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  • Sports Weekend

    Sports Weekend

    Romania’s handball sides have learnt their opponents in the following Champions League season after the lots drawing ceremony in Vienna on Thursday.

    So, in women’s competitions, where Romania is being represented by three sides, two of these, namely CSM Bucharest and Gloria Bistrita will be playing in Group A. Their opponents are Hungarian side Ferencvaros, Metz of France, Krim Ljublijana of Slovenia, Storhamar of Norway, Nykøbing Falster of Denmark and the Croatian side Podravka Koprivnica.

    Rapid Bucharest will be playing in Group B, together with Hungarian side Győr, the Norwegians from Vipers Kristiansand, Danish sides Esbjerg and Odense, with Buducnost Podgorica of Montenegro and the German side Ludwigsburg, formerly known as Bietigheim. The group also includes the French side Brest Bretagne.

    In men’s contests Dinamo Bucharest will be playing in Group A together with

    Wisla Plock of Poland, Paris Saint-Germain, Sporting Lisabona, with the Danish side Fredericia, Veszprem of Hungary, Fuchse Berlin and Bitola of North-Macedonia. The group’s matches are to kick off in September.

    However, the most important sporting event of these days is still the European Football Championships with the round of 16 scheduled to kick off on Saturday.

    We remind you that Romania will be up against the Netherlands in Munich on Tuesday.  Seven thousand tickets have been reserved for the Romanian football fans, although the Romanian Football Federation is holding talks with UEFA to double the number.

    According to the UEFA procedures, in the following period all those who bought at least one ticket for the matches in the group, are to receive a notification mail from UEFA allowing their purchase of four more tickets.

    They will have 24 hours to purchase their tickets and the remaining ones will be made available on the UEFA ticket web page. Until the match against the Netherlands, the Romanian side is training in Würzburg, Bavaria.

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  • June 27, 2024

    June 27, 2024

    FITS The International Theatre Festival in Sibiu, central Romania, continues today with over 80 events scheduled. The famous US actor John Malkovich will step onto the stage with a show entitled ‘In the Solitude of Cotton Fields’. ‘Uncle Vanya’ by Anton Chekhov is another performance scheduled, and will be put on stage by actors from the National Theatre Satiricus Ion Luca Caragiale from the Republic of Moldova. The Bucharest-based ‘Stela Popescu’ Theatre will be presenting a concert-show directed by Razvan Mazilu and the Austrian Theatre brings in a performance entitled “The Carpathians like Stains on My Skin”. Street performances are expected to animate the medieval squares and pedestrian areas in the city of Sibiu. The programme is completed by gospel concerts and Portuguese Fado performances, while a Spanish troupe is expected to give a concert in Sibiu’s Big Square.

     

    FOOTBALL Romania’s national football side qualified for the round of 16 of the European Football Championship after a one-all draw against Slovakia in Frankfurt on Wednesday night. Razvan Marin scored the equalizer from a penalty shot and his performance pushed the side coached by Edward Iordanescu on top of the group. Our footballers will be up against the Netherlands on the famous Allianz Arena in Munich. Thousands of fans took to the streets of Romania to express their joy for the performance.

     

    NATO The Dutch Premier Mark Rutte is officially the future NATO Secretary General. The 57 year-old politician has benefitted from support from all 32 representatives of the North Atlantic Council, the alliance’s main decision-making body and his mandate is to kick off on October 1st. Rutte will replace the Norwegian chief Jens Stoltenberg and is known for his critical position against Russia and for supporting Ukraine in terms of its NATO and EU accession. The Netherlands is supporting Ukraine also militarily, including with F-16 jet fighters, which have been given the permission to strike Russian targets. Besides the war in Ukraine and the tense international political background, Rutte will have the task of negotiating with a possible US administration led by Donald Trump, if the latter wins the upcoming election where he runs against the incumbent president Joe Biden.

     

    SUMMIT EU leaders are convening today in Brussels in the company of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky for talks on providing weapons to Ukraine and the latest developments in the war with Russia. This has been the second summit after the European Parliament elections early this month and the 27 heads of state and government will continue talks on distributing positions in the main European institutions. Ursula von der Leyen, from the European People’s Party, is favourite for the position of the head of the European Commission, while the former Portuguese premier Antonio Costa, from the Socialists, stands chances to head the European Council. The position of the president of the European Parliament will be shared by the EPP and the Socialists with the first two years and a half held by incumbent president Roberta Metsola from the EPP. The three main political groups are convening separately to decide their position on the final negotiation in the Council. Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis will be attending the EPP meeting while the country’s Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu the Socialists. Also high on the agenda there is the military aid for Ukraine, which has been blocked by Hungary, which is also blocking the distribution by Kyiv of the profits from the frozen Russian assets. The summit also marks the end of the Belgian EU presidency, which will be taken over by Budapest for the next six months.

     

    VISIT The head of the Romanian diplomacy Luminita Odobescu on Wednesday held talks In Warsaw with her Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski on the sidelines of the trilateral meeting Romania-Poland-Turkey. Minister Odobescu has hailed the dynamic and complex character of the Romanian-Polish dialogue, assumed in the Strategic Bilateral Partnership and reflected in a busy agenda of political-diplomatic contacts and an excellent cooperation in the fields of security and economy as well as in sectoral areas. She also expressed the interest for the ongoing capitalization of the investment opportunities offered by the two states as well as in deepening cooperation in fields of mutual interest such as infrastructure, energy, agriculture and education. The Romanian minister has also hailed the effective cooperation at the EU and NATO levels as well as in regional formats. Regarding Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, the Romanian minister reiterated the need for the ongoing multidimensional support, including the military one as well as the importance of reconstructing the country’s infrastructure heavily affected by the war.

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