I went, as most of you did today, at the opening of the school year. As a parent, not as a politician. And I don't think politicians should open the school year. But I will tell you what I will do for education this school year.
The energy GEO issued by the Ciucă government will generate chain bankruptcies in the energy sector, without leading to lower prices or reducing the production deficit. The 98% tax on the price difference between buying and selling energy ignores the fact that energy supply companies are already financing more than 10 billion in working capital, most of which comes from loans in the banking system.
Bucharest, 30 August 2022: Cătălin Teniță, MP elected on the USR PLUS lists in the Bucharest constituency, resigns from USR. He joins the REPER Party from September 1st.
On every map related to reproductive rights and the status of women, Romania is marked with 🔴red or 🟠orange. Ioana is a 20-year-old girl from Romania. She gave birth to her first child when she was 15. In her community, it's common to hear of teenage parents having two or three children, maybe more. Parents so young they wouldn't be allowed to legally consume alcohol in other countries of the world.
August 10, 2018 was an "election" day, perhaps more than a normal election days. August 10, 2018 showed what Romania's population wants. The overwhelming number of Romanians who participated in the protest in Victory Square then, as well as their relatives and loved ones who learned about the PSD's repression of a peaceful movement by the gendarmerie, changed many people's view of politics.
PNL and PSD have decided to vote against the school feeding program proposed by the mayor of Brasov, Allen Coliban. Now, in a year when price hikes will squeeze the budgets of many families, especially those with children in school.
Romania's economy relies as much on cleaning women, nannies, painters and drivers as it does on programmers, marketers and accountants. However, more than it does in civil servants paid twice the average wage in the economy or in politicians who live on charity.
The Interparliamentary Alliance for China (IPAC) on new evidence of abuses committed by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) - the Chinese Communist Party structure that is operationalizing genocide against the Uyghur population, calls for trade sanctions against XPCC and its corporate holding companies, as well as Magnitsky sanctions against XPCC and PRC officials responsible for abuses in the Uyghur region.
"Faced with the risk of Russia using natural gas as a weapon against the EU and cutting off supplies completely before winter, the European Commission has put forward a proposal to reduce consumption in all Member States by 15% between August 2022 and March 2023, compared to the same period in the last five years. While technically convincing, the proposal has a major flaw: it will sow divisions between Member States."
The Senate of the Czech Republic hosted today a delegation from the Taiwanese Parliament led by Mr You Si-kun, President of the Taiwanese legislature. I had the honor to participate, as co-chair of IPAC Romania (Interparliamentary Alliance on China), in all the moments of this historic visit, together with French Senator Andre Gattolin, at the invitation of our IPAC colleague, Czech Senator Pavel Fisher (one of the most prominent personalities in Czech politics, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Policy Committee).
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