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  • Sports Weekend


    The goalkeeper of Romanias national football side, Horaţiu Moldovan, on Thursday became a substitute player for his new side, Atletico Madrid, in the quarterfinals match against FC Seville, in the Football Cup of Spain. Atletico won the game 1-0. We recall that Moldovan was transferred from Romanian side, Rapid Bucharest, after the Spanish club had paid the 800 thousand Euros for the termination of his contract. Moldovans transfer comes after that of the center back, Radu Dragusin, who left the Italian side Genoa to join Tottenham Hotspur.


    According to the local press, Dragusins transfer stood at 25 million sterling. The headcoach of Farul Constanta, Romanian football legend, Gheorghe Hagi, was quoted by Agerpres news agency as saying that major football clubs in Europe have been monitoring Romanian footballers since our national sides qualification for the European Championship this year. According to Hagi, the foreign clubs interests in the Romanian footballers will begin to grow.


    This weekend will be seeing the football matches counting towards the 23rd leg of the Romanian Superleague. On Friday, Farul Constanta takes on FCU Craiova while on Saturday, in Arad, western Romania, local side UTA will be playing Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe. In Galati, eastern Romania, local side Otelul will be playing Petrolul Ploiesti, in keeping with the 60-year old tradition of matches pitching various teams of workers in Romania. Saturdays last match is the famous derby between Dinamo and Rapid on the National Arena in Bucharest.


    The difference between the two sides is huge. Rapid is currently ranking third whereas Dinamo is at the bottom of the table, ranking 15th. Three matches are due on Sunday: Hermannstadt on its own ground takes on FC Botosani, while Universitatea Cluj plays Poli Iasi. The day ends with another very interesting game: Universitatea Craiova versus FCSB. Monday will see only one game, the one pitching CFR Cluj against FC Voluntari. FCSB tops the ranking with 47 points, followed by CFR with 36.


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  • RRI Sport Club – Football

    RRI Sport Club – Football


    On Thursday and Sunday, Romanias national football side will be playing two games in the preliminaries of the European Football Championship next year. Our footballers first match will be against Belarus in Budapest on Thursday and the second one in Bucharest on Sunday against Andorra. Both matches will be played without supporters after the Romanian Football Federation has been sanctioned upon the match against Kosovo. Organized groups of children under 14 will be allowed to the stadium during the match against Andorra.



    For the two matches coach Iordanescu has summoned 26 players from Romania and abroad. The lineup will include several new players such as Denis Drăguş, from the Turkish side Gaziantep, Dennis Man, from the Italian side Parma and Louis Munteanu from the Romanian champions Farul Constanţa. Tudor Băluţă and Marian Aioani, both from Farul have not been summoned and neither has George Puşcaş, from Genoa. Due to the injuries he got in the latest leg of the Romanian football Super League, fullback Mario Camora from CFR Cluj, has been replaced by Andrei Borza of Rapid Bucharest.



    Also in Group I, on Thursday Kosovo plays at Andorra. The match in Tel Aviv, pitching Israel against Switzerland has been postponed for November 15th due to the state of war declared in Israel. On Sunday, Switzerland receives Belarus, and the Israeli representative is to go to Kosovo although the game in Pristina could also be postponed. After six games already played in the EURO 2024 preliminaries the Romanian national side ranks second in the group with 12 points, two points behind Switzerland. If they beat Belarus, Romania could top the groups ranking.


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  • August 25, 2023

    August 25, 2023

    LAWS The Romanian
    government will assume responsibility before Parliament for a law package concerning
    the reform of the state apparatus, the measures aimed at attaining fiscal
    balance and avoiding tax evasion. Wasting public money along with fiscal and
    tax evasion is preventing the country’s development, Romania’s Prime Minister
    Marcel Ciolacu has said. The Romanian official will go to Brussels next week
    for a new round of talks with the head of the European Commission, Ursula von
    der Leyen, over changing the budget deficit target, and according to some
    government sources, talks will also be focusing on the fiscal measures package.
    The opposition has announced its intention to table censure motions against the
    PSD-PNL Executive.






    JUSTICE The
    drug-addicted driver who killed two in a seaside resort in south-eastern
    Romania will not be able to avoid prison, says the former Justice Minister and
    present senator, Robert Cazanciuc. In a post on a social network, Cazanciuc explains
    that the so-called Anastasia Law, which he proposed in Parliament, has already
    been in force for one month and it stipulates prison sentences for all who,
    while driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, kill people in road
    accidents. The Social-Democratic senator says that additional prevention
    measures are needed, such as the interdiction to drive for a long period of
    time in the case of killer drivers or even the cancellation of driving licenses
    for those caught under the influence, irrespective of having committed a road
    accident or not. We recall that four high officials from the local police have
    stepped down after the accident. Although the aforementioned driver had been
    stopped by road police shortly before the accident, they eventually left him
    alone without testing him for banned substances. A government committee is
    presently investigating the incident in an attempt to discover the faulty
    procedures the police applied in the aforementioned case.






    TALKS Romanian
    Foreign Minister, Luminita Odobescu, on Thursday talked on the phone with the
    Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Mariya Gabriel, who is also the head of the
    Bulgarian diplomacy. According to a communiqué by the Foreign Ministry in
    Bucharest, the two ministers have reiterated the common objective of
    coordination with a view to completing ‘a.s.a.p’ the two countries’ accession
    process to Europe’s border-free area, Schengen. Odobescu has highlighted the
    interest of the Romanian side, also confirmed by her Bulgarian counterpart, in
    stepping up sectoral bilateral contacts with a view to developing joint projects,
    particularly in the field of infrastructure.






    FOOTBALL Romania’s
    football champions, Farul Constanta, on Thursday night secured a 2-1 home win
    against Finnish side HJK Helsinki in the play-offs of Europa Conference League.
    In the same stage of the competition, the winners of Romania’s Cup, Sepsi
    Sfantu Gheorghe, ended in a two-all draw their game against Norwegian side Bodoe/Glimt.
    The decisive matches for qualifying in the groups of Europe’s third football
    competition are to take place on August 31st.


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  • August 18, 2023 UPDATE

    August 18, 2023 UPDATE

    STATEMENT The Prime Ministers of Romania, Marcel
    Ciolacu and of Ukraine, Denys Shmyhal, signed a political statement in
    Bucharest on Friday over strengthening bilateral cooperation with a view to
    easing the transit of goods from Ukraine. The two have also initialed two
    agreements on the mutual recognition of education diplomas and the opening of a
    new border checkpoint between the two countries at Sighetul Marmatiei – Bila
    Tserkva. Romania intends to provide for the transit of over 60 % of the grain
    Ukraine is exporting on the international market, Marcel Ciolacu says. On the
    other hand, he recalled that Bucharest wants for the Romanian minority in
    Ukraine the same rights, the Ukrainian minority has in Romania. In turn, Denys
    Shmyhal has thanked Romania for its solidarity in the war against Russia, for
    easing the transit of Ukrainian grain as well as for the Romanian support for
    Ukraine’s European integration. He has also thanked Romania for receiving the
    refugees fleeing the Russian aggression and for training Ukrainian servicemen
    on its territory.








    FOOTBALL Sepsi OSK Sfantu Gheorghe, holder of
    Romania’s Football Cup has qualified for the play-offs of Europa Conference
    League after a one-nil win against FC Aktobe in Kazakhstan in the second round
    of the third preliminary leg. The first match in Romania ended in a draw. In
    another development, the vice-champions FCSB have been edged out of the
    competition by the Danish vice-champions FC Nordsjaelland, which after a
    goaless draw in Bucharest, secured a 2-0 win in the qualifiers. Romania’s champions,
    Farul Constanta, have also qualified for the competition’s after a return win against
    Estonian side Flora Tallin. Finnish side HJK Helsinki will take on Farul and FK
    Bodoe/Glimt of Norway will play Sepsi.






    GDP Romania is among
    the countries with the best results in terms of GDP growth and reduction of
    greenhouse gas emissions in the first quarter of this year, according to the
    Eurostat. Romania’s GDP is 2.4% and has increased more than the European
    average of 1.2%. In terms of greenhouse gas emissions, Romania has reduced them
    by almost 5%, while the European average is 2.9%. The EU economy as a whole has
    become more efficient and less polluting. In the first quarter of 2023, EU
    economy’s greenhouse gas emissions totaled 941 million tonnes of
    CO2-equivalent, a 2.9% decrease compared to the same quarter of 2022. This
    decrease took place simultaneously with a 1.2% increase in the EU’s GDP in the
    first quarter of 2023, compared with the same quarter of 2022, Eurostat
    reports. Most emissions were released by the housing sector – 24%,
    followed by industrial production – 20%, electricity and gas sector – 19%,
    agriculture – 13% and transport and storage – 10%. The largest decrease in
    emissions occurred in the electricity and gas sector – 12.3% while the
    transport and storage sector had the largest increase – by 7.2%




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  • August 18, 2023

    August 18, 2023


    OLYMPIAD – Romania took 1st place at the Central European Olympiad in Informatics 2023 (CEOI 2023), held in Magdeburg, Germany. Student Luca Perju-Verzotti with the Tudor Vianu National College of Informatics in Bucharest took the first place and gold medals. Gold, silver and bronze medals were also won by three students with the Aurel Vlaicu Theoretical High School in Orăștie (central Romania) and the International Theoretical High School of Informatics in Bucharest.



    GDP — Romania is among the countries with the best results in terms of GDP growth and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the first quarter of this year, according to the Eurostat. Romanias GDP is 2.4% and has increased more than the European average of 1.2%. In terms of greenhouse gas emissions, Romania has reduced them by almost 5%, while the European average is 2.9%. The EU economy as a whole has become more efficient and less polluting. In the first quarter of 2023, EU economy’s greenhouse gas emissions totalled 941 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent, a 2.9% decrease compared with the same quarter of 2022. This decrease took place simultaneously with a 1.2% increase in the EU’s GDP in the first quarter of 2023, compared with the same quarter of 2022, Eurostat reports. Most emissions were released by the housing sector – 24%, followed by industrial production – 20%, electricity and gas sector – 19%, agriculture – 13% and transport and storage – 10%. The largest decrease in emissions occurred in the electricity and gas sector – 12.3% while the transport and storage sector had the largest increase – by 7.2%


    FOREIG AFFAIRS – The Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luminiţa Odobescu, spoke on the phone with her Armenian counterpart, Ararat Mirzoyan, and also with the Canadian Foreign Minister, Melanie Joly. According to a press release of the Romanian Foreign Ministry, during the discussion with the Armenian counterpart, Minister Luminiţa Odobescu reconfirmed Romanias support for the development of the relationship between the Armenia and the EU. Regarding the situation in the South Caucasus, the Romanian official welcomed the mediation efforts of the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and voiced support for the peaceful resolution, through dialogue, of all pending issues, respecting the principles and norms of international law, including the provisions of international humanitarian law. On the other hand, during the telephone conversation with the Canadian counterpart, the very good cooperation on various files of bilateral interest was emphasized, such as cooperation in the energy sector, in the security and defense sectors and in the promotion of human rights. Also, the two ministers highlighted the joint commitment of Romania and Canada to provide sustained support to Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, both in the context of efforts to combat the effects of Russias war in Ukraine, and in support of the European path of the two states.



    GOVERNMENT – The text of an emergency order that modifies the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, but also the proposals of the Ministry of Transport in terms of cutting red tape are on the agenda of todays meeting of the Romanian government. The government also wants to adopt and submit to parliament a draft law to revise the article of the Criminal Code, which refers to the punishment of discrimination and incitement to hatred.



    VISIT — The Ukrainian Prime Minister, Denîs Şmîhal, is in Bucharest today for talks with Romanian officials on aspects related to regional security, in the context of Russias military aggression against Ukraine. We will also discuss Romanias efforts regarding the transit of Ukrainian grain to ensure access to food worldwide, as well as issues related to the bilateral agenda for the protection of Romanian farmers and the rights of Romanian minorities in Ukraine, Romanian PM, Marcel Ciolacu said.


    FOOTBALL –Sepsi OSK Sfântu Gheorghe football squad, holder of the Romanian Cup, qualified to the Europa Conference League play-off after the 1-0 victory against FC Aktobe on Thursday evening, in Kazakhstan, in the second leg of the third preliminary round of the competition. In Sfantu Gheorghe, Sepsi had finished the match with Aktobe in a draw. On Thursday evening, the Romanian vice-champion FCSB was eliminated from the Europa Conference League by the vice-champion of Denmark, FC Nordsjaelland, who, after a goalless draw in Bucharest, won at home 2-0, in the second leg of the third preliminary round. Romanias champion, Farul Constanţa, has also qualified to the Europa Conference League play-off, which won the away match with Flora Tallinn of Estonia. Two Nordic teams will be the opponents of the Romanians in the play-off: HJK Helsinki (Finland), for Farul and FK Bodoe/Glimt (Norway) for Sepsi. (EE)


  • August 17, 2023 UPDATE

    August 17, 2023 UPDATE


    TRAFFIC – Cargo traffic through the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanţa has reached almost 50 million tons in the first seven months of the year which is a record high. The grain trade accounted for 19 million tons, a quarter more than in the same period last year. Almost half of it is made with Ukraine. To facilitate the work, the Maritime Ports Administration will soon launch an IT application for booking road truck traffic, which will manage the flow of goods in real time. Since the beginning of the year, more than 385 thousand trucks have entered the port of Constanta.



    MIGRANTS – More than 450 Ukrainian men have illegally crossed the border with Romania since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 24, 2022, to flee the war. Of these, 190 took refuge this year. The Ukrainians have either crossed the borders with Romania and the Republic of Moldova illegally, or they entered by corrupting customs officers and border policemen from Ukraine. The Romanian Border Police reported that the people were detected in Botoşani county (north-east) and requested a form of protection from the Romanian state, as a result of the fact that they are coming from a conflict zone. The border police notified the General Inspectorate for Immigration, and the persons in question were taken over by the Regional Accommodation Center for Asylum Seekers in Rădăuţi. After martial law was declared in the neighboring country, Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 no longer have the right to leave the national territory and are obliged to join the army the army, if necessary.



    FUNDS – The Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism will grant non-refundable financing to people who want to invest in the infrastructure of Romanian spa and balneal resorts. Some 15 million lei have been allocated to the program for this year, approximately 3 million euros. Among the activities that will be financed are the expansion and modernization of accommodation facilities, public food and spa treatment, the purchase of equipment, furniture and specific medical equipment. The call for projects will be launched next month and registrations will be carried out exclusively online, on the turism.gov.ro website.



    UKRAINE – The Romanian authorities firmly condemn Russia’s repeated aggressions against innocent people and civilian infrastructure after the attack on the Ukrainian ports of Reni and Izmail, located near Romania. The Romanian Foreign Minister, Luminiţa Odobescu, underlined that through these blatant violations of international law, Russia continues to endanger global food security and the safety of navigation in the Black Sea. The structures of the Romanian Defense Ministry, which ensure the monitoring of the airspace, state that they have not identified any threats of a military nature to Romania’s national territory or territorial waters following the attack, and have announced increased measures to monitor the national terrestrial, maritime and air space, in cooperation with the NATO structures.



    TRADE – Germany is Romania’s most important commercial partner, the value of bilateral trade in 2022 standing at 40.68 billion Euros, higher by 17%, shows a press release of the Economy Ministry. In the same period, Germany was the first destination for Romanian exports, with a share of 20% of Romania’s total exports. At the same time, Germany represents for Romania the second source of foreign direct investments, with over 25,000 investing companies, mostly in the high tech industrial sectors. On Wednesday, the Economy Minister, Ştefan-Radu Oprea, met with the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bucharest, Peer Olav Gebauer. The talks focused on boosting bilateral economic cooperation, aiming both at attracting German investments in Romania and at encouraging national companies that want to initiate and develop projects on the territory of Germany.



    FOOTBALL – Romania’s football champions, Farul Constanţa (south-east), qualified for the Europa Conference League play-off, on Wednesday evening, after defeating the Estonian team Flora Tallinn with the score 2-0, away from home, in the second leg of the third preliminary round of the competition. In the first match, Farul had won 3-0. Farul will play in the play-off against the loser of the match pitting Qarabag FK (Azerbaijan) against HJK Helsinki (Finland), a match that takes place in the third preliminary round of the Europa League. The other two Romanian teams present in the Conference League, Sepsi Sfântul Gheorghe (central Romania) and FCSB, are playing today. Sepsi will play in Kazakhstan against FC Aktobe, after a one-all score in Romania, and FCSB will play in Norway against FC Nordsjaelland, with whom they ended the first match from Bucharest in a tie, 0-0. (EE)



  • A brief look at the upcoming international football matches with Romanian participation

    A brief look at the upcoming international football matches with Romanian participation

    Three Romanian football sides are to take on their opponents in the
    return matches of the third preliminary round of the European competition known
    as Conference League.




    Starting 19 hours, local time on Wednesday, Romania’s champions, Farul
    Constanţa, will be up against Flora Tallinn of Estonia. The team coached by
    former football legend Gheorghe Hagi secured a 3-0 win through the goals scored
    by Denis Alibec, Constantin Budescu and Portuguese Diogo Queiros, so they stand
    good chances to qualify for the play-offs. If they beat Flora, the Romanians
    will be up against the loser of the match pitching the Azerbaijani eleven
    Qarabag and the Finns from HJK Helsinki, who are playing in the second
    continental competition, Europa League. Qarabag secured a 2-1 win in the first
    match.




    The holder of Romania’s Cup, Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe will be taking on the
    vice-champions of Kazakhstan, Aktobe in an away game on Thursday. The match
    will be broadcast at 18 hours, Romania’s time. The first game ended in a draw, one-all.
    Brazilian Elder Santana put Aktobe in the lead in the 65th minute,
    but Sepsi leveled the scoring through Roland Varga one minute from time. The
    side to win the return game will meet in the play-off the winner of the match
    pitching the Norwegian side Bodø/Glimt against the Armenians from Pyunik Yerevan.
    The first match went to the Norwegians 3-0.


    At 20 hours Bucharest time, Romanian football side FCSB will be playing
    Danish team Nordsjælland in an away match. The first game in Bucharest a week
    ago ended in a goaless draw. Although without a man on the ground for more than
    a half an hour, the visitors managed to prevent the hosts from scoring in the
    match in Bucharest. The Romanians hope to do this in the away game and if they
    win they will meet the winner of the match opposing Azerbaijani side Sabah to
    FK Partizan of Belgrade. Sabah won the first match 2-0.


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  • July 14, 2023

    July 14, 2023

    VISIT The Bulgarian Prime
    Minister Nikolai Denkov is today paying a formal visit to Bucharest for talks
    with his Romanian counterpart Marcel Ciolacu. Denkov’s visit comes after on
    Wednesday, the European Parliament reconfirmed its support for the accession of
    Romania and Bulgaria to Europe’s border-free area, Schengen. Through a
    resolution endorsed with a land-slide majority, the MEPs have called on the EU
    Council to approve the candidature of the two countries by the end of the year.
    The document says that Romania and Bulgaria are fulfilling all the criteria to
    join the Schengen zone that
    the exercise of the right of veto, without having presented any
    justification of a legal nature related to the accession criteria, fuels
    anti-European sentiment and harms the economy. The European Parliament emphasizes
    that Romanians and Bulgarians are discriminated against, because they face
    delays, bureaucratic difficulties and additional costs when traveling or doing
    business abroad, in comparison with the Schengen Area citizens. The European
    Parliament also asks the Commission to estimate the financial losses, lost
    gains and environmental damage that Romania and Bulgaria have incurred, since
    June 2011, due to not being members of the Schengen area and to analyze the
    possible compensation mechanisms.






    FOOTBALL
    The
    football matches pitching Otelul Galati against UTA Arad and Rapid Bucharest
    against Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe are opening tonight the 2023-2024 edition of
    Romania’s domestic football championship also known as the Superleague. We
    recall that on Wednesday, the champions, Farul Constanta, secured a 1-0 home
    win against Sheriff Tiraspol of the Republic of Moldova, in the first round of
    the Champions League’s preliminaries. The return match takes place in Tiraspol
    next week. The team that qualifies will be playing the winner of the double
    match pitching Maccabi Haifa of Israel against Hamrun Spartans of Malta. The
    Israeli side secured a four-nil win in the first match. Three Romanian sides
    are playing in the Conference League. In the second preliminary round, the
    former champions CFR Cluj will be up against Adana Demirspor of Turkey. The
    winners of Romania’s Cup and Super-Cup, Sepsi will be playing CSKA Sofia of
    Bulgaria while the vice-champions FCSB will be up against CSKA 1948 Sofia. The
    first games are due on July 24th and the return ones a week later.










    CARE
    Inspections have been carried out at more than two thousand social foster homes
    and care centers in Romania in the past days. 20 of these, most of them in
    Bucharest, have been closed down. Activity in other 30 facilities of this kind
    has been suspended and fines of 2 million Euros have been applied. Two
    inspectors with the County Agency for Payment and Social Inspection have been
    apprehended for having failed to properly asses the situation in a foster
    center for the disabled. The first leading figure to step down amid the scandal
    known in Romania as ‘The Retirement Centers of Horror’, was the country’s
    Social-Democratic Minister of Labour Marius Budai. According to some sources,
    Social-Democratic leaders are considering the idea of ending the political
    support for Family Minister Gabriela Firea, after she rejected the allegations
    that she was connected to the culprits in the aforementioned file.








    PARADE France’s President
    Emmanuel Macron is today attending the usual military parade on Champs-Elysees
    on the country’s national day. The event’s special invitee is Indian Premier
    Narendra Modi. According to Radio Romania’s correspondent in Paris, the
    security measures are at an unprecedented level in order to prevent urban revolts
    like those last month. Elite units of the police and gendarmerie backed by
    helicopters and armored vehicles are to supervise the ceremonies. Last year,
    shortly after the end of the parade, in the so-called sensitive areas on the
    outskirts of Paris as well as in Marseille and Lyon, police precincts were
    attacked, cars set on fire and shops looted. The risk seems to be higher this
    year mainly after the incident of the teenager shot by the police during a
    traffic stop and after hundreds of arrests and prison sentences among young
    people for aggression and vandalism at the end of June.




    STATISTICS
    according to sources with the Border Police General Inspectorate on Thursday, 147,517
    people entered Romania through the border checkpoints, of whom 17,503 were
    Ukrainian nationals. According to a press release issued on Thursday, starting
    on February 10, 2022, two weeks before the Russian army invaded their country, over
    5 million Ukrainians have entered Romania. The number of Ukrainian citizens who
    took up employment in Romania after the start of the war reached an all-time
    high last month – the Romanian Labor Ministry says. According to ministry
    sources, at the national level, 6,810 employment contracts were concluded for
    Ukrainian citizens, the highest level since February 24, 2022 until now. All in
    all, the ministry says, that 7,972 active contracts of Ukrainian citizens have
    been registered, of which 6,810 have been concluded after the start of the
    Russian invasion. 1,452 of the Ukrainians who chose employment in Romania are
    working in the manufacturing industry, and 1,181 in the construction industry.
    Another 737 are employed in the trade domain. From the point of view of the
    areas in which they chose to work, the most (2,770) found work in Bucharest,
    and 418 in Timiş county (west).




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  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    A new edition of the Romanian football championships, known as the Super-league, begins on Friday with the best 16 elevens vying for the title. The competition will have two parts, the first consists of the football season per se when all the sides will play each other.


    The first half of the season, which kicks off this weekend, has 15 legs and is due to end in November, the second half, with the same number of legs will end in March next year. The first six sides at the end of the first season will met in the play-offs for the title of Champions and for a place in the European Cups. They will play against each other during the first five legs, then they will meet again for the return matches. The champion side will go into the preliminaries of the Champions League and the runner up into the Conference League preliminaries. The third side in the ranking will be playing the best side in the play-out for a place in the Conference League.


    What is known in Romania as the play-out competition will bring together the sides on the 7th to the 16th positions at the end of the football season. They will be playing each other in 9 legs. The first two sides will play a tie match and the winner will be taking on the third side in the play-offs for a place in the Conference Leagues preliminaries. The sides on the 9th and 10th positions in the play-out will demote to the second Romanian football league, while those on the 7th and 8th positions will play a tie match against those on 3rd and 4th positions in an attempt to remain in the Super-league.


    The Super-leagues latest champion is Farul Constanţa, which will first take on Hermannstadt in Sibiu, central Romania. The newly-promoted Oţelul Galaţi will be playing UTA from Arad, while Poli Iaşi will be up against CFR Cluj on the latters home turf. Dinamo Bucharest, on their own turf will be playing Universitatea Craiova.


    In the end we remind you that you can revisit this report on the Internet at rri.ro as well as on Radio Romania Internationals Facebook profile.


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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    The European Junior Swimming Championships have ended in Belgrade. Although
    without the multiple world champion David Popovici, who is no longer allowed to
    compete in junior competitions, the Romanian team has obtained good results and
    walked away with six medals. Three of these have been reaped by Vlad Stancu,
    silver in the 800 and 15 hundred meter races and bronze in the free-style 400
    meters race. Daria Silişteanu became silver medalist in the 100 meter
    backstroke race and bronze in the 50 meter race. Also from the Romanian
    delegation, Vlad Mihalache won silver in the 200 meter butterfly race. In the
    nations ranking, Romania came 14th with Italy, Hungary and Denmark
    on the first places.




    Romania went third in the World Rowing Cup in Lucerne after Britain and
    the Netherlands. Our athletes reaped six medals. The double scull team made up
    of Ancuta Bodnar and Simona Radis and the Romanian four made up of Mădălina
    Bereş, Maria Tivodariu, Magdalena Rusu and Amalia Bereş won gold. Four medals
    were silver and were won by the Romanian women’s double made up of Ioana
    Vrânceanu and Roxana Anghel, and by our men’s double made up of Marius Cozmiuc and
    Sergiu Bejan. The lightweight women’s double made up of Mariana-Laura Dumitru and
    Ionela Cozmiuc also became silver medalist and so did the men’s four made up of
    Mihai Chiruţă, Andrei-Sebastian Cornea, Ioan Prundeanu and Marian Enache.




    Romania’s Football Super Cup has been won for the second year in a row
    by Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe. This Transylvanian side, which is also holder of
    Romania’s Cup, on Saturday outperformed Romania’s Champion side Farul
    Constanţa, one-nil. The only goal of the match was scored by Ion Gheorghe, in
    the first minute of the second half. Only Steaua Bucureşti, presently known as FCSB,
    Dinamo Bucharest and CFR Cluj have won the trophy for more than two times. Rapid
    Bucharest and Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe have also won two editions of the
    aforementioned competition.


    This weekend will see the resumption of the Romanian domestic football championships. Until then, the Romanian football side Farul Constanţa takes on Sheriff
    Tiraspol in the first preliminary round of the Champions League. The first
    match is due on Wednesday in Ovidiu, south-eastern Romania.




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  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    All Romanian football sides but one are currently
    on holiday. The country’s national eleven is presently training for the
    upcoming matches in the preliminaries of EURO 2024. The domestic season is over
    now with Farul Constanta as champions. We recall the club is owned by the man
    who has been considered the best Romanian footballer ever Gheorghe Hagi, who is
    also the team’s headcoach.


    It has been an extraordinary year for Farul,
    which topped the national championship from the beginning to end. Farul’s main
    challenger proved to be the Bucharest legend FCSB, formerly known as Steaua, but
    the last head-to-head game went to Farul 3-2, which eventually reaped the trophy.


    Farul will be next playing in the Champions
    League’s preliminaries, while the runner up FCSB, CFR Cluj, the side on the
    third place, and Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe, winner of Romania’s Cup are going into
    qualifiers for the Conference League.


    Tie matches were played for the position
    currently occupied by CFR. FCU Craiova first took on FC Voluntari, which they
    defeat in the penalty shootout and were eventually up against CFR Cluj in a
    decisive game for Conference League. CFR eventually secured a 1-0 win the in
    the injury time.


    Politehnica Iaşi, Oţelul Galaţi and Dinamo
    Bucureşti have joined Romania’s first football league this season. Dinamo
    Bucharest played two tie matches against FC Arges. Dinamo won the first match
    6-1 and lost their second 2-4. The other game for a place in the first football
    division pitched UTA Arad against Gloria Buzau. UTA won on aggregate after a
    goaless draw in the first match and 5-1 win in the second. CS Mioveni, Chindia
    Târgovişte and FC Argeş have been demoted to the second football league.


    In their qualifying matches for EURO 2024, our
    footballers will first take on Kosovo in Pristina, on June 16, then fly to
    Lucerne in Switzerland for a game against the local representative three days
    later. After the victories in March against Andorra and Belarus our footballers
    are ranking second in Group One with the same number of points as Switzerland.


    (bill)

  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    All Romanian football sides but one are currently
    on holiday. The country’s national eleven is presently training for the
    upcoming matches in the preliminaries of EURO 2024. The domestic season is over
    now with Farul Constanta as champions. We recall the club is owned by the man
    who has been considered the best Romanian footballer ever Gheorghe Hagi, who is
    also the team’s headcoach.


    It has been an extraordinary year for Farul,
    which topped the national championship from the beginning to end. Farul’s main
    challenger proved to be the Bucharest legend FCSB, formerly known as Steaua, but
    the last head-to-head game went to Farul 3-2, which eventually reaped the trophy.


    Farul will be next playing in the Champions
    League’s preliminaries, while the runner up FCSB, CFR Cluj, the side on the
    third place, and Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe, winner of Romania’s Cup are going into
    qualifiers for the Conference League.


    Tie matches were played for the position
    currently occupied by CFR. FCU Craiova first took on FC Voluntari, which they
    defeat in the penalty shootout and were eventually up against CFR Cluj in a
    decisive game for Conference League. CFR eventually secured a 1-0 win the in
    the injury time.


    Politehnica Iaşi, Oţelul Galaţi and Dinamo
    Bucureşti have joined Romania’s first football league this season. Dinamo
    Bucharest played two tie matches against FC Arges. Dinamo won the first match
    6-1 and lost their second 2-4. The other game for a place in the first football
    division pitched UTA Arad against Gloria Buzau. UTA won on aggregate after a
    goaless draw in the first match and 5-1 win in the second. CS Mioveni, Chindia
    Târgovişte and FC Argeş have been demoted to the second football league.


    In their qualifying matches for EURO 2024, our
    footballers will first take on Kosovo in Pristina, on June 16, then fly to
    Lucerne in Switzerland for a game against the local representative three days
    later. After the victories in March against Andorra and Belarus our footballers
    are ranking second in Group One with the same number of points as Switzerland.


    (bill)

  • Athlete of the Week

    Athlete of the Week

    Romania’s greatest
    football player in history, Gheorghe Hagi, also proves to be a good club
    manager. The team he is coaching, Farul Constanţa, won this year’s edition of
    the Romanian Football Super League, one round ahead of the end of the
    championship. On Sunday, Farul defeated FCSB 3-2 on home turf, and are now 4
    points ahead in the standings, a gap which the teams ranking next can no longer
    make up for.




    In a quite
    dramatic match on Sunday, FCSB was ahead 2-0, with goals scored by Adrian Şut, on
    9 minutes and Andrea Compagno, 8 minutes later. Farul scored once before half
    time, thanks to the Brazilian Mateus Santos. Tudor Băluţă scored for the draw
    on 58 minutes, and Louis Munteanu scored the winning goal just minutes before
    the end of the match. Munteanu’s goal secured the second championship title for
    Hagi’s team, after the one in 2017, when the team was called Viitorul
    Constanţa. For the goal that decided the fate of the Romanian Super League this
    year, Radio Romania International designates Louis Munteanu as Athlete of the
    Week.




    Louis
    Munteanu was born in Vaslui (eastern Romania), on 16 June 2002. He attended the
    Gheorghe Hagi Football Academy, then he was recruited by Viitorul Constanţa. He
    made his debut as a striker in Romania’s top league at the age of 17, in
    October 2019, in a match against Dinamo Bucharest. In September 2021 he was
    transferred to the Italian side Fiorentina, but he never got to play in the
    first team there. Last summer he was loaned to Farul Constanţa. He played
    several times in Romania’s junior and youth teams, but he is yet to play for
    the national team. (AMP)

  • Athlete of the Week

    Athlete of the Week

    Romania’s greatest
    football player in history, Gheorghe Hagi, also proves to be a good club
    manager. The team he is coaching, Farul Constanţa, won this year’s edition of
    the Romanian Football Super League, one round ahead of the end of the
    championship. On Sunday, Farul defeated FCSB 3-2 on home turf, and are now 4
    points ahead in the standings, a gap which the teams ranking next can no longer
    make up for.




    In a quite
    dramatic match on Sunday, FCSB was ahead 2-0, with goals scored by Adrian Şut, on
    9 minutes and Andrea Compagno, 8 minutes later. Farul scored once before half
    time, thanks to the Brazilian Mateus Santos. Tudor Băluţă scored for the draw
    on 58 minutes, and Louis Munteanu scored the winning goal just minutes before
    the end of the match. Munteanu’s goal secured the second championship title for
    Hagi’s team, after the one in 2017, when the team was called Viitorul
    Constanţa. For the goal that decided the fate of the Romanian Super League this
    year, Radio Romania International designates Louis Munteanu as Athlete of the
    Week.




    Louis
    Munteanu was born in Vaslui (eastern Romania), on 16 June 2002. He attended the
    Gheorghe Hagi Football Academy, then he was recruited by Viitorul Constanţa. He
    made his debut as a striker in Romania’s top league at the age of 17, in
    October 2019, in a match against Dinamo Bucharest. In September 2021 he was
    transferred to the Italian side Fiorentina, but he never got to play in the
    first team there. Last summer he was loaned to Farul Constanţa. He played
    several times in Romania’s junior and youth teams, but he is yet to play for
    the national team. (AMP)

  • Sulina

    Sulina


    Şi astăzi mergem pe urma destinaţiilor turistice evidenţiate în Top 10 Destinații FIJET România 2023. După cum v-am obişnuit de ceva vreme urmărim să vizităm acele locuri din ţară vizitate, propuse, votate şi apoi premiate de Membrii Clubului Presei de Turism – FIJET România, pentru valoarea lor turistică. Am ajuns astăzi la locul 4: Sulina. Sulina cel mai estic oraş al ţării noastre, un oraş-port amplasat la gura de vărsare a Canalului Sulina în Marea Neagră, loc în care se poate ajunge doar pe calea apei, cu două tipuri de mijloace de transport: nava rapidă şi nava clasică, deplasarea cu aceasta din urmă fiind o adevarată plăcere pentru cei îndrăgostiţi de natură. Destinația fiind propusă de Grig Bute, jurnalist de turism și cultură la Cațavencii, creatorul paginilor Facebook și Instagram și al canalelor YouTube și TikTok Ora de Turism, vicepreședinte FIJET România, l-am inivtat pe acesta să îşi argumenteze propunerea:


    Sulina este un loc magic, atât de divers și de diferit, combinație de vechi și nou, de sat și oraș, de Deltă și mare, la margine de Românie și de lume, în care poți trăi o experiență turistică altfel. De la spații de cazare amenajate cu gust, tradițional, și mese cu meniuri aproape exclusiv pescărești, la ture cu caiacul și excursii cu șalupa, spre gura de vărsare a Dunării în mare, către Golful Musura, epava navei Turgut sau Insula Păsărilor – K, Sulina oferă turistului interesat să descopere spiritul locului o vacanță activă și inedită. Vizita cimitirului multiconfesional, unic în Europa, în care pot fi descoperite poveștile nemuritoare ale oamenilor veniți din toată lumea ca să se stabilească definitiv aici, expedițiile pe apă pentru birdwatching în Delta Dunării sau răsăritul şi apusul vizionate de pe plajă la Marea Neagră sau de lângă Farul Vechi sunt, cu siguranță, niște amintiri memorabile, care nu pot fi trăite nicăieri în altă parte.



    Având o înălţime de peste 17 metri şi o formă tronconică, Farul Vechi din Sulina – astăzi muzeu – a fost construit între anii 1869 – 1870. De-a lungul timpului, clădirea a suferit unele modificări, fără să-i fie afectată structura iniţială. Expoziţia permanentă organizată în cadrul muzeului prezintă aspecte importante din evoluţia localităţii, în special în perioada funcţionării Comisiunii Europene a Dunării. În acelaşi spaţiu sunt prezentate viaţa şi activitatea a două personalităţi emblematice pentru istoria oraşului: scriitorul Eugeniu P. Botez (cunoscut sub pseudonimul literar Jean Bart) şi dirijorul George Georgescu. La parterul farului se află şi o sală dedicată Comisiunii Europene a Dunării, organism internaţional constituit în urma Tratatului de la Paris din 30 martie 1856 şi care a avut farul în administrare din 1879.



    Cea mai înaltă construcţie din Sulina este cea a uzinei de apă. Legenda spune că ajungând la Sulina, la sfârşitul anilor 1890, regina Wilhelmina a Olandei a coborât de pe vapor şi a cerut apă şi, pentru că i s-a adus un pahar cu apă din Dunăre, Casa Regală a Olandei a donat fonduri pentru construirea Castelului de Apă şi a reţelei de canalizare a oraşului.