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Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ No. 15/ 7th Year POLITICS 1. Elected President Klaus Iohannis attended the National Day festivities on December 1 in Alba Iulia 2. National Day parade: Over 2,800 military, 280 combat vehicles marched in Constitution Square 3. PM Ponta: We'll have 15 priority directions of action in the government programme 4. AFP: Romanian PM reshuffles cabinet after poll defeat 5. ForMin Aurescu: NATO must continue to keep an eye on the Black Sea region 6. Experts of the European Commission for the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism met Romanian MPs ECONOMICS 1. INSCOP: Creating jobs and respect for laws, indicated by Romanians as main priorities of President 2. Exports hit 44 billion euros at the end of October 3. Agreement in principle with IMF for 1.83pct of GDP budget deficit 4. Romania, Vice-President on behalf of the Eastern European Group of the Board of UNIDO 5. Romania records an economic growth of 1.8% in Q3 6. Industry, agriculture, communications have greatest contribution to GDP growth 7. Romania becomes co-owner of the International Space Station SOCIAL 1. Royal House organized a symbolic trip by the royal train on December 1 2. Princess Margareta and Prince Radu welcomed by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace 3. Unemployment rate in October 2014 estimated at 6.7 per cent 4. The level of poverty of elders in Romania was reduced to 35% in 2013 (study) 5. OECD: the life expectancy in the EU increased to over 79; in Romania is under 75 6. Survey: Presidency, Army, Church and the EU lead charts on people's trust in public institutions 1 Arundel House, 4 Palace Green London W8 4QD UK Phone: 0044 (0)20 7937 9666 Fax: 0044 (0)20 7937 8069 e-mail: [email protected] web site: www.london.mae.ro Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ CULTURE 1. Over 250 companies from Romania and abroad at the Gift Fair – Bucharest Christmas Shopping in Romexpo 2. Savarsin Castle, where the Royal Family spends the Winter Holidays 3. Maramures wooden churches, in the famous UNESCO World Heritage List 4. With record-high 33,000 tickets sold, star violinist Andre Rieu announces fourth concert in Bucharest POLITIC 1. Elected President Klaus Iohannis attended the National Day festivities on December 1 in Alba Iulia Romanian President-elect Klaus Iohannis attended the National Day festivities on December 1 in Alba Iulia (north-west of Bucharest). Klaus Iohannis arrived in Alba Iulia at around 11 a.m. to lay wreaths at the busts of King Ferdinand and Queen Maria, who accomplished the Great Union of December 1, 1918 that is celebrated on Monday. The president-elect attended a Te Deum officiated at the Reunification Cathedral and the military parade and afterwards he went to Alba Iulia City Hall, where he gave an interview to the foreign press. The official festivities began at 9:30 a.m. on Monday in Alba Iulia by wreath-laying at the statues of Ionel Bratianu and Iuliu Maniu, followed at 10:15 by flower-laying at the busts of King Ferdinand and Queen Maria and at Michael the Brave's statue at 10:30 a.m. The Te Deum is scheduled to begin at noon and the military parade will start at 12:30. 2. National Day parade: Over 2,800 military, 280 combat vehicles marche in Constitution Square Over 2,800 military and 280 combat vehicles with the National Defence Ministry (MApN), the Interior Affairs Ministry (MAI), the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) and the Dignitaries' Protection Service (SPP) have marched on 1st December in the Constitution Square, central Bucharest, in a parade dedicated to the National Day of Romania. The commander of this year's parade, Brigadier General Tomita-Catalin Tomescu, deputy of the Instruction and Doctrine Department Chief with the General Staff, opened the parade. The first unit 2 Arundel House, 4 Palace Green London W8 4QD UK Phone: 0044 (0)20 7937 9666 Fax: 0044 (0)20 7937 8069 e-mail: [email protected] web site: www.london.mae.ro Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ which entered the roundabout was the Red Scorpions 26 Infantry Battalion, followed by an international detachment formed of military of the French Army, the Republic of Moldova, Poland, Turkey and US marines. The parade continued with the march of the Calugareni 2 Infantry Battalion, the 495 Battalion of which the intervention forces are, including divers and paratroopers, the Military Intelligence Brigade, the Military Police representatives, the Navy and the Airforce representatives. The Airforce planes could not take part in the parade due to the bad weather. A regiment of women with the Romanian Army, the students of the Brasov-based Airforce Academy, those of the Mircea cel Batran Naval Academy, those of the Nicolae Balcescu Land Forces Academy and the pupils Detachment with the Dimitrie Cantemir National Military College of Breaza, marched in. Further on, in front of the almost 10,000 people attending the parade, have marched the detachment of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza Police Academy, the fighters detachment of the Vlad Tepes Special Intervention Brigade with the Romanian Gendarmerie and the detachments of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU). The parade continued in a first with the march of the students of the Vasile Lascar Police Agents School from Campina, followed by the SRI detachment, with its Anti-terror Brigade, the ones who make the security check on the airports, the honour guard of the Gendarmerie, while the Mihai Viteazul guard regiment executed a 'drill team' exercise. After this moment, the military technique of the motorized 1 Brigade followed, with URO VAMTAC armoured vehicles, Piranha III armoured personnel carrier, "Jderul" 84 M combat machines, "Zimbrul" APCs, TR 85 M1 "Bizonul" tanks, LAROM multiple rocket launcher, the GEPARD anti-aircraft artillery system, the anti-aircraft complex towed with 2 35 mm OERLIKON cannons, HUMVEEs, the Chevrolet Tahoe land vehicles, the Harris/Chevrolet radio stations and the surface-to-air rockets detachment with HAWK ground-based. The naval forces have marched with RIB ships, FULGERUL boats, Mobile installations for Launching the Rockets, armoured radio stations with frequency hopping on URO VAMTAC, and the Communications and Informatics Command have marched with ATBTU PANHARD and Dacia Duster vehicles, the ANCHOR satellite auto-station which ensures voice and data connections among any spots, Falcon radio auto-stations, the video-conferences' communication auto-station, the CRBN auto- special vehicles and the NATO deployable communication Module. Further on, the parade was filled with the march of the MAI structures, with 10 BMW motorcycles of the Traffic Police, a Porsche automobile for the road surveillance and control of the same Traffic Police, the SIAS special intervention vehicles, the Border Police with its ATVs, Dacia Duster, IVECO patrol trucks, thermo-vision filming special trucks on Land Rover Discovery vehicles, a Harpoon boat, RR boats towed by Dacia Duster, special trucks for dogs deployment mounted on Mitsubishi L200, followed by the Gendarmerie technics, with transport special trucks of the troops and those with water 3 Arundel House, 4 Palace Green London W8 4QD UK Phone: 0044 (0)20 7937 9666 Fax: 0044 (0)20 7937 8069 e-mail: [email protected] web site: www.london.mae.ro Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ cannons, special trucks with mobile communication systems and 4x4 vehicles with the Mountain Gendarmerie. The parade continued with the IGSU forces, meaning the water cannons special trucks, the emergency paramedics vehicle, the Emergency Mobile Resuscitation and Extrication Service (SMURD) vehicles, the HAZMAT special trucks for decontamination and intervention in disasters, the extrication special vehicles, pneumatic boats with divers, special trucks for extinguishing fires with water and foam and an auto-ladder for intervention at 70 metres high. Technics with the SRI endowment was present, too, with special vehicles of anti-terror intervention, the SPP marching units, the cavalry of the Mounted Gendarmerie, the Bucharest Local Police Mounted patrol, the parade being closed with the Honour Guard of the Mihai Viteazul 30 Regiment Guard and the Military Music Regiment. At the parade organised by the MApN, together with the MAI, SRI and SPP, were present the incumbent president Traian Basescu and the Prime Minister Victor Ponta, among the participants attending the ceremonies on the occasion of the National Day were also the National Defence minister, Mircea Dusa, the Interior Affairs minister, Gabriel Oprea and the Speaker of the Deputies' Chamber, Valeriu Zgonea. 3. PM Ponta: We'll have 15 priority directions of action in the government programme Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced that the government programme for 2015 - 2016 will have 15 priority directions of actions, a special accent being to be put on the fight against tax evasion, the European funds, the centralisation and development of the administrative capacities, the tax system. At the end of a ruling coalition's meeting, the