Code Yellow Alert For Fog And Snowfall In Several Counties
Romania’s meteorology administration updated its yellow code warnings for fog and issued new ones for the counties of Vaslui, Botosani, Neamt and Iasi.
Weather authorities on Sunday issued a code yellow alert for snowfalls too for five counties. By 3 p.m., the counties of Hunedoara, Caras-Severin, Gorj, Mehedinti and Valcea are under code yellow warning for snowfall.
The meteorology administration also issued new code yellow warnings for fog targeting the counties of Vaslui, Botosani and Neamt, where visibility reaches below 200 meters locally and below 50 meters in some areas. Also, it was extended the code yellow alert for fog for the county of Iasi, until 12 p.m., as well as for the counties of Maramures and Cluj, until 10 a.m. and for the county of Harghita, until 11 a.m. (Adevarul)
Twentieth Day Of Anti-Government Protests
Protests against the Romanian Government continued into the 20th day, but capital Bucharest was no longer the center of protests, as most protesters, namely, more than 3,000, gathered in north-western city of Cluj.
Romania’s social democrat government led by Sorin Grindeanu recently survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament, amid ample street protests countrywide that have been going on for more than a week. The cabinet’s adoption of a decree in January decriminalizing abuse of office sparked the largest street protests since the collapse of the communist regime. (Evenimentul Zilei)
Pig Breeders In Romania Get EUR86M State Aid
Romania’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development plans to allocate EUR86 million to pig breeders in Romania, in 2017, through a state aid scheme.
The implementation of the state aid aims to help pig breeders cope with the problems in this sector. The need for this program is due to pressures faced by pork producers in Romania in the process of capitalizing on production and to massive pork imports which, according to statistics, rose to 230,000 tons in 2015.
As regards tomatoes, another product facing massive imports, the ministry already set off a support program for tomatoes grown in greenhouses and solaris, allocating EUR40 million to this end, in 2017. (Evenimentul Zilei)
Transport Ministry: Students Will Still Benefit From Free Train Trips
Students’ right to travel by train free of charge shall not be canceled, but will remain as regulated under government emergency ordinance no. 2 / 2017, the Transport Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
Emergency ordinance no. 2 stipulates that “throughout the calendar year, students benefit from free train trips at all categories of trains, second class.” (Romania Libera)
PSD Head: New Justice Minister Must Be Appointed This Week
Social democrat head Liviu Dragnea on Sunday said the future Justice minister must be appointed this week.
”This week, we must decide on two nominations (Justice minister and the minister for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)– e.n.). The nominations must be approved in the political structures of the ruling collation and subsequently submitted to the presidential Palace to be approved by President Iohannis (…).”
Dragnea suggested the Justice minister nominee could be politically independent. (Adevarul)