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  • August 6, 2023

    August 6, 2023

    FIRES The Romanian
    fire-fighters deployed to Greece worked on Saturday and Sunday together with
    their Greek colleagues to put out a fire in the Aragonitis area, around 55 km
    from the village of Vilia, in the region of Attica, the General Inspectorate
    for Emergencies announced. According to the institution, at the request of the
    Greek liaison officers, the Romanian unit supported the Greek fire-fighters
    with 4 fire engines, personnel rotating every 4 hours, and additional lighting
    equipment. Scores of Romanian fire-fighters have already taken part, over the
    past few weeks, in similar missions to help the Greek authorities manage
    extensive wildfires.

    BORDERS Road traffic across
    Romanian borders is difficult these days as Romanians leaving or returning from
    their holidays are queuing at checkpoints. According to the authorities, queues
    of tens of minutes are reported at Romania’s western and south-eastern entry checkpoints.
    Vehicle queues are recurrent every summer, although all available lanes are
    open, because of the high volume of checks border police are required to
    complete.


    UNTOLD The 8th edition of UNTOLD, one of
    the largest music festivals in Europe, held in Cluj-Napoca, central Romania,
    ends today. The theme of this year’s festival was Phoenix Light. The 4-day
    festival brought together well-known international artists like Armin Van
    Buuren, Goran, David Guetta, world-famous DJs like Martin Garrix, as well as
    many Romanian artists. Theme parties were organised, and music fans were
    entertained by international acrobats, animators, dancers, drummers from Romania,
    France, Spain, UK and Germany.




    HAFERLAND Today is the last day of Haferland Week
    Festival, currently in its 11th year, held near Sighișoara, the only
    medieval citadel still inhabited in south-eastern Europe. This is one of the
    most important events devoted to the culture of Saxons, a group of German ethnics
    that settled in Transylvania in the Middle Ages. The festival is held in 10
    localities in the region of Haferland (Oat Country). The theme of the event
    attended by officials and public personalities from Romania and Germany, was sustainability
    in Haferland’s Saxon villages. On Sunday, an event entitled The brass band is
    playing up the hill was followed by a religious service at the fortified church
    in Criţ. The public also attended woodworking, painting, weaving and embroidery
    workshops.





    GAMES Romania came out 2nd in the Francophonie Games hosted
    by Kinshasa (Congo), after Morocco, with a total 17 gold, 9 silver and 12 bronze
    medals. Third came Cameroon. On Saturday, the Romanian athletes won 2 medals, a
    silver and a bronze, in African wrestling. Romania participated in the Games
    with 57 athletes, competing in athletics, women’s basketball, freestyle and
    African wrestling, road cycling, table tennis and judo. The 9th
    Francophonie Games were held between July 28 and August 6. (AMP)

  • July 27, 2023

    July 27, 2023

    WILDFIRES
    Forty Romanian fire fighters are
    relocated today from Attica region on Greece’s Rhodes Island, heavily affected
    by uncontrolled wildfires, the Romanian General Inspectorate for Emergencies
    announced. They travel by sea together with 3 fire engines and a 10-ton fire
    truck, as well as a personnel transport vehicle. According to the Romanian Foreign
    Ministry, high fire risks continue to be reported today in several parts of
    Greece, while the weather is expected to change radically, with strong storms
    forecast especially in Thrace, Macedonia, Khalkidhiki and the north-eastern
    Aegean coast. Romanian citizens who plan on traveling to Greece in this period
    are advised to get fully informed of the situation ahead of leaving, and those
    who are already in the affected areas are urged to comply with the instructions
    issued by local authorities and follow official sources of information.


    NATURAL GAS Romanians will have safe access to natural gas, even in
    the case of lower temperatures than usual in the winter season, as Azerbaijan guaranteed
    Romania access to a capacity of up to 1 billion cubic metres of natural gas if
    necessary. The statement was made by the energy minister, Sebastian Burduja, who
    had a meeting in Bucharest with his counterpart E.S. Parviz Shahbazov. The
    filling level for Romanian storage facilities is over 75.5%, significantly over
    the level promised by Romania to the EU, and nearly 700 million cubic metres
    more than we had at the same time in 2022, the minister said in a social media
    post on Thursday. He added that he discussed with the energy minister of Azerbaijan about ways
    to develop the strategic partnership, bilateral investments and joint projects in the energy sector, including a green corridor to connect the Caspian Sea to
    the Black Sea. The cooperation between Romania and Azerbaijan in the energy
    sector entails major benefits not only for the two countries, but for the
    security of Europe as a whole, Sebastian Burduja pointed out.


    UKRAINE The Russian army hit the port
    infrastructure in the region of Odessa (southern Ukraine) in an overnight
    missile attack that killed a security guard and damaged a cargo terminal, the
    local authorities announced on Thursday morning. The ports in the Odessa region,
    at the Black Sea or the Danube River, have turned into the preferred targets of
    the Russian army, after Moscow recently terminated a deal allowing Ukraine to
    export grains to international markets.


    MOLDOVA The Russian
    Federation will have to downsize its Chişinău Embassy personnel, according to a
    decision made by the Moldovan authorities and already communicated to Russia’s
    ambassador in that country. Russia will keep 10 diplomats and 15 technical and
    support personnel, on a par with the number of staff of the Moldovan embassy in
    Moscow. According to Moldova’s foreign minister Nicu Popescu, Moldova has been
    for decades the target of hostile policies and activities on the part of the
    Russian Federation, and many of the Russian embassy’s activities were aimed to
    destabilize the country. In Moscow, the foreign ministry spokesperson, Maria
    Zaharova, said the decision was ungrounded and a further step taken by Chişinău
    towards deteriorating bilateral relations.


    WEATHER The weather cools
    significantly in Romania, where after a heat wave with temperatures above 40
    degrees Celsius, the highs are expected to range only between 19 and 28
    degrees, with some 25 degrees reported in Bucharest at noon. Thunderstorms
    made victims the previous day, with a 64 year old woman dead as a tree uprooted
    by the wind fell over her car on the Transalpina
    road in Alba County, and two siblings in Botoşani County struck by lightning on
    a field. In Harghita County railroad transport was disrupted after several
    trees fell on the tracks, several localities in Iaşi County were left without
    drinking water and the Black Sea port of Constanţa was closed because of the
    strong wind.



    SPORTS
    The athletes Constantin Popovici and Cătălin Petru Preda won the first medals
    for the Romanian team at the 2023 World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka
    (Japan). Today they ranked first and second in the high diving competition.
    Popovici, 34, is Romania’s first world high diving champion. Twenty-three
    athletes took part in this event. (AMP)