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  • November 18, 2018

    November 18, 2018


    VISITS – The President of the
    European Court of Auditors, Klaus-Heiner Lehne will pay a visit to Bucharest on
    Monday and Tuesday, in the run-up to Romania’s taking over the rotating presidency
    of the EU Council, on January 1st, 2019. Klaus – Heiner Lehne will meet with
    Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis, Prime-Minister Viorica Dancila, the Speakers
    of the two parliament chambers, the Public Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici
    and the Minister Delegate for European Affairs George Ciamba. Several
    high-ranking officials will travel to Bucharest next week, including the
    president of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani. The officials will discuss
    topics of interest for the future of the EU and the good management, during
    Romania’s presidency, of major files, such as the multi-annual financial
    framework, Brexit, the future of the EU post Brexit and the evolution of the
    security policy.




    GREAT UNION – An event celebrating
    the Great Union Centennial has been hosted by Gyula in Hungary, the town that
    is home to the largest Romanian community in the country, which has its own
    Romanian school and newspaper. The event has been attended by Romanian cultural
    figures, university professors and local authorities. The Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi
    Institute for Romanians Worldwide has
    organized a conference on the contribution to the Great Union of Romanians in Hungary. A festivity was also held on the occasion, during which representatives
    of the Romanian community in Hungary, including headmasters of schools with
    teaching in Romanian, were awarded by the Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi institute, for the
    efforts they’ve made to preserve Romanian cultural values.




    RADIRO – The 4th
    International Festival of Radio Orchestras – RadiRo- starts in Bucharest today,
    organized by Radio Romania. This year, the festival celebrates Radio Romania’s
    90th anniversary and also the Great Union Centennial. Until next
    Sunday, the Radio Hall and the Auditorium Hall of the National Art Museum will
    be hosting 8 symphonic and 4 jazz concerts. The list of prestigious guests
    includes the oldest European radio orchestra, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony
    Orchestra, as well as the BBC Philarmonic, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, and RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, participating for the first time in the festival. All concerts will be
    broadcast live by Radio Romania, recorded and subsequently broadcast by the
    Romanian Television and other radio broadcasting companies members of the
    European Broadcasting Union.




    GAUDEAMUS Today is the last day of the Gaudeamus – Radio Romania
    International Book Fair. The 2018
    edition has been devoted to the Great Union Centennial and Radio Romania’s 90th
    anniversary. The main topic has been illustrated by a representative stand,
    with a collection of 600 volumes devoted to the Great Union and dozens of
    events, launches, book presentations, film screenings and public readings. The
    public has also had the opportunity to meet some of their favourite
    writers, literary critics and historians.




    CONSECRATION – The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew,
    is expected to Romania on the 23rd of November, for a four-day
    visit, according to a communiqué issued by the Romanian Patriarchy. Together
    with the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Daniel, and other Romanian
    hierarchs, Bartholomew will attend on November 25th the consecration
    of the newly-built Cathedral of the
    Salvation of the Nation. Bartholomew has been to Romania ten times, last time
    in 2010.






    PROTESTS – Protests staged by the
    so-called ‘yellow vests’ have been reported in France, against the increase in
    taxes and fuel prices. Some 300,000 protested in Paris and in other towns,
    blocking entrances into the highway. 227 people have been wounded and the
    police made 73 arrests. People were mobilized through the social media, without
    any intervention on the part of the trade unions or political parties.






    FOOTBALL – On Saturday night, in Ploiesti,
    in the south, Romania’s national football team defeated the Lithuanian squad
    3-nil, in a match part of the Nations League’s group 4. As a result, Romania
    went up to the second place in the group, and will play a decisive match
    against Montenegro, in Podgorica on Tuesday. Romania will be able to keep
    fighting for qualification to EURO 2020 as holder of the second position in the
    group if Serbia, the leader of the group, qualifies directly to the European
    Championship.

  • April 5, 2018 UPDATE

    April 5, 2018 UPDATE

    ROMANIAN ACADEMY – Historian Ioan-Aurel Pop, the rector of the ”Babeş-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca (north-western Romania) on Thursday was elected president of the Romanian Academy. He received 86 of the 148 votes that were cast during the General Assembly of the Romanian Academy. The newly elected president, who will have a four-year term in office, will take over the position 15 days since his election. The elections for four positions of vice-president and one of secretary general will be held on April 20. The former president of the Romanian Academy, Ionel Valentin Vlad, passed away in December 2017.



    SECURITY MEASURES – Over 50,000 employees of the Romanian Interior Ministry have been mobilised to maintain public order, safety and security across the country at Easter. Gendarme and police troops will be chiefly deployed around churches and other religious institutions. 250 thousand people are expected to attend more than 700 public events that will take place in Romania in the next four days. Traffic police, equipped with more than 300 traffic radars and backed by helicopters, will be monitoring traffic on Romanias motorways at Easter.



    MARCH – The “Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi Institute for the Romanians abroad, an institution subordinated to the Ministry for the Romanians Abroad jointly with the Lauder-Reut Educational Complex will be staging a March of Holocaust survivors – “Lets learn together, in Poland, over April 9-13. The event, which has an educational character and is aimed at teaching students a dramatic episode in history, involves the participation of young people from 52 countries. The Romanian delegation includes students from Romania and the Republic of Moldova. The project is part of the IEH “The Romanian Identity Caravan, which includes a series of cultural events destined to promote Romanian culture and to consolidate Romanian national identity, and is part of the Strategic Programme – “The Romanian Common Cultural Area – the Great Union Centennial 1918 – 2018.



    HEALTHCARE – Romanian health minister, Sorina Pintea, on Thursday said a revision of the legislation on the purchase of medicines is needed, in order to make sure that suppliers who take part in tenders provide the necessary amount of pharmaceutical products throughout the duration of the contract. She also said that the line authorities are permanently monitoring the stocks and the consumption level of pharmaceutical products in order to intervene urgently and legally, so that the necessary amount of medicines be provided to patients. The statements were made after last month, the relevant minister requested a report with centralised data as to the lack of medicines or to discontinuities in the process of supplying with medicines hospitals and medical centres included in the national oncology program.



    SKRIPAL CASE – The US diplomats who have been declared persona-non grata by Russia, in retaliation for the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats by the US, in the wake of the Skripal scandal, on Thursday left the US Embassy in Moscow, on the last day set by the Kremlin for them to leave the Russian soil. Serghei Skripal, a former Russian double agent who was living in the UK and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury, south-western England on March 4. London has openly accused Russia of involvement in the case and has announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats from British soil, a decision which was followed by similar measures taken by the US and over 20 other countries, with a total of 150 Russian diplomats being sent home. In late March, Russia, which denies any involvement, took a retaliatory measure, by expelling 60 US diplomats, closing down the US Consulate in Saint Petersburg and calling on London to reduce the number of its embassy and consular staff in Russia.



    HANDBALL – The Romanian womens handball team CSM Bucharest on Friday will meet on home soil the French team Metz, in the first round of the Champions League quarter finals. In the three other matches, the defending champion, Gyor of Hungary will meet Buducnost Podgorica of Montenegro, FC Midtjylland of Denmark will face Vardar Skopje of Macedonia, and Ferencvaros Budapest of Hungary will take on Rostov- Don of Russia. The winners will qualify for the Final Four tournament. We recall that CSM Bucharest won the Champions League in 2016.(Translated by D.Vijeu and D. Bilt)