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 FILIA Centre organized today at the French Institute a conference on sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the university environment, during which a report on this topic was presented and followed by a debate. My fellow counsellors Andreea Leonte and Anca Chira also attended the event, given our interest in human rights and the status of women in Romania.
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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