The EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton calls on Romania to use the COVID Green Pass
The EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton, who visited Romania on Thursday, has said that the vote in parliament to adopt the COVID Green Certificate is important, because it ensures survival in the pandemic, along with the vaccination. Thierry Breton has meetings with the acting ministers of defense and health and also with President Klaus Iohannis. In his meetings with the Romanian officials, the EU Commissioner has discussed about the COVID-19 vaccination process, the strengthening of the internal market and the cyber-security, among other topics. President Klaus Iohannis has expressed Romania’s appreciation for the support that the European Commission has offered the country in handling the health crisis and said that the COVID-19 pandemic is posing many challenges and the EU member states should continue to coordinate their efforts and maintain unity in their actions. Commissioner Thierry Breton has underlined that the EU Commission will continue its efforts in dealing with the pandemic and is asking member states to make good use of the tools and mechanisms created at EU level. In Mr. Breton’s opinion, there are two important tools that work in the fight against the pandemic: the vaccination and the Green Certificate.
Thiery Breton: It is time to be united, because only together we can win this war. We are all Europeans, we share the same values. It is time to act. We cannot postpone for several months, because the virus does not wait. So, it is important that the Green Certificate is adopted and implemented, because we know that the vaccination and the Green Certificate are the key to ensure our survival and also to be part of the European community.
Representatives of the Romanian parties that aim to form a government will meet President Iohannis to appoint a new prime-minister
Representatives of the National Liberal Party (PNL), the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) are to meet President Klaus Iohannis at Cotroceni Palace on Monday in order to decide on who will be the new prime-minister. The three parties have agreed in principle to govern together and form a new cabinet, but they are yet to agree on how to share the ministries. The Social Democrats are determined to get the finance ministry, if they agree to let Nicolae Ciuca from PNL start the rotational post as prime-minister and also insist to receive the transport ministry. The PSD leader Marcel Ciolacu has said that these negotiations must be ended by Sunday, in order to give the country a stable government next week.
Romania is still a transit country for migrants
Romania continues to be a tranzit country for illegal migrants, with more than 13,000 foreign citizens detected so far this year trying to cross the border illegally. The spokesman for Romanian Border Police Fabian Badila says that many of them were from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka or Afghanistan. Las week alone the authorities have identified 84 foreign citizens who were unable to justify their presence in the city of Timisoara. The asylum seekers are sent to accommodation centers handled by the Immigration Inspector General.
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