Israel lends Romania a helping hand – donates 40 oxygen concentrators
The difficult situation Romanian hospitals are facing has convinced other countries to help. Yesterday, ten oxygen concentrators have arrived from Israel, the first in a series of 40 such equipment. The machines will be distributed to the medical facilities that treat COVID patients.
David Saranga, the Israeli Ambassador to Romania: Romania is a true friend to Israel and, for that reason, the state of Israel decided to help a friend. Unfortunately, Romania is going through a difficult time because of the pandemic and needs support, and that is what we are here for. The state of Israel makes this donation of 40 oxygen concentrators, that will help treat patients. It isn’t easy to find concentrators these days.
Meanwhile, other six COVID patients, in a critical condition, have been transferred yesterday to medical units in Germany, to get treatment.
Romania will be the first country in the world where the United States will implement the technology of small modular nuclear reactors
Romania will be the first country in the world where the United States will implement the technology of small modular nuclear reactors. President Klaus Iohannis and the special representative of the American president for climate, John Kerry, have decided last night, at the climate summit in Scotland, that by 2028 Romania will include in the national system of producing energy this type of reactors, and a declaration of the White House indicates that this collaboration will lead to creating up to 30,000 jobs in the two countries.
President Klaus Iohannis has explained that this kind of extended collaboration with the United States, on developing technologies, production, operational support services, must be taken to other domains, especially in renewable energy and green mobility. Washington sees in the technology of small modular reactors a solution to decarbonize. An opinion shared by Romania. It’s just that, so far, The European Union hasn’t yet clearly labeled nuclear energy as clean energy and, so, it does not finance it. The European executive has promised a reevaluation of the classification, that will be presented in November. At the climate summit in Glasgow, president Klaus Iohannis said that Romania has reduced its carbon emissions by 64% between 1989 and 2019.
Klaus Iohannis: There is no silver bullet to eliminate climate change, but a set of interconnected measures can help us. We will fight climate change using solutions based on nature, because we will use 57,000 hectares of new forest, financed by the Recovery National Plan, to retain carbon and fight deforestation.
Klaus Iohannis and John Kerry have also established a consolidation of the bilateral cooperation concerning storing energy.
PNL leaders have decided to make the negotiations with the democratic forces of the Parliament more flexible
PNL leaders have decided last night, in the National Political Office to make negotiations to form a government, with PSD and USR, more flexible. PNL leader, the interim prime minister Florin Cîţu, said that liberals have one condition: the prime minister has to be a liberal. The leadership of the party has also decided that the negotiation team will include the party leader, the four first deputy chairmen and the secretary general. This morning, PSD has announced that they are open to join the governing, but, so far, the social-democrats don’t have a, official position regarding the conditions to join the new government. On the other hand, USR has reiterated that PNL has to decide if it counts on the PSD or if it wishes to rebuild the governing coalition.
Alexandra Ioniță
