Romania passed a number of measures on which the 2022 public
budget is based. An emergency order freezing the salaries of public officials and
other public sector staff, with 2 exceptions, was endorsed by the Cabinet with
amendments compared to the version subject to public debate. The bill also
includes other measures, such as a low VAT rate only for the purchase of a
family s first home. The new tax provisions, alongside the new Ce
VISIT The PM of Romania Nicolae Ciucă will be on a visit to
Brussels on Monday and Tuesday, for talks with senior EU and NATO officials. According
to the Government, on Monday the Romanian PM will have a working dinner with
the president of the European Council Charles Michael. On Tuesday, Ciucă will
have meetings with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der
Leyen and with other EC members. The PM will also have a meeting with the
secretary general of NATO Jens Stoltenberg at the NATO headquarters.
BUDGET The
government of Romania passed a number of measures on which the 2022 public
budget is based. An emergency order freezing the salaries of public officials and
other public sector staff, with 2 exceptions, was endorsed by the Cabinet with
amendments compared to the version subject to public debate. The bill also
includes other measures, such as a low VAT rate only for the purchase of a
family s first home. The new tax provisions, alongside the new Ce
Romanians interest in vaccination continues to drop, despite doctors assurances that immunisation greatly reduces the risk of severe forms of Covid-19 and associated deaths. Experts point to a decrease in the incidence of cases in recent weeks across the country and recall the end of October, when Romania recorded the highest number of people vaccinated with the first dose since the beginning of the pandemic, 111,000. Back them, however, it was announced that Romanians would be allowed to go to work only if they had a green certificate and, specialists say, that prompted them to get vaccinated.After the bill on the digital certificate was rejected by the Senate and blocked in the Chamber of Deputies, interest in immunisation has steadily declined. In this context, the coordinator of the national vaccination campaign against COVID-19, Valeriu Gheorghiţă, is of the opinion that the implementation of the green certificate must be done in such a way as to prevent a new
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