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  • August, 16, 2022

    August, 16, 2022

    MEDAL Romanian swimmer David Popovici won gold in the 200
    meter freestyle race of the European Aquatics Championships in Rome. Popvici,
    17, the world’s en titre champion, ended the race in one minute, 42 seconds and
    97 hundredths, a new world and European record. We recall that Popovici also
    walked away with gold from the 100 and 200 meter freestyle races of the World
    Championships in Budapest. The Romanian swimmer also got the title on Saturday
    night in the 100 meter freestyle race with a new world record of 46 seconds and
    86 hundredths. The Romanian swimmer is also expected to run in the 400 meter
    race on Wednesday.






    BUDGET The government in Bucharest is this week preparing the first budget adjustment
    in 2022, which has been described by the country’s Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca
    as positive. The Ministries of Finance, Labour and European Projects are to get
    more money and so are the Ministries of Healthcare, Energy, Transport, Justice
    and Agriculture. The Ministries of the Interior, the Environment and Culture have
    seen their funds trimmed as Finance Minister Adrian Caciu has announced that a
    key priority are the measures the Executive has taken in order to boost the economy
    and support the citizens against the backdrop of a soaring inflation rate. Among
    the aforementioned measures there are a support scheme aimed at offsetting
    growing prices in gas and electricity, state subsidies for fuel consumption in
    agriculture as well as credits for farmers. Under the new measures consolidated
    budget deficit is estimated to exceed 16 billion euros, which account for 5.8%
    of the GDP.










    EXAM Roughly 35 thousand students are presently taking the national
    baccalaureate exam in the autumn session, which kicks off today. 22 thousand of
    them have graduated this year and the exam’s final results are to be made
    public on September 3rd. The success rate in the first session of this exam
    held in July stood at 75% being the highest in the past 10 years.










    BORDER Over 1, 500, 000 people, Romanian and foreign
    nationals, have crossed Romania’s borders over August 12th and 15th the General
    Border Police Inspectorate has announced today. The most intense traffic has
    been reported at Romania’s border with Hungary. 13 thousand Ukrainian nationals
    entered Romania on Monday 0.2% more than in the previous day, which brings up to
    2 million the number of refugees that have crossed into Romania since the
    beginning of the conflict in February.










    UKRAINE
    A pro-Russia
    separatist court in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, has charged five foreign
    nationals, including a Swede, a Croat and a Brit, captured fighting alongside
    the Ukrainian forces with being mercenaries. According to Russian media the
    three could face a possible death sentence. We recall that authorities in
    Dontesk in June sentenced to death two British citizens and a Moroccan but
    didn’t apply the sentence yet. According to some reports, Ukrainian artillery
    has struck the headquarters of Russia’s shadowy Wagner paramilitary group of
    mercenaries in eastern Ukraine. The Wagner group was deployed to Crimea and
    Ukraine’s Donbas region in 2014, when Russia-backed forces ousted Ukrainian
    soldiers from areas they later declared to be part of Russia. Wagner units have
    also been deployed to Syria, Libya, Mali and the Central African Republic.
    Western intelligence links the group to Russian oligarch Yevgheny Prigozhin,
    who was dubbed Putin’s chef as his catering business has long helped President
    Putin and his armed forces.










    (bill)

  • David Popovici, Romania’s new hero

    David Popovici, Romania’s new hero

    Red carpet, officials and fans, lots of flowers, smiles, hugs and speeches – that was the atmosphere on Sunday night, when the Romanian delegation returned from the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest. The man who stole the show was the 17-year-old David Popovici, who made history in Budapest. At his first debut in suchlike events he was the first in the past 49 years to have become world champion in the 100 and 200-meter freestyle races. In Budapest, Popovici has also set two new world records for junior competitions. His team mate, Robert Glinta, has occupied the fifth position in the 50-meter backstroke race coming eighth in the 100-meter backstroke event. The double world champion has thanked all the fans for supporting him and confessed that he wants his performance to inspire many people to take up sports.



    David Popovici: “I would like to thank all those who believed in me, who have been supporting me and would also like to thank all the Romanians who were thrilled to watch my race on telly, to all those who came in person to watch me. It was superb in Budapest and I know that many would like to be in my place knowing they have the support of so many people. I am sincerely honored to represent this beautiful country and feel you are by my side.”


    David Popovici received 200,000 Euros worth of prize from the Romanian government, while president Klaus Iohannis decided to award the double world champion with the highest national order, Romanian Star in rank of knight and coach Adrian Radulescu with the national order of Merit in rank of knight.



    David is the model and hes going to motivate the entire country. We have the duty to build swimming pools, encourage this sport so that we may have many champions,” Sports Minister Eduard Novak has said. “The Romanian sport is in need of many things and the World Championships in Budapest should stimulate the government to invest in infrastructure” – says Camelia Potec, president of the Federation of Swimming and Modern Pentathlon.



    The opinion is shared by many who have repeatedly pointed to the shortage of funds in several sporting disciplines which led to weaker and weaker results in international competitions, where athletes from Romania used to be a force to be reckoned with. Even the world champion David Popovici himself said quote: ʺHopefully, the wave I have created will help the Romanian sport to make headway, because it clearly can do with a little bit of resuscitation.” This is a busy period for David who will next participate in the European Junior Championships in Romania, due over July 5 and 10, the European Championships in Italy and the World Junior Championships in Peru.


    (bill)

  • June 23, 2022 UPDATE

    June 23, 2022 UPDATE

    FUEL
    PRICES The ruling coalition has
    reached an agreement regarding an offset mechanism for retail fuel prices.
    After Thursday’s government meeting, PM Nicolae Ciuca announced that for the next
    3 months, starting on the 1st of July, retail fuel prices will be 0.5 leu per
    litre lower. Half of the offset package, which amounts to EUR 400 million, will
    be covered from the state budget, and the balance by companies operating in
    this sector. The mechanism will be regulated under a bill to be passed by the
    government next week.


    CORRUPTION The Romanian agriculture minister Adrian Chesnoiu announced
    stepping down and withdrawing from the Social Democratic Party over a
    corruption investigation. He asked the Chamber of Deputies to lift his
    parliamentary immunity and claimed he had not committed any offence or act of
    corruption. The National Anti-Corruption Directorate had previously requested
    the Chamber of Deputies to lift Chesnoiu’s immunity, in order for him to be
    prosecuted for abuse of office. Judicial sources told AGERPRES news agency on
    Thursday that the investigation concerns the rigging of exams for filling
    public positions.


    BULGARIA In Bulgaria, the Liberal PM Kiril Petkov’s
    cabinet was dismissed through a no-confidence vote, which pushes the country
    into a new political crisis, after 3 rounds of elections held last year, AFP
    and Reuters report. The coalition, formed in December after controversial
    Boiko Borisov’s 10 years in power, broke up in early June over disagreements
    concerning public spending and the country’s stand on North Macedonia’s EU
    accession negotiations. President Rumen Radev will invite parliamentary parties
    to negotiations for forming a new government. If they fail, Bulgaria’s
    Parliament will be dismantled and new elections will be held.

    MOLDOVA The
    state of emergency introduced in the Republic of Moldova on 24th
    February, following Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, was extended on Thursday by
    another 45 days. The request was tabled to Parliament by PM Natalia Gavriliţa, with
    a majority of 59 MPs voting in favour. The Opposition was against the measure,
    accusing the government of incompetence, Radio Chişinău reports. According to
    Moldova’s PM, the state of emergency had to be extended given the persistent
    risks related to Moldova’s energy supplies, border security and the Ukrainian
    refugee crisis.


    MEDAL The Romanian David Popovici, 17, is the second swimmer in history
    to have become world champion in the 200m and 100m freestyle events of the same
    edition of a championship. The athlete has broken three world junior records in
    the World Aquatics Championships underway in Budapest. Romania has another
    representative in the competition, Robert Glinta, who will compete on Friday in
    the 50 meter backstroke race. Glinta ended the 100m race on the eighth
    position. Another two Romanian athletes, Angelica Muscalu and Constantin
    Popovici, will be competing in the dive event of the competition. (AMP)

  • Hăbări ditu bana românească şi internaţională

    Hăbări ditu bana românească şi internaţională

    MEDALIA. Românlu David Popovici, 17 ani, easti doilu anutătoru ditu istorie cari agiumsi campion mondialu la probili di 200 și 1000 di meatri libiru ditu idyea ediție a unui campionat. Sportivlu surpă trei recorduri mondiale la juniori la Campionatele Mondiale di Nataţie, cari s’dizvărtescu Budapesta. România ari nica un reprezentantu tru competiție, Robert Glinţa, cari va s’antreacă viniri la proba di 50 di meatri pi păltări. Glinţa bitisi proba di 100 di meatri tamam pi poziţia a opta. Alță doi reprezentanță ali Românie, Angelica Muscalu și Constantin Popovici va s’concureadză tru proba di ahănduseri a competițillei adusă aminti ma ndzeană.



    VIZITĂ. Marcel Ciolacu, prezidentulu a Camerăllei a Deputaților ditu România faţi adză ună vizită Bruxelles tră muabeţ ofiţiale cu Roberta Metsola, prezidentulu a Parlamentului European și cu comisarlu tră lucru și ndrepturi suţiale, Nicholas Schmit. Oficialu român easti tutunăoară așteptat s’aibă muabeţ cu prezidintulu Camerei Diputaților cu Parlamentul belgian, cum și cu ministrul a lucărlui și Economiei ditu Belgia. Ciolacu va s’ţănă unu zboru tru arada ali andamasi ţi va u aibă cu lidirlli a Partidului Socialist European.



    ANDAMUSERI. Chiro di dauă dzăli, Bruxelles va s’ţănă summitul a lidirilor UE și ai Balcanilor ditu Ascăpitată, ună sesiune a Consiliului European și summitul euro. Pi agenda Consiliului European suntu dibaturli mutrinda ligăturli a blocului cu partenerii aprukeaţ ditu Europa, catandisea ditu Ucraina și căftărli di adirari ali Republică Moldova și Georgia. România easti reprezentată tru summitul lidirilor UE și tru Consiliul European di cătră prezidintulu a llei Klaus Iohannis, cari salută recomandarea a Comisiillei Europene tra s’da a Republicăllei Moldova și Ucraina statutul di candidate la UE. Comisia pricunuscu nădiili europene ale Georgiei, ama aestă văsilie nu tiñisi tuti condițiile tra s’aibă statutlu di v4silie candidată. Summitul euro cari va s’ţănă mâni va s’aibă tu arada di lucru catandisea economică a blocului și evoluțiile mutrinda uniunea bancară și piețele di capital.



    APOFASI. Coaliția di guvernământ ditu România a Agiumsi la un acord mutrinda un mecanism di compensari a păhadzloru la pompă tră combustibil. Aestu lucru lipseaşti dimăndat tu şcurtu kiro după sesiunea guvernamentală di adza și va s’intra tru practico di la 1 alunaru tră trei meşi. Mecanismul pripus di guvern va s’compenseadzăa cu ună sumă fixă ​​păhadzlli la pompă tru loc di un procent, iara compensația va s’hibă finanțată di la bugetul di stat și di la companiile ditu domeniu. Mecanismul va s’bagă bazele a unui act normativ pe cari guvernul va lu vulusească stămâna yinitoari.



    Autoru: Udălu a hăbărloru


    Armânipsearia: Taşcu Lala

  • June 23, 2022

    June 23, 2022

    MEDAL Romanian David Popovici, 17, is
    the second swimmer in history to have become world champion in the 200 and 1000
    meter freestyle events of the same edition of a championship. The athlete has
    broken three world junior records in the World Aquatics Championships underway
    in Budapest. Romania has another representative in the competition, Robert
    Glinta, who will compete on Friday in the 50 meter backstroke race. Glinta
    ended the 100 meter even on the eighth position. Another two Romanian
    representatives, Angelica Muscalu and Constantin Popovici will be competing in
    the dive event of the aforementioned competition.






    VISIT Marcel Ciolacu, president of the
    Chamber of Deputies in Romania is today paying a visit to Brussels for
    official talks with Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament and
    with the Commissioner for Work and Social Rights, Nicholas Schmit. The Romanian
    official is also expected to have talks with the president of the Chamber of
    Deputies with the Belgian Parliament as well as the Minister of Labour and
    Economy in Belgium. Ciolacu is also to deliver a speech during the meeting he
    will have with the leaders of the European Socialist Party.






    MEETINGS For two days Brussels will be
    seeing the summit of the leaders of the EU and the Western Balkans, a European
    Council session and the Euro summit. High on the European Council agenda are
    debates over the bloc’s relations with close partners in Europe, the situation
    in Ukraine, and the accession requests by the Republic of Moldova and Georgia.
    Romania is being represented in the EU leaders’ summit and the European Council
    by its president Klaus Iohannis, who hailed the recommendation of the European
    Commission to grant the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine the status of EU
    candidates. The Commission has acknowledged the European aspirations of
    Georgia, but this country hasn’t met all the conditions to get the statute of
    candidate country. The euro summit due tomorrow will have high on the agenda
    the economic situation of the bloc and the developments concerning the banking
    union and the capital markets.


    MEASURES The ruling coalition in
    Romania has reached an agreement regarding a mechanism to offset pump prices
    for fuel. This has to be announced shortly after the government session today
    and is to come into effect as of July 1st for three months. The mechanism
    proposed by the government will compensate with a fixed sum pump prices instead
    of a percentage and the compensation will be funded by the state budget and the
    companies in the field. The mechanism will lay the foundation for a normative
    act the government is to endorse next week.






    MOTION USR MPs in Romania have tabled a
    simple motion against the country’s Energy Minister whom they accuse of
    incompetence in running this ministry. According to USR, during the mandate of
    Minister Virgil Popescu, prices in fuel, energy and gas have been constantly on
    the rise. This simple motion against the energy minister will be debated upon
    on Monday in the Chamber of Deputies and the voting is expected the next day.






    (bill)

  • Gold for Romanian Swimming

    Gold for Romanian Swimming

    Romanian David Popovici is the new star of the
    world swimming after his victory in the 200-meter freestyle race of the World Aquatics
    Championships in Budapest on Monday night. The Romanian ended the race in one
    minute, 43 seconds and 21 hundredths, setting a new world record for junior
    contests.




    Popovici, who is only 17, has thus started off
    on the right foot in world competitions with a new title won in Olympic-size
    swimming pools. We recall that Tamara Costache also reaped gold for Romania in
    the 50-meter freestyle race in 1986 while Diana Mocanu became gold medalist in
    the 200-meter backstroke race in 2001. Romania now boasts three gold medals in
    these competitions, one silver and six bronze.




    Popovici, who signed up with Dinamo Bucharest
    sports club was followed by Sunwoo Hwang of South Korea and by Tom Dean of
    Britain in the race. According to sports papers, Popovici lived up to his
    status of odds-on favourite of the competition in Hungary. Popovici’s win is
    all the more so impressive as he managed to outperform Tom Dean, Olympic
    champion in Tokyo, where the Romanian came only fourth. US publication Swimming
    World Magazine wrote quote ‘there was a feeling that here was a talent as rare
    and as impactful as Ian Thorpe of Michael Phelps.




    According to Romanian TV channel Digi 24,
    Popovici shot to fame in July last year in Italy after he had won the European junior
    title in the 100-meter freestyle race with such a good time that brought him
    plane tickets for Tokyo Olympics. He was also voted the youngest athlete in
    Europe in 2021 being awarded the 2021 Piotr Nurowski ‘Best Summer European
    Young Athlete Prize during a ceremony held in Samorin, Slovakia at the General
    Assembly of the European Olympic Committees.


    Gazeta Sporturilor recalls that the time
    Popovici ended the race in Budapest is the fourth best in the history of the
    200-meter freestyle race. Only world-record holder Paul Biedermann and the
    legendary Michael Phelps and Yannick Agnel managed better scores. Popovici’s
    win is the best in the past decade. People at home believed in me! The medal
    is for them the athlete said shortly after his victory. For David Popovici the
    contest in Budapest is only the first major competition this summer as he is to
    also attend the European Junior Swimming Championships in Romania next month, the
    European Championships in Rome in August and the world Junior Swimming
    Championships in Lima in late August and early September.


    (bill)

  • Athlete of the Week

    Athlete of the Week




    This past weekend, the
    Romanian swimmer David Popovici won the gold in the 200m freestyle final of the
    European Short Course Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia. Popovici came
    first with 1:42:12. At the age of only 17, he thus won his first continental
    senior title, while also setting a new national record. Second and third came 2
    Dutch swimmers, Luc Kroon and Stan Pijnenburg.


    Popovici’s gold was
    the 3rd medal for Romania in this short course championship, after
    the silver and bronze won by Robert Glinţă in the 100m and 50m backstroke finals.
    I’m glad I could attend this European competition. We’ve been quite united and
    had a lot of fun. And I’m also happy to have written history for Romanian
    swimming, said Popovici upon his return to Romania. He is the first Romanian,
    in fact, to have won a European short course championship.


    For his outstanding
    performance, Radio Romania International has designated David Popovici the
    Athlete of the Week.


    David Popovici was
    born on 15 September 2004, in Bucharest, and has specialised in freestyle races,
    having set the juniors’ world records for 100m and 200m freestyle. Also in the
    junior category, he is the European champion in the 50m, 100m and 200m
    freestyle events. In the same European Championship edition, held in Rome, he
    won the silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay with his Romanian teammates.


    His best performance
    was his qualification in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where at 16 years of age, he
    came up 4th in the 200m freestyle final. I think in Tokyo I learned
    to better control my emotions, to focus on my lane and do what I do best,
    young Popovici also said upon his return from Kazan. (tr. A.M. Popescu)

  • Athlete of the Week

    Athlete of the Week




    This past weekend, the
    Romanian swimmer David Popovici won the gold in the 200m freestyle final of the
    European Short Course Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia. Popovici came
    first with 1:42:12. At the age of only 17, he thus won his first continental
    senior title, while also setting a new national record. Second and third came 2
    Dutch swimmers, Luc Kroon and Stan Pijnenburg.


    Popovici’s gold was
    the 3rd medal for Romania in this short course championship, after
    the silver and bronze won by Robert Glinţă in the 100m and 50m backstroke finals.
    I’m glad I could attend this European competition. We’ve been quite united and
    had a lot of fun. And I’m also happy to have written history for Romanian
    swimming, said Popovici upon his return to Romania. He is the first Romanian,
    in fact, to have won a European short course championship.


    For his outstanding
    performance, Radio Romania International has designated David Popovici the
    Athlete of the Week.


    David Popovici was
    born on 15 September 2004, in Bucharest, and has specialised in freestyle races,
    having set the juniors’ world records for 100m and 200m freestyle. Also in the
    junior category, he is the European champion in the 50m, 100m and 200m
    freestyle events. In the same European Championship edition, held in Rome, he
    won the silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay with his Romanian teammates.


    His best performance
    was his qualification in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where at 16 years of age, he
    came up 4th in the 200m freestyle final. I think in Tokyo I learned
    to better control my emotions, to focus on my lane and do what I do best,
    young Popovici also said upon his return from Kazan. (tr. A.M. Popescu)

  • July 13, 2020

    July 13, 2020

    BILL A bill
    regulating the quarantine and self-isolation in situations of epidemiological
    risk is now being debated upon by the decision-making Senate in Bucharest. The
    aforementioned bill has been endorsed by the government after the
    Constitutional Court in Bucharest ruled that self-isolation, quarantine and
    hospitalisation could not be imposed under a ministerial decision but under a
    law clearly regulating the issue. On Thursday night the Chamber of Deputies
    endorsed the document, which contained a lot of amendments than the Executive’s
    version. However, debates upon the aforementioned law in the legal committee were
    stopped in their tracks a couple of days ago by a request from the Senate’s
    interim president, Social-Democrat Robert Cazanciuc, who called for a viewpoint
    from the Liberal government and the Ministry of Justice concerning the
    mandatory hospitalisation of the infected persons and the physicians’
    deployment. The country’s Prime Minister Ludovic Orban has described the
    document as indispensable adding that postponing the Senate debates on the
    aforementioned bill is tantamount to a dramatic increase in the number of
    infections. According to Orban, the government’s objective is no further
    restrictions, but he has also cautioned against the worrying number of
    infections. On Sunday night scores of people protested in front of the
    government’s building in Bucharest against the bill on quarantine and
    self-isolation.










    COVID – 19 Authorities in Romania have reported another 413 new Covid infections
    bringing the total number close to 33, 000 since the beginning of the
    pandemic. 21,692 out of
    those who confirmed positive have been cured and left hospitals. 235 patients are in intensive care units while the death
    toll stands at 1,901. The number of Romanians abroad confirmed infected
    stands at 5,105,and the number of fatalities at 122.












    FENCING The International Fencing Federation has designated Romanian Ana
    Maria Popescu winner of the Women’s Epee Cup this year as many competitions
    could not be staged because of the Covid pandemic. The Romanian has been
    followed by Brazilian Nathalie Moellhausen and Sun Yiwen of China. Ana Maria
    has won the competition three times in the seasons of 2007-2008, 2008-2009 and
    2012-2013.














    TALKS Brussels is today seeing the seventh round of talks for a
    post-Brexit trade agreement. Chief negotiators David Frost of Britain and
    Michel Barnier of the EU have agreed to step up negotiations but have also agreed
    that the two sides are facing major issues such as competition. According to
    Radio Romania correspondent in London, the EU negotiator has said that his team
    will be carrying on talks with their British counterparts with patience,
    respect and determination but has cautioned against the inevitable changes in
    the relations between the two sides as of January 1st.








    RESTRICTIONS Authorities in Lithuania have banned the Romanians’
    access to this country due to the raising number of Covid-19 infections
    reported in Romania. Authorities in Vilnius are assessing the decision on a
    weekly basis though. Lithuania isn’t the only European country imposing
    restrictions to Romanian citizens. Greece is also asking tourists to produce a
    negative Covid test taken in the past 72 hours at the border whereas Austria requires
    Covid tests not older than 4 days. Other European countries like Finland, Malta,
    Slovakia, Estonia, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Hungary have resorted
    to other measures such as quarantine or self-isolation. Romanians have so far been
    imposed travel restrictions in 20 European countries






















    (translated by bill)

  • A la une de la presse roumaine – 16.02.2015

    A la une de la presse roumaine – 16.02.2015

    Les noms de 4 ministres reviennent dans tous les journaux parus ce lundi en Roumanie. Ils font tous l’objet de dossiers de corruption. A part cela c’est la journée des sondages dans la presse roumaine.