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  • March 27, 2021

    March 27, 2021

    COVID-19 Authorities in Romania have announced fresh restrictions amid an
    increasing number of Covid-19 infections. The new restrictions are to come into
    effect on Sunday, and under a government decision released on Friday night,
    every Romanian region will have to report their infection rates. An infection
    rate of 4 per thousand will force shops and service providers to close down at
    18 hours while a curfew is to be observed starting 20 hours during the weekend.
    A rate of 7.5 cases per thousand means the new restrictions can be applied the
    entire week not only at the weekend. Roughly 59 hundred fresh Covid-19
    infections were reported in Romania on Saturday out of 37 thousand tests
    conducted. One year on from the onset of the pandemic 930 thousand people were
    infected in Romania, which reported a death toll of 23 thousand. The number of Romanians
    who got at least one dose of the anti-Covid vaccine stands at roughly 1,900,000.
    Half of these have also got the booster dose.






    CHISINAU Parliament in the neighboring Romanian-speaking Republic of Moldova is
    today marking through a solemn session 103 years since the union of Basserabia
    with Romania. The event is to be attended by the presidents of Science Academia
    in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, leading figures of culture and MPs. On
    March 27th 1918, towards the end of WWI, Basserabia’s Legislature unanimously
    voted the union of this province with the Romanian kingdom. It was the first
    stage in the process of creating the unitary Romanian state, which was
    completed through the joining of other Romanian regions, such as Bukovina,
    Transylvania, Banat, Crisana and Maramures, which until then had been part of
    Austria-Hungary. In the summer of 1940, through an ultimatum, USSR annexed
    Basserabia and northern Bukovina, Romanian territories, which today belong to
    the former Soviet republics of Moldova and Ukraine.






    DST
    Daylight Saving Time begins tonight in Romania when the clocks are to be set
    one hour forward and the difference between the local time and GMT will be
    three hours. DST was first introduced in Romania back in 1932 and this might be
    the last hour change as the European Parliament in 2019 voted in favour of
    renouncing this measure inside the EU. Each member state is to decide whether
    to scrap the DST or not. The countries willing to keep the summer hour will
    make the last change tonight. Those preferring the winter hour will make the
    final change in the last Sunday of October.








    EARTH HOUR The presidential administration in Bucharest decided to join the ‘Earth
    Hour’ event by switching off interior and exterior lights at the Cotroceni
    palace, the headquarters of the Romanian presidency on Saturday night. Earth
    Hour is at present one of the biggest world movements for the protection of the
    environment and it involves millions of people, who are switching off lights
    all over the world for one hour in order to prove their commitment to saving
    the planet. The movement appeared in Australia in 2007 and since then over 190
    countries and territories have joined it.






    STRIKE The Bucharest underground has resumed its activity after the employees
    mounted a protest on Friday by blocking tracks. According to the authorities,
    the protest was illegal and was sparked off by an older dispute concerning the
    commercial spaces on its premises, which allegedly had a trade union leader involved.
    The protesters have been blamed for having failed to comply with the present
    regulations, putting travelers’ health at risk, as they had to use crowded public
    transport vehicles. In turn, the employees representatives who have blamed the
    authorities for their lack of interest in a constructive dialogue, said the protest
    was an unofficial strike sparked off by the board’s decision to cut down
    salaries.






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  • September 3, 2019

    September 3, 2019

    REPATRIATION The remains of Queen Helen, mother to King Michael I of Romania, will be repatriated this autumn and taken to the new Archdiocesan and Royal Cathedral in Curtea de Argeş, following a decision of the Custodian of the Romanian Crown, Princess Margareta, made public on Tuesday. Seventy-one years after Queen Helens exile and 37 years after her death, Princess Margareta decided to bring back to Romania the remains of her grand-mother. Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark was the daughter of King Constantine I of Greece and Queen Sophia of Prussia. In 1921 she married crown prince Carol in Athens, whom she divorced in 1928. In 1940 she became Queen Mother of Romania. She died in November 1982, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Unlike King Michael I, Queen Helen never saw her country again after her forced exile.




    EXERCISE The Romanian Navy organises as of today the Romanian-Ukrainian exercise “Riverine 2019, on the River Danube, the segment between Tulcea (Romania) and Izmail (Ukraine), with approx. 300 marines from the 2 countries taking part. The exercise is designed to improve cross-border cooperation between Romania and Ukraine in the naval field on the River Danube. Until September 7, inspection and towing exercises as well as emergency intervention drills will be organised.




    FESTIVAL In Bucharest the George Enescu International Festival continues with a concert by the London Philharmonic Orchestra together with the Academic Choir of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation. Two other performances take place in Cluj-Napoca and Sibiu. The central theme of this years edition of the festival is “The World in Harmony, and the artistic director is Vladimir Jurowski. Until September 22, Bucharest and 10 other cities in Romania and 5 other countries (Germany, France, Italy, Canada and the Rep. of Moldova) will host performances associated to the Festival. In Bucharest, over 2,500 of the most valuable musicians of the world will hold 84 concerts and recitals.




    PROGRAMME The EU programme designed to encourage children to eat fruit, vegetables and dairy at school continues in 2019. Of the total budget of 250 million euro, Romania will receive this academic year over 17 million euro. Last year, more than 20 million children in the EU benefited from this programme implemented in schools, whose goal is to promote healthy eating habits.




    EARTH Romanian students won one gold and 3 silver medals in this years edition of the International Earth Science Olympiad held in Daegu, South Korea between August 26 and September 3. The International Earth Science Olympiad encourages cooperation between students from various countries, by setting up international teams that receive research topics on environment issues in a specific geographic area and must come up with a project with proposed solutions to the respective issues. Taking part in this 13th International Earth Science Olympiad were 163 students from 41 countries.




    SPENDING EU citizens spent an average 377 euro for a holiday, and Romanians rank at the bottom of the list with around 135 euro earmarked for a vacation, according to data released by Eurostat on Tuesday. The biggest holiday spenders in the EU are the citizens of Luxembourg, with an average 769 euro for a holiday in 2017.




    TENNIS The young Canadian tennis player Bianca Andreescu, of Romanian descent, qualified into the quarter-finals of the US Open, the last Grand Slam of the year, after defeating the American Taylor Townsend in 3 sets. It is the first time that Andreescu (aged 19, number 15 in the world) takes part in the US Open, and also her first Grand Slam quarter-final. Taylor Townsend (116 WTA), had previously outplayed 2 Romanians, Simona Halep and Sorana Cîrstea. In the quarter-final Andreescu will take on Belgiums Elise Mertens (26 WTA).


    (translated by: Ana-Maria Popescu)

  • Nachrichten 19.03.2016

    Nachrichten 19.03.2016

    Am Samstag, den 19. März, findet die Earth Hour statt. “Earth Hour”, “Stunde der Erde” oder auch “Licht aus” ist der Name einer Umweltschutzaktion, die das Umweltbewusstsein erhöhen sowie Energiesparen und die Reduzierung von Treibhausgasen symbolisch unterstützen soll. Dazu sollen während der Earth Hour die Lichter ausgeschaltet werden. Mehr als 7.000 Städte aus mehr als 160 Ländern beteiligen sich dieses Jahr an der “Stunde der Erde”; 42 rumänische Städte werden sich mit der Ausschaltung der Beleuchtung und anderen Aktionen an der Stunde der Erde beteiligen. Die Bukarester Regierung wird sich am Samstag den Einrichtungen und Organisationen anschlie‎ßen, die die Stunde der Erde unterstützen. Im Regierungspalast Victoria und in mehreren Ministerien und öffentlichen Einrichtungen wird am Samstag zwischen 20.30 und 21.30. Uhr, die Beleuchtung ausgeschaltet, um den Einsatz Rumäniens bei der Lösung der Umweltprobleme zu bekräftigen, verlautbarte die rumänische Exekutive. Rumänien beteiligt sich seit 2009 an der Stunde der Erde”; die erste Earth Hour entstand 2007 aus einer Umweltschutzkampagne des WWF Australiens, die das Ziel hatte, die CO2-Emissionen in der grö‎ßten australischen Stadt Sydney innerhalb von 12 Monaten um 5 % zu reduzieren.



    Der rumänische ex-Staatschef Traian Băsescu hat am Freitag bestätigt, dass er und seine Gattin Maria die moldauische Staatsbürgerschaft beantragt haben. Er habe diesen Antrag gestellt als Zeichen des Respekts und der Lieb für die mehrheitlich rumänischsprachige Republik Moldau und ihre Bewohner, präzisierte Băsescu. Als Staatspräsident hatte Traian Băsescu bekanntlich wiederholt erklärt, nach Ablauf seiner zweiten Amtszeit auch moldauischer Staatsbürger werden zu wollen. Über die Verfahrensdauer einer Einbürgerung im Nachbarland machte die moldauische Presse keine Angaben, hob jedoch hervor, dass Băsescus Antrag schon eingedenk der mehr als 500.000 in Rumänien eingebürgerten Moldauer gute Aussichten auf Erfolg habe.



    Der Rumäne Tiberiu Uşeriu hat den 6633 Ultra Arctic Marathon 2016 gewonnen. Binnen einer Woche lief er 566 Km auf vereistem Grund, bei Temperaturen, die bis auf –62 Grad C sanken. Am diesjährigen Ultra Arctic Marathon beteiligten sich 12 Teilnehmer aus mehreren Ländern, darunter 3 Rumänen. Der Ultra Arctic Marathon findet seit 2007 in Kanada, in der Nähe des arktischen Polarkreises statt, und gilt als der härteste Marathonlauf der Welt.



    Das Internationale Experimentalfilmfestival (BIFF) findet bis 20. März Bukarest statt. Im Wettbewerb um den besten Experimental-Kurzfilm treten provokative und herausfordernde Produktionen der letzten Jahre an, die weltweit eine gute Resonanz beim Publikum finden und vielfach ausgezeichnet wurden. Diese feiern bei den Festspielen ihre Rumänienpremiere. Die diesjährigen Festspiele laden zudem das Publikum zu Gesprächen über die Grenze zwischen Film und bildenden Künsten ein. Zudem werden im Kinosaal Kunstwerke prominenter bildender Künstler zur Schau gestellt, die nur selten in anderer Räumlichkeit als Museen und Kunstgalerien ausgestellt werden.