Romania’s cabinet meeting on Thursday
Talks at a cabinet meeting on Thursday are expected to include a plan of new measures in the country’s education system. Government will also discuss issues concerning a restructuring of the Romanian Ministry of Development along with measures designed to simplify urban planning along with ways of stepping up investments. As far as Romania’s education is concerned, over 62,000 positions out of nearly 230,000 teaching jobs are threatened by vacancy starting from August 31 this year when many individual contracts will end. Therefore, teachers will be unable to answer the needs of the students during the next school year. Ministers at the cabinet meeting are also expected to bring changes to an existing order (34/2024) allowing mothers in need to benefit from social vouchers of RON 2,000. In another move, Romanian government will declare Saturday, April 26 as a Day of National Mourning in memory of Pope Francis.
Romanian magistrates’ pay getting “normal”
Magistrates in Romania would retire at 65 starting from January 1, 2026, similar to most Romanian employees. Romanian parliament’s lower house approved a draft law on the matter on Wednesday, April 23. A previous draft law allowed the retirement age of judges and prosecutors to gradually increase until 2045. And more, pension is to be calculated as 80 percent of the average of the monthly allowance and bonuses received during last 48 months in service. The draft law was strongly criticised by Romania’s Superior Council of Magistracy and rejected by parliament’s judicial commission.
“Die Stadt ohne Juden/ A City without Jews” – a cine-concert at the Jewish Theatre in Bucharest
The silent film “Die Stadt ohne Juden/A City Without Jews” (1924, directed by Hans Karl Breslauer) is seen as one of most important Austrian films but also a premonitory work of art. Based on the novel by Hugo Bettauer, the film presents with oppressive clairvoyance cultural and economic impoverishment of a city left without Jews. In the context of Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorating the end of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (May 16, 1943), the restored version of this centennial creation by Filmarchiv Austria will be released as part of a special cine-concert by pianist Gerhard Gruber, at the State Jewish Theatre in Bucharest (Str. Doctor Iuliu Barasch 15), on April 29, at 6:00 p.m., in the presence of Mrs. Ulla Krauss-Nussbaumer, Austrian Ambassador to Romania.
Alexandru Danga
