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00:00:40Good morning Romania, it's 7 o'clock on a Monday, October
00:00:4312th. Rain is coming our way. Umbrellas open faster
00:00:47than government negotiations. Trump agrees with Putin on
00:00:50diesel. Until yesterday, Russia had to be isolated. Today, it can
00:00:53deliver. Principles have reached the pump and are sold by the liter. Ukraine counts
00:00:57victims, America watches prices, and the Kremlin seeks
00:01:01clients. We count statements. The designated prime minister seeks
00:01:04votes, parties seek conditions, Romanians, well, they seek an
00:01:08explanation. Every leader has a red line. From all these red
00:01:11lines, the country would need at least one direction. Who still
00:01:15understands the world? We are asked to be patient with politics and have money for
00:01:19all its consequences? To accept that the enemy can become a supplier,
00:01:22but the neighbor in parliament remains impossible to bear. We begin
00:01:26to see the most important events of this morning.
00:01:34Three people died and two were seriously injured in a road accident
00:01:37on DN67 in Mihăiești,
00:01:40Vâlcea county. Several rescue teams intervened at
00:01:44the scene. Designated Prime Minister Luca Niculescu
00:01:47continues negotiations for the formation of the new government. Today he has scheduled meetings with
00:01:51USR and minorities. After last week he spoke with
00:01:54PSD, PNL and UDMR. By Thursday, Niculescu must finalize
00:01:58the governing program and the list of ministers.
00:02:02A cold morning at this hour, even rainy in the south of the country. Moreover,
00:02:05meteorologists have issued a yellow code for unstable
00:02:08weather. We'll have details in a few moments.
00:02:19quantities will be 30-50
00:02:24Serious road accident in Mihăiești, Vâlcea
00:02:27county. Attention, there are images that may affect you emotionally. Three
00:02:31people died and two were seriously injured in the hospital. The accident involved
00:02:35two cars with five people inside. Three of the
00:02:38victims remained trapped and firefighters intervened to extract them.
00:02:42Two of the extricated people were conscious and cooperative, but
00:02:46the third was declared deceased. The two seriously
00:02:49injured victims were transported to the emergency unit in
00:02:52Vâlcea. Firefighters, SMURD teams and ambulances intervened at
00:02:55the scene.
00:02:59The weather is getting much colder and the mild autumn until now and the
00:03:03generous sunshine of recent weeks are becoming a memory. Rains will gradually
00:03:06cover most of the country, and the counties around
00:03:09the capital enter a yellow code for abundant precipitation. Meteo-sensitive
00:03:13people feel such changes. The explanation is primarily
00:03:17biological. Natural light regulates the body's internal clock,
00:03:20and less light can alter melatonin
00:03:23secretion.
00:03:25After an October start with temperatures higher than the seasonal norm, the weather is changing
00:03:29radically. Rains will cover most of the country, and temperatures will drop even
00:03:33by over 10°. In Bucharest and a few other counties in Muntenia and Oltenia,
00:03:37as well as for the Curvature Carpathians area, there is a yellow code for abundant
00:03:40rains. With the penetration of a very cold
00:03:44air mass from northern latitudes, temperatures tend
00:03:47to drop significantly, by over
00:03:5110°, and we will reach
00:03:53a short time. The Kharkiv thermal values generally between 11 and
00:03:5717°, and minimums will drop even
00:04:00below freezing point. On the other hand, there will also be rains.
00:04:04The change in weather can affect meteo-sensitive people. Fewer hours of natural
00:04:07light in the autumn and winter months can disrupt the circadian rhythm, which
00:04:11influences serotonin and melatonin levels, and this changes good
00:04:15mood, energy, and sleep. For many people, such reactions to weather changes
00:04:19do not exist, but others feel them seriously. Not yet, at this age, no,
00:04:22I hope not later either. No, no, we try to draw energy from
00:04:26everything, from any activity. We can say that
00:04:30a change is observed in our state, in our
00:04:33mental state, so to speak, in the sense that we inevitably become more
00:04:37melancholic, more depressed. Seasonal
00:04:41affective disorder is a form of depression that reappears at the same time of year, but
00:04:45doctors warn that not all autumn fatigue is asthenia and not all bad mood
00:04:49is seasonal depression. A study
00:04:52showed that serotonin in the brain decreases
00:04:55in winter. This causes fatigue, drowsiness, and
00:04:59cravings for sweets. Fatigue that doesn't go away
00:05:02can also have other causes, such as anemia, vitamin
00:05:06B12 deficiency, thyroid problems,
00:05:10diabetes, or lack of sleep. Among the easy
00:05:14solutions available to meteo-sensitive people are exposure to
00:05:17sun and fresh air, any form of exercise, including walks, a
00:05:20diet with more vitamins, and necessarily restful
00:05:23sleep.
00:05:25Winter is knocking, and the wave of respiratory viruses is starting to claim
00:05:29more and more victims among the population. Family doctors
00:05:32warn that hospitals and clinics are filling up with patients with severe
00:05:35fever, causing whole days of absence from
00:05:38work and serious complications for children and the elderly. Doctors
00:05:42insist that the most effective method of protection against severe forms of
00:05:46illness remains timely influenza vaccination, before the outbreak
00:05:49of the seasonal epidemic. The vaccine is free or compensated for
00:05:53vulnerable categories, including people with chronic diseases, children
00:05:57and the elderly, and can be prescribed directly by the family doctor.
00:06:00Specialists recommend that citizens avoid crowds, maintain rigorous
00:06:04hand hygiene, and consult a doctor immediately at the
00:06:08first symptoms of illness, without resorting to antibiotic treatments based on
00:06:12hearsay. Here will be today's perfumes, clothes and
00:06:15cosmetics bought with institutional money, but also contracts
00:06:18worth millions of lei awarded directly, these are the irregularities
00:06:22reported at the National Administration of Meteorology following
00:06:25checks by the control body of the Ministry of Environment. Diana
00:06:28Buzoianu calls for the resignation of the leadership and announces that the report will be sent to
00:06:32the General Prosecutor's Office and the Court of Accounts. ANM Director Elena
00:06:35Mateescu claims that she did not use the institutional card and did not
00:06:39approve illegal acquisitions. She states that she ordered an internal
00:06:43audit and notified the police already in August after the discovery
00:06:46of some irregularities. Last night, in the show "Corridors of Power" on TVR Info,
00:06:50the Minister of Environment spoke about contracts that would have been
00:06:53awarded directly to two companies. Diana Buzoianu claims that
00:06:57the procurement department is under Elena Mateescu's direct
00:07:00authority and that she would have signed the contested
00:07:03acquisitions.
00:07:06The control body actually brought to light many more
00:07:09problems than just this part of
00:07:13unjustified expenses from cards.
00:07:16One of the essential things they uncovered was that in recent years,
00:07:20contracts worth millions were given by direct
00:07:24acquisition to two companies
00:07:27affiliated with ANM, even though there are very clear
00:07:30limits for what you can do by direct
00:07:34acquisition, an amount of 27,000 RON. So
00:07:38practically, we see systematically how money was
00:07:41used, including to favor, let's
00:07:45say, some crony companies close to this institution.
00:07:49And I just want to mention that Ms. Mateescu, the director,
00:07:53has the procurement department under her direct
00:07:56subordination, so all these acquisitions
00:08:00were signed by her at some point,
00:08:04no matter how much she tries to exclude herself from this
00:08:06process. Today, designated Prime Minister Luca
00:08:10Niculescu enters his second week of negotiations with one of the most difficult
00:08:14meetings, USR. After discussions with PSD, PNL and
00:08:17UDMR, the designated prime minister tries to find out if he can gather the
00:08:21233 necessary votes and says
00:08:25that he wants to have the governing program and the list of
00:08:29ministers ready by Thursday. USR, however, comes with a complicated
00:08:32condition: it does not want PSD ministers in a cabinet
00:08:35that it would support. This forces
00:08:39Niculescu to find a formula that does not lose precisely
00:08:42the party without which the majority is very difficult to build, because
00:08:46PSD has already put its own conditions on the table.
00:08:49The Social Democrats demand a political government,
00:08:52not a purely technocratic one, and presented a list of
00:08:56priorities: no new tax increases next year,
00:08:59pension indexation, elimination of CASSS for certain
00:09:02categories, payment of state arrears to companies,
00:09:06budgetary rectification and administrative reform. The stakes
00:09:09for Luca Niculescu are to take on enough
00:09:12of these demands to get the PSD votes without losing
00:09:16the support of the other parties. And the designated prime minister has
00:09:19already started to outline what he wants to do. He spoke about
00:09:23pension indexation with priority for low
00:09:26incomes, resumption of the unitary wage law, measures for
00:09:30economic recovery, protection of purchasing power, and preparation
00:09:34of the budget for next year. But he also has a limit: the Romanian
00:09:37deficit remains under pressure from markets and rating agencies, and any
00:09:41new promise must come with real money behind it. PNL says
00:09:45it can support this government, but
00:09:48does not want to enter a cabinet together with PSD. UDMR is
00:09:52open to support, including from outside the executive, and AUR
00:09:55announced a vote against. And after USR, Niculescu also discusses with
00:09:59minorities and parliamentary groups. The last attempt at
00:10:02government, you know, stopped at 182 votes. The necessary
00:10:05threshold is 233 votes.
00:10:09So, today's discussion with USR alone does not decide the government. But
00:10:12it can tell if Niculescu manages to build a bridge
00:10:16between the almost incompatible conditions
00:10:19of the parties. If not, by Thursday he may have a program and a
00:10:22list of ministers, but not yet
00:10:25the necessary majority to reach Victoria
00:10:28Palace. A busy day for the former independent
00:10:31candidate in the presidential elections. Călin Georgescu has
00:10:35a packed schedule from the early hours of the morning. At 8:00 he will be
00:10:38taken to Dicot where IT searches continue. An
00:10:42hour later he will arrive at the Bucharest Tribunal, where he will ask for the replacement of preventive
00:10:46arrest with judicial control. And at
00:10:4912:00 he is expected at the Bucharest Court of Appeal, where a new
00:10:53hearing is scheduled in the case in which he is accused of attempted coup
00:10:56d'état.
00:11:00The energy truce announced by Donald Trump did not prevent new Russian
00:11:04attacks on Ukraine. A power plant in Kharkiv was hit just
00:11:07hours after the American president's message. In Kyiv,
00:11:11half of the city was left without electricity, and residents are
00:11:14warned that they could be without power, heating, and
00:11:18water for days. Pope Leo will undergo surgery after doctors
00:11:22discovered a nodule in one of his lungs. The intervention will take
00:11:25place in the coming days, and recovery is expected to take about a
00:11:29week. During this time, the sovereign pontiff's audiences and official
00:11:33activities will be suspended. We'll detail everything
00:11:35immediately.
00:11:43Yes, it's Monday morning, the weather is changing, it has already changed
00:11:47radically and will change in most
00:12:25northwest and southwest of the country temperatures remain pleasant, but in
00:12:29the rest, the weather will cool significantly. The sky will have
00:12:31clouds and it will rain in most of Oltenia, Muntenia
00:12:35and Moldova, and isolated in the other regions. We expect
00:12:39abundant showers in the south and in the mountain area, and the water
00:12:44liters per square meter. At altitudes above
00:12:471500 m, there will be sleet and snow, and
00:12:50the wind will intensify on
00:12:54the crests. It is in western Oltenia, eastern Muntenia,
00:12:58Dobrogea, southern Moldova and Al Banat with speeds generally
00:13:02of 45-50 km/h.
00:13:05Well, it's quite a cold morning, it will get even colder during the day.
00:13:09In the depressions we have frost and fog, and at this
00:13:12moment it's 10° in Suceava, the clouds have already covered the sky and
00:13:16it has started to rain. In Iași we have 13°, Constanța here
00:13:2016°, in the capital,
00:13:23currently we have 8-9°, but
00:13:26temperatures will rise to 15°. In
00:13:30Craiova 8°, Timișoara 8°,
00:13:33today, Oradea, 8°, Cluj, Napoca, 9°,
00:13:36Sibiu, 10°, and
00:13:39temperatures will rise to 12° by noon.
00:13:42Today we will have highs between
00:13:4413° in depressions and 23°
00:13:48in Dobrogea. Well, the sun will
00:13:52appear in the sky at some point at
00:13:557:26 minutes and will set at
00:13:5818:36.
00:14:14Donald Trump wrote, lasted
00:14:18thermal power plant was the target of a massive attack approximately three hours after
00:14:22the American president's post. We warn you that the following
00:14:25images and information may emotionally affect you. Shortly after
00:14:28this new attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, at least three
00:14:32people died and 25 were injured in a strike
00:14:36on Kharkiv's suburbs. Among the victims were
00:14:39three children. Several apartments, cars, and a grocery store
00:14:42were destroyed. Moreover, Ukraine had no information at any
00:14:46time about the energy truce announced by Trump, a high-ranking
00:14:50official cited by Kyiv media stated. The capital of
00:14:54Ukraine is on alert after half of the city was left
00:14:57without electricity. A high-voltage main
00:15:00was damaged after an attack launched by the Russians, and water
00:15:04pressure dropped throughout the network. Residents were warned to prepare
00:15:07for at least three days without electricity, heating,
00:15:11or running water.
00:15:15The most extensive list of sanctions against Russia is today submitted
00:15:18to the attention of the foreign ministers of the European Union, meeting in
00:15:22Luxembourg. Around 1600 measures
00:15:25target only Moscow's defense industry, construction
00:15:28companies and organizations, shipbuilding, aviation, electronics, and the
00:15:32aerospace sector. This is the largest list of new sanctions
00:15:36ever presented for analysis at the community bloc level. On
00:15:40today's meeting agenda are also the escalation of Russia's hybrid campaign
00:15:44and security challenges in the Black Sea. Romania will also
00:15:47welcome, through the voice of the Foreign Minister, the opening of new negotiation
00:15:51chapters for Moldova and
00:15:53Ukraine.
00:15:56Romania asks Ukraine to preserve the current network of schools with Romanian
00:16:00language instruction. The request comes in the context of the Ukrainian education
00:16:03reform, which from next year could drastically reduce the number of Romanian
00:16:06high schools. At the same time, the Parliament in Kyiv is expected to debate a new law
00:16:10on national minority rights, important for
00:16:13negotiations for accession to the European Union. The project is supported
00:16:16by the Hungarian minority, but causes dissatisfaction in the Romanian
00:16:20community in Ukraine. And President Maia Sandu also asked Kyiv to
00:16:23preserve Romanian
00:16:24high schools.
00:16:39high school after 11th grade. From next year, the secondary
00:16:42cycle will include 9th grade. Then there will
00:16:46be three years of high school. In the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine, there are now
00:16:5044 high schools with Romanian-language instruction. Next year's reform
00:16:54stipulates that only 15 Romanian high schools will remain
00:16:58until 12th grade, the remaining 29 will be
00:17:02gymnasiums, meaning up to 9th grade. The Romanian high school in
00:17:05Crasna is in a pilot project with 12
00:17:09classes, while the high school in Suceveni will become a gymnasium with
00:17:12nine classes. Maria and Alisa are students here in 9th
00:17:16grade. From next year they will be forced to commute to another
00:17:20locality to continue their studies in Romanian.
00:17:23I would still like to stay here in my high school, in
00:17:27my native village, because I have spent so many
00:17:30years here, I want to continue
00:17:33my studies here in my mother tongue, not to go elsewhere.
00:17:38Marinela is the mother of another 9th grade student from Suceveni High School.
00:17:41From next year, she will no longer be able to study
00:17:45here. Continuing
00:17:48to study in another locality
00:17:51implies daily commuting for the children, which
00:17:55no one guarantees me that during
00:17:58the journeys the children
00:18:01will be safe during alarms.
00:18:05And teachers are also dissatisfied that their high school remains only
00:18:09a gymnasium. I am not against reforms, no,
00:18:12but anyway, I want the children to finish,
00:18:16if they started here in first grade, to finish. Romania has
00:18:20officially asked Ukraine to maintain the existing number of schools with
00:18:23Romanian language instruction and to avoid regressive
00:18:26measures. Our goal now is to preserve our historic
00:18:30network of educational schools.
00:18:34Exceptions should be applied to minorities.
00:19:0798 communes in Suceava county, look,
00:19:11not every one of your communes has a
00:19:14high school, but
00:19:17gymnasiums. The TVR team carried out these filmings in
00:19:20the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine as part of the "Romanian Presences" project of
00:19:23TVR International, co-financed by the Department for
00:19:27Romanians Everywhere. A more extensive report on the education
00:19:30reform in Ukraine will be broadcast on TVR International
00:19:34soon.
00:19:37drastic measures adopted in Europe to protect the mental health of children.
00:19:41The Greek government has launched a revolutionary bill that aims to restrict
00:19:44children's and adolescents' access to social networks and
00:19:48online entertainment platforms. The legislative
00:19:51initiative provides for the mandatory age verification of users
00:19:54through secure digital systems and the prohibition of autonomous accounts for
00:19:58children under a certain age, without parental consent. The decision comes in
00:20:02the context of the alarming increase in cases of cyberbullying,
00:20:06screen addiction, and attention problems among
00:20:09young people. The Hellenic model could be adopted at
00:20:13the level of the entire European Union. Authorities are seeking a balance
00:20:17between the digital security of minors and freedom of access to
00:20:20information.
00:20:25Conflict over the future European budget and Romania could be directly
00:20:28affected. The Irish Presidency of the Union wants an
00:20:328% reduction compared to the Commission's proposal for the next seven
00:20:36years. Other countries, led by Germany, want an even smaller
00:20:39budget. France, on the other hand, advocates for an increase in community finances, together with
00:20:4317 other beneficiary states of European funds. Romania will
00:20:47oppose the cuts.
00:20:51the rotating presidency of the European Union proposed an 8%
00:20:55reduction in the European Commission's budget for the period
00:20:582028-2034. The amount would be
00:21:021.6 trillion euros. This is a compromise
00:21:05formula. Six countries, led by Germany, those that contribute
00:21:08substantially to the community budget, demand even larger
00:21:11reductions of hundreds of millions of euros. Romanian MEPs
00:21:14fear that key areas for Romanian infrastructure and economy
00:21:18would benefit from much smaller funding in
00:21:21the coming years. Romania currently
00:21:24depends on European Funds for public investments.
00:21:28Six out of ten public investments in Romania were made with
00:21:32European money, because these European funds translated into
00:21:36modernized schools and hospitals, as well as funding for farmers.
00:21:39And in this proposal, it is clear that cohesion policy and
00:21:43the common agricultural policy would be the policies that would
00:21:47suffer the most. I am the author
00:21:50of the proposal to tax
00:21:54online betting platforms. Only this proposal would bring to
00:21:57the common European budget approximately 24
00:22:00billion euros, an amount that corresponds to
00:22:04the Erasmus program. Other sources of funding could come from
00:22:07taxing cryptocurrencies, as well as from deferring loan payments
00:22:11made by the European Commission under the Recovery and Resilience
00:22:14Mechanism, more precisely from the time of the pandemic. Together with
00:22:1816 other countries, Romania
00:22:23wants to negotiate a more solid budget for the coming years.
00:22:27Romania will certainly reject this proposal for cuts from
00:22:30the Irish presidency, because it goes even below the proposal
00:22:34of the European Commission. We,
00:22:37in the European Parliament, asked for an increase of this budget by
00:22:4010%. I think we will enter a very tough negotiation stage
00:22:44between member states and the European Union, which cannot do more with less
00:22:48money. The multi-annual budget of the European Union must be voted by all
00:22:5227 member states to be adopted. Heads of state and
00:22:55government should reach a compromise by the end of this
00:23:17published in The Lancet says that nuclear war
00:23:21and the abusive use of artificial intelligence could threaten the existence of
00:23:24humanity by 2100. The authors
00:23:26state, however, that the probability of these scenarios remains still
00:23:30low. The Lancet Commission on global health
00:23:33threats, consisting of 35 experts,
00:23:37analyzed hundreds of risks and chose for the
00:23:41period 2025-200
00:23:43according to Mediafax, only two can lead to the extinction
00:23:47of the species: a nuclear conflict that would cause
00:23:50global destruction and the malicious use of artificial
00:23:54intelligence for biological weapons. The list also includes
00:23:57air pollution, pandemics, antibiotic resistance, smoking,
00:24:01hypertension, obesity, and mental health
00:24:04problems. The figures that can affect are those about
00:24:08climate and international aid. Limiting global warming to
00:24:111.8° instead of 4.4° could
00:24:15save 1.89 billion healthy life
00:24:19years. A drastic reduction in health aid would
00:24:22cost up to 1.5 billion years,
00:24:25almost 70% of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
00:24:29Christopher Murray, co-chair of the commission, stated, quoted by The Guardian,
00:24:33that the decisions of today's leaders shape the health of future
00:24:36generations. Romania is doing poorly in many of these risks;
00:24:40avoidable mortality exceeds 500
00:24:44deaths per 10,000 inhabitants, almost double the European average of
00:24:47258.
00:24:50Air pollution causes over 108 deaths per 10,000
00:24:53inhabitants per year, according to the European Environment Agency cited by the journal,
00:24:57and health receives approximately
00:25:005.8% of GDP compared to about 10%
00:25:04which is the average in the European Union. The report does not
00:25:07create panic. Ibrahim Abuqar, a member of the commission, says
00:25:11that the goal is to provide decision-makers with information about risks
00:25:14that can be reduced through public policies. The assessment will be
00:25:17updated annually. The disappearance of humanity
00:25:20is unlikely, but some of the risks in this report
00:25:23are already killing more people in Romania than in the rest of Europe,
00:25:27and that is something that should make us think.
00:25:41The World Health Organization claims that the reasons why
00:25:45an employee of a laboratory in Siberia died of pneumonia and
00:25:48no case of plague has been confirmed remain unclear. Russia officially
00:25:52announced that the results of the analyses performed on both the body of
00:25:55the deceased and those who came into contact with her
00:25:59are negative for pneumonic plague and other dangerous
00:26:02pathogens. However, the analyses cannot be independently verified, and
00:26:06least regarding official
00:26:09information. Globally, between 2019 and
00:26:132025, over 3800 suspected cases
00:26:16of plague have been reported, mainly in Southern Africa. The disease has never
00:26:20been eradicated and persists in animals. The difference
00:26:23from the Middle Ages is that now there are much more efficient diagnostic
00:26:27methods and
00:26:28treatments.
00:26:31Pope Leo will undergo surgery after doctors discovered
00:26:35a nodule in one of his lungs. The announcement was made
00:26:38by the Pontiff himself, who said that the intervention will take place in the coming
00:26:42days. He specified that the nodule was discovered in time and
00:26:45was precisely located. The Vatican explained that post-operative
00:26:49recovery will take one week, during which all
00:26:53official activities and audiences of the Pope will be
00:26:55suspended. The visit scheduled to Latin America at
00:26:59the beginning of next month remains valid. Doctors are optimistic
00:27:02that the 71-year-old Pontiff will recover by
00:27:06then.
00:27:137:27 minutes. We will immediately review some
00:27:17headlines from the domestic and international press. And we start with, in fact, Hungro
00:27:20which writes that changes in apartments could double
00:27:23the tax, for example, if you enclosed the balcony without legal
00:27:27documents, you could wake up to a 100% increase in
00:27:30local taxes. The new code of
00:27:33territorial planning, urbanism and constructions introduces
00:27:37severe fiscal sanctions for unauthorized works and there are very, very many such cases.
00:27:41Der Speagle writes that a gang of Romanians committed 29
00:27:44burglaries in Germany, and with the stolen money they bought
00:27:48luxury houses and gold bars. Today begins
00:27:51the trial against six of the suspects, note the journalists. According
00:27:55to prosecutors, the suspects are between 20 and 47 years old and
00:27:58operated especially in the states of Saxony Anhalt, Bavaria and Brandenburg.
00:28:02BBC presents the story of a family from Great Britain who
00:28:06sold everything they had and left the world. Although they had a
00:28:10beautiful house, solid careers and even a small business. The two spouses
00:28:13took their three children and went to Indonesia. Now
00:28:17their belongings fit into a few
00:28:18backpacks.
00:28:26Drivers who want to buy hybrid cars from China might have to
00:28:29wait longer for some brands and models.
00:28:34comes from car dealers after the European Union and China reached an agreement to reduce
00:28:37exports to the common market. The measure was expected by major
00:28:41European car manufacturers, given that the market share of Chinese
00:28:45hybrid cars has increased significantly in recent
00:28:47years. Gheorghe Ion is from Ploiești and would like
00:28:51to buy a Chinese hybrid car. He came to the Bucharest
00:28:54Auto Show to see what offers the dealers have. He says he has several
00:28:58reasons why he turned to Chinese manufacturers.
00:29:02Firstly, the price seems more accessible than cars from
00:29:06Europe, they seem more accessible in terms of price, they offer
00:29:09a greater number of kilometers in electric autonomy than
00:29:13what we were used to in the European market. In recent years, Romanian
00:29:17drivers have become increasingly interested in Chinese cars. Only in
00:29:21September, out of over 1100 new cars
00:29:24registered in our country, almost 1900, which is approximately
00:29:2717% of the total, belonged to Chinese
00:29:31brands. Moreover, a major Chinese car manufacturer
00:29:34rose to fourth place in sales. This is shown by the latest
00:29:38official statistics. And in Europe, the market share of vehicles
00:29:42from China has grown substantially. For Plugin hybrid cars, it has
00:29:46risen from 2% in 2024 to
00:29:4925% in the first 6 months of this year, so
00:29:53authorities have taken measures to protect the local industry.
00:29:56The European Union has reached an agreement with China to limit
00:30:00exports of hybrid cars to the market.
00:30:33in Europe, so that they have a production line
00:30:37in Europe as well, could stimulate future
00:30:40sales, because existing
00:30:44customers could purchase the
00:30:47current models. Ultimately, the buyer will have the final say, because as long as the commercial
00:30:50offer is more competitive, the buyer
00:30:54will set the trend. Representatives of the European
00:30:57automotive industry expect the trade agreement to...