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The Social Democratic Party (PSD) will present on Thursday the text of the censure motion against the Government, which will be made available for signature, announced the party's first vice-chair, Sorin Grindeanu. "Today, PSD will present the text of the censure motion. (...) PSD is the only party that has the power given by the number of parliamentarians to initiate a censure motion.

The economic growth of 2.9pct is due exclusively to investments and not to consumption, which is a premiere for Romania, Prime Minister Florin Citu said on Friday. "The INS (National Institute for Statistics) published details on economic growth in the first quarter of 2021.

Romania needs the "qualitative and quantitative improvement" in the field of diplomacy, and the country's representation must be carried out at all levels of interaction and communication, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Ludovic Orban said on Thursday at the 8th edition of the Bucharest Model NATO Conference.

The Palace of the Parliament will be illuminated in turquoise on Wednesday, on the occasion of Batten Disease Awareness Day.

The Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Ludovic Orban, welcomed on Friday the signing of a partnership between the Associations of Military Reservists from Romania and Germany, appreciating that it demonstrates a strengthening of bilateral relations.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bogdan Aurescu, will participate, on Friday, in the 131st meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE), which will take place in videoconference system, among the topics on the agenda being democracy, conflicts and crisis in Europe.

Chamber of Deputies' Speaker and National Liberal Party (PNL) leader Ludovic Orban reaffirmed that the party he represents supports the abolition of the Special Section for the Investigation of Justice Crimes (SIIJ) and expressed his hope that a formula agreed in this sense would be found in the coalition. "We are in the procedure of approving the law for the abolition of the Special Section.

Anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racism are topical dangers, which must be firmly countered by society, Senate President Anca Dragu said on Thursday, on the occasion of the Commemoration of the January 1941 Anti-Jewish Bucharest Pogrom. "Today we pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the Bucharest Pogrom, a series of persecutions and atrocities against the Jewish population.

The chairman of the National Committee for the Coordination of Activities on Vaccination Against SARS-CoV-2, Dr. Valeriu Gheorghita, announced on Tuesday that the appointment platform for the second stage of vaccination will be operational from January 15, 3:00 p.m.

Prime Minister Florin Citu said on Thursday that in 2020 the collapse of the economy generated by the health crisis was halted and "the fastest recovery in history after a period of crisis" was generated, adding that in 2021 there will be a solid growth. "In 2020 we halted the economic downturn caused by the health crisis and generated the fastest recovery in history after a period of crisis.