Weather Report For October 8-21
Meteorologists said the weather will be fine between October 8 and 14, 2018 and in western and southern Romania, temperatures will be higher than normal for this period.
The weather will get colder across Romania starting October 12 when rainfall is highly likely.
Minimum temperatures will be relatively constant between October 8 and 13, of 8 to 10 degrees Celsius, but will subsequently fall to 6-7 degrees on October 15.
Precipitation will be almost absent during this week, but are more likely after October 18. Maximum temperatures will see significant variations during the first three days of the week, with an average 14 degrees, and will fall slightly between October 11 and 16, to an average 12 degrees and subsequently to 10 degrees.
Minimum temperatures will fall from 6 to 4 degrees, around October 12, and afterwards, they will no longer see significant variations. Precipitation will be higher between October 16 – 21. (puterea.ro)
Ponta: Pro Romania To Vote On A Version Of Offshore Bill To Allow Natural Resource Exploitation
Lawmakers affiliated to Pro Romania party will vote on a version of the offshore bill that will allow the exploitation of natural resources, party head Victor Ponta told a press conference on Monday.
Ponta also said Pro Romania wants talks on the matter to be transparent.
Last week, Romanian Lower Chamber MPs modified several provisions of the pending bill which regulates Black Sea offshore exploitations, changing the manner in which investors’ additional income is taxed.
The combined committees for Economy, Industry, Budget and Public Administration reviewed the bill on Tuesday, following a re-examination request made by President Klaus Iohannis, and following the bill being passed by the country’s Senate. The committees passed a series of proposals made by MPs of the ruling Social Democrat Party, which see a higher percentage of tax applied to additional income from offshore exploitations, on different taxing categories.
The initial bill sees a progressive taxation system for the additional income, according to its price range. The bill is set to be voted upon by Romania’s Lower Chamber, as a deciding body, after it was passed by the Senate on September 24. The bill was initially passed by the Parliament at the beginning of July, but was sent back for re-examination by President Klaus Iohannis, who considered some of the bill’s provisions “unclear”. (jurnalul.ro)
EU Commissioner: I Will Not Accept Any More Insult From The Romanian Government
The Romanian EU Commissioner for Regional Development, Corina Cretu, denounced a tense relationship with the Romanian Government and criticized it for a lack of large infrastructure projects, , in a press conference held on Monday.
The commissioner said that through her work she relieved strain on the country’s national budget by EUR3 billion, by securing EU funds, which she states “would have been lost otherwise”.
She added that Romanian authorities risk losing around EUR800 million worth of European funds only in 2018, and that her team is doing “superhuman efforts” to avoid that situation.
“I don’t understand the tension created between myself and the Government, to put things frankly. We have money in Brussels for infrastructure projects, but we have no projects. Targu Mures-Iasi (a planned highway, ed.) is a priority of the European Commission, we need to complete infrastructure projects which connect Europe, especially the Republic of Moldova and Moldova (the region of Romania, ed.) with Central and Southeastern Europe,” said Cretu.
The EU commissioner said that she is against building the Targu Mures-Iasi highway through a public-private partnership, as the Commission would see that as a sign that the investment was deprioritized.
Cretu also criticized the fact that Romanian authorities did not file any other project with the Commission outside of the Otopeni Airport – Gara de Nord subway line, despite announcing its intention to do so for multiple highways and other projects. (puterea.ro)