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  • Sports Flash

    Sports Flash

    Romanian athlete Luca Joldea won the bronze medal in the 10m air pistol individual event at the European Shooting Championships held in Croatia, in Osijek. We recall that on Monday, Laura Georgeta Ilie won gold in the women’s individual event, as well as bronze in the women’s team event, in the 10m air rifle.

     

    Volleyball club Alba Blaj has qualified to CEV Cup final in women’s volleyball, after defeating the Hungarian side Vasas Budapest 3-0 at home in the second leg of the semi-finals. The Romanian vice-champions had also won the first leg 3-2, and will play the CEV final for the third time. The team from Blaj has played four European finals so far, losing all of them: the Champions League final seven years ago, then the CEV Cup in 2019 and 2023, and finally the Challenge Cup in 2021.

     

    The men’s basketball team U-BT Cluj-Napoca was knocked out from the EuroCup. The Romanian champions on Wednesday lost away from home to the Spanish club Valencia Basket, score 98-74, in the quarterfinals. The Spanish team prevailed after controlling the game from minute one. The best players for Cluj were Americans Zach Hankins, with 12 points and 13 rebounds, and Zavier Simpson, with 12 points and 10 assists. U-BT Cluj-Napoca played the EuroCup quarterfinals for the second year in a row, after qualifying directly from the group in 2024.

     

    On Wednesday, the interim president of Romania, Ilie Bolojan, awarded former football legend Gheorghe Hagi the highest distinction of the Romanian state – the “Star of Romania” National Order in rank of Knight. A member of the so-called “Golden Generation” of Romanian football, Hagi totaled 124 caps for the Romanian team, and was team captain 65 times. Gheorghe Hagi represented Romania in three editions of the World Cup, namely in 1990 in Italy, then in 1994 in the United States, and in 1998 in France. At the same time, Hagi took part in three European Championships, namely in 1984 in France as a reserve, and in the first lineup in 1996 in England, and in 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands. He is considered the best Romanian player of all time. Among the teams he played for were Steaua Bucharest, Real Madrid and Barcelona.

     

    Gloria Sports Club 2018 Bistriţa-Năsăud will change its name to CS Gloria Bistriţa. The change comes as a result of an association agreement that will be signed between the Bistriţa-Năsăud County Council, which controls the interest in the club, and the Bistriţa City Hall, the county seat. This year, the club’s women’s handball team played in the women’s Champions League, where it reached the group phase. (VP)

  • Romania and its strategic partnerships

    Romania and its strategic partnerships

    Launched in July 1997, on the occasion of the visit to Bucharest of the then leader of the White House, Bill Clinton, the Strategic Partnership between Romania and the USA represents an essential landmark of Bucharest’s foreign policy and, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs underlines, an effective support tool for the domestic efforts in the field of political, economic, military and administrative reform. In the context of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the year 2020 marked new ways to strengthen this partnership, through the mutual support that the two countries gave each other, whether it was to facilitate the air transport of medical materials in Romania, repatriation of citizens or exchange of experience and help by deploying a medical team from Bucharest to the state of Alabama.

    2020 was also the year of the 140th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic relations, a time of reflection and projection into the future, with the confidence rendered by the fact that the ties between our countries are stronger than ever, President Klaus Iohannis said at the ceremony at which the US Ambassador to Romania, Adrian Zuckerman, at the end of his term, due to the change in the US administration, was decorated with the National Order Star of Romania in the rank of Grand Cross.

    2021 is the year of celebration of a decade since the conclusion of the Joint Declaration on the Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century between Bucharest and Washington and the Agreement on the location of the US missile defense system in Romania, said the head of state, expressing his conviction that together with the new US administration, the development of the partnership and strong relationship of trust between the two countries, built on common values ​​and interests, will continue.

    The president also recalled the progress made in the past years and the major bilateral projects in the field of security and defense, economy and energy cooperation. Romania is an amazing country, a country with a bright future and with an unlimited potential, ambassador Adrian Zuckerman said in his turn, recalling the fact that he was born in Romania.

    Another foreign bridge, this time in the relation with France, was consolidated thanks to the talks between the Romanian Prime Minister Florin Cîțu and his French counterpart, Jean Castex. I was glad to see the continuity of bilateral relations between France and Romania, relations that have a long and successful history in several fields. Besides the discussions regarding the evolution of the pandemic and the vaccination process in the two countries, we stressed once again the importance of French companies in the process of Romania’s economic recovery , the Romanian prime minister wrote on his Facebook page, after the telephone conversation. In turn, the French official, expressed the full support that France will continue to give to Romania in all joint projects. (M. Ignatescu)