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  • February 9, 2025 UPDATE

    February 9, 2025 UPDATE

    VOTE Over 2 thousand Romanian eligible voters residing abroad have so far registered on the website of the Permanent Election Authority to cast their ballot by mail in the presidential election due in May this year. The registration deadline is March 20th and, according to official figures, most registrations came from Germany, Britain, Switzerland, France and Spain. Romania will be hosting presidential election on May 4 and 18. We recall the first presidential round was invalidated by the Constitutional Court in December last year due to interferences in the election process.

    TALKS Romania’s Senate will next week be hosting talks with representatives of real estate agencies, notary public, and the National Agency for Cadastre. The MPs want to include in the legislation regulations for the better protection of those who want to buy houses from real estate developers. Three draft laws have already been submitted to Parliament in this respect. The move comes after hundreds of people affected by the Nordis fraudulent scheme have called for amendments to the legislation. The former PSD MP, Laura Vicol, her husband Vladimir Ciorba who is also the main shareholder in the Nordis Group, and other three persons have been placed in preventive detention in connection with the aforementioned file. The investigation is focusing on natural persons and companies accused of having raked in more than 195 million Euros from customers without giving them the apartments they paid for.

    CUP Romania’s national fifteen has qualified for World Cup 2027 after a 31-14 win on Saturday against the Belgian side in Rugby Europe Championship. Romania has thus ensured its 10th participation in the World Cup. Only in 2019, Romania was not allowed to attend the competition because it used an ineligible player in the qualifiers. In its debut match in Rugby Europe Championship 2025, Romania secured a 48-10 home win against Germany. Our players will be having their last match at home against Portugal on February 15. Romania ranks first in the standings with nine points followed by Portugal, Germany and Belgium. The first two sides are qualified for World Cup 2027.

    SPORTS CS Gloria 2018 Bistrita Nasaud, a women’s handball side from northern Romania, was outperformed by Slovenian side Krim Ljubljana 28-25 on Saturday in an away match counting towards group A of the Champions League. After that game, Gloria has few chances to qualify for the play-offs. In the same group on Sunday, CSM Bucharest defeated the Croatian side RK Podravka. In the competition’s group B, Rapid Bucharest was outperformed 24-30 by Ludwigsburg of Germany in an away game. In tennis competitions, the Romanian-Italian pair Jaqueline Cristian/Angelica Moratelli has conceded defeat to Magali Kempen of Belgium and Ana Siskova of the Czech Republic in the doubles finals of the tennis tournament Transylvania Open (WTA 250), a competition hosted by Cluj-Napoca, in north-western Romania, with more than 275 thousand dollars in prize money.

    112 Over 100 head offices of public institutions and private companies in Romania will light up in red on Tuesday to mark the European Day of the Emergency Number 112. According to its initiator, the Special Telecommunication Service, the move is aimed at drawing people’s attention to the essential role played by the unique emergency number and encouraging citizens to use it responsibly. The abusive use of the number can hinder the rapid intervention of the specialized teams where they are actually needed. Last year through the combined efforts of intervention institutions such as the police, paramedics, firefighters and others, the number of non-urgent 112 calls dropped by one million as compared to the previous years. Emergency operators received 9.7 million calls out of which 60.45% accounted for emergencies.

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  • The latest from rugby

    The latest from rugby

    Romanias rugby side has started off on the right foot in the present season. Our players have won the first two games in Rugby Europe Championship, Europes second rugby competition in terms of value. On February 5th, they secured a 34-25 home win against Russia and seven days later against Portugal 37-27. In each of the games the Romanian players scored four tries and generally managed good shows but at the same time they showed weakness and very difficult moments that are hard to explain. Although they got the upper hand against Russia 24-7 in the first half of the game, the visitors managed to reduce the difference to only four points in the second half. The Romanians eventually made a good comeback and clinched a well-deserved win against an ambitious opponent.


    The first half of the game against Portugal belonged to the visitors who got the upper hand 22-13 before the break. Romania came back with a vengeance in the second half and obtained no less than 24 points whereas Portugal managed only one unconverted try.


    Our players are to next take on Spain in Madrid on February 27th, and that will be a difficult game for our squad as the hosts have also clinched two wins; one at home against the Netherlands 43-0 and the next against Russia 41-37. Spain is presently ranking first in Rugby Europe Championship with 9 points followed by Romania, one point less. The odds-on favourite is Georgia, which comes after a 25-all draw against Portugal.


    Aggregate results in the 2021 and 2022 editions of Rugby Europe Championship are counting towards the qualification for World Cup next year. The side on the first position will become part of the World Cup Group C together with Wales, Australia, Fiji, as well as the victor in the qualifiers last leg.


    The side in the second position will be up against South-Africa, Ireland, Scotland and the first squad qualified in Asia/Pacifics group B. The third side in Rugby Europe Championship will be playing in the qualifiers. Worth noting is the fact that Romania has been present in all the World Cup editions so far but for the one in Japan in 2019.


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