AGERPRES

The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) on Thursday agreed to take up of a notification by the opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) that Parliament's decisions to appoint interim general directors at the National Television Broadcasting Corporation (SRTV) and National Radio Broadcasting Corporation (SRR) are unconstitutional.

Liberal MP Alexandru Muraru, Government's Special Representative for Promoting Memory Policies, Combating Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia, announces that Parliament will hold a solemn meeting of the two chambers on 30 June to commemorate, for the first time in history, the victims of the June 1941's Pogrom in Iasi.

The volume of construction works has gone up by 5.7% as gross series during the first four months of the year, in comparison with the similar period of 2020, and as adjusted series, based on the number of working days and seasonality, by 2.1%, according to the data sent by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) to AGERPRES on Wednesday.

The West University of Timisoara (UVT) is present in the RUR Subject Rankings, the 2021 edition, in the domains "Natural Sciences" and "Technical Sciences." In the "Natural Sciences" domain, UVT takes first place at the national level in the Research Ranking of this domain, and at the world level occupies spot 376 out of 700 universities in this domain.

The authorities have activated the red plan for intervention, on Monday morning, after an accident that took one life and left 13 others wounded, on highway A1, before the Border Crossing Point Nadlac II, Arad County (west).

President of the Competition Council Bogdan Chiritoiu considers that the Romanian economy has performed surprisingly well in the pandemic and there has been an excellent ability to adapt on the part of the private sector. "2020 was clearly a different year. It is remarkable that sectors of the private economy have adapted very well.

MEP Corina Cretu, former European Commissioner for Regional Policy, expressed, on Friday, in Tulcea, her trust that all the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (PNRR) sent by member-states will be approved by the European Commission and encouraged the small and medium-sized enterprise owners to access structural funds.

Israel managed to fully open up the economy earlier this week, with the help of an intensive vaccination campaign and an application that allowed immunized people to have access to public places everywhere, Ohan Cohen, head of the Foreign Trade Administration at the Israeli Ministry of Economy, told AGERPRES in an interview.

The National Company for Energy Transport Transelectrica and the University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB) have signed a partnership through which they will establish and operationalise DigiTEL, the only integrated digital laboratory in Romania, for testing future technologies from the energy sphere, the company informs.

Feature film "Colectiv" directed by Romanian filmmaker Alexander Nanau has won the LUX 2021 Audience Award, according to an announcement made by the president of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, at the plenary session of the European body in Strasbourg.