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  • July 23, 2017 UPDATE

    July 23, 2017 UPDATE

    Ukraine – French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss on Monday over the phone with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko about the conflict in eastern Ukraine, France Press announced. This is one of a series of talks held by the four officials in the past three years, in an attempt to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine that has made over 10 thousand victims. The ceasefire agreement signed in February 2015 in Minsk did not end violence between the pro-Russian separatists and the government forces, with the two parties accusing each other of having broken the truce.




    Summer School — The mountain resort of Sinaia, in southern Romania, is hosting a Summer School on the Romanian exile after the war, which started on Sunday and will end on July 27th. The course is organised by the Institute for the Investigation of the Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile, the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Culture Ministry and Peles National Museum. The course is aimed at better understanding the post-war communist phenomenon by young people from Romania and abroad and is addressing students who attend masters and PhD graduate programmes in Romania and abroad and who plan to work on projects about the Romanian post-war exile.




    Border – Traffic through the Romanian border checkpoints increased in the first half of the year by 7% as against the same period last year, to 26.8 million people. According to the Romanian Border Police, 22.4 million were EU citizens. Also, around 7.5 million vehicles crossed the Romanian border in the first six months of 2017, the same number as last year.




    Gulf crisis – Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday started a two-day visit to three Gulf countries, Namely Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar, in an effort to help resolve the dispute between Qatar and four other Arab states, namely Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. The four states accuse authorities in Doha of financing extremist groups and of forging an alliance with Iran, the rival of the Arab states in the Gulf. Turkey has stood by Qatar since Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties and imposed air, sea and land blockade on Doha last month. Political analysts say that ever since the beginning of the crisis Turkey has been trying to play the role of a mediator, but its ambiguous position and its support for Qatar diminished its chances to succeed.




    Tennis — Romanian Irina Camelia Begu, no. 58 in the world, defeated on Sunday Julia Goerges of Germany (WTA’s 45th seed) in the BRD Bucharest Open final, with 227 thousand dollars in prize money. Begu won in two sets, 6-3, 7-5. This is the first final played by Irina Begu this year, after last year’s one in Florianopolis, Brazil, when she defeated Hungary’s Timea Babos. Irina Begu has so far won four WTA tournaments.




    Gold medal – The Romanian team made up of Vasile-Mihaita Tiganescu and Cosmin Pascari won the gold medal in men’s pair final at the 2017 World Rowing Under 23 Championships held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Also, the team made up of Cristina-Georgiana Popescu, Alina Ligia Pop, Beatrice-Madalina Parfenie and Roxana Parascanu won silver at women’s four final of the same competition.


    (Translated by Elena Enache)




  • July 23, 2017

    July 23, 2017

    Ukraine – French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss on Monday over the phone with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko about the conflict in eastern Ukraine, France Press announced. This is one of a series of talks held by the four officials in the past three years, in an attempt to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine that has made over 10 thousand victims. The ceasefire agreement signed in February 2015 in Minsk did not end violence between the pro-Russian separatists and the government forces, with the two parties accusing each other of having broken the truce.




    Summer School — The mountain resort of Sinaia, in southern Romania, is hosting a Summer School on the Romanian exile after the war, which starts today and ends on July 27th. The course is organised by the Institute for the Investigation of the Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile, the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Culture Ministry and Peles National Museum. The course is aimed at better understanding the post-war communist phenomenon by young people from Romania and abroad and is addressing students who attend masters and PhD graduate programmes in Romania and abroad and who plan to work on projects about the Romanian post-war exile.





    Border – Traffic through the Romanian border checkpoints increased in the first half of the year by 7% as against the same period last year, to 26.8 million people. According to the Romanian Border Police, 22.4 million were EU citizens. Also, around 7.5 million vehicles crossed the Romanian border in the first six months of 2017, the same number as last year.




    Gulf crisis – Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is today starting a two-day visit to the Gulf in an effort to help resolve the dispute between Qatar and four other Arab states, namely Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. The four states accuse authorities in Doha of financing extremist groups and of forging an alliance with Iran, the rival of the Arab states in the Gulf. Today Erdogan is expected to arrive in Saudi Arabia for a meeting with King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He will then depart for Kuwait and later Qatar. Turkey has stood by Qatar since Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties and imposed air, sea and land blockade on Doha last month. Political analysts say that ever since the beginning of the crisis Turkey has been trying to play the role of a mediator, but its ambiguous position and its support for Qatar diminished its chances to succeed.




    BRD Bucharest Open — Romanian tennis player Irina Camelia Begu, no. 58 in the world is today playing against German Julia Goerges, WTA’s 45th seed, in the final of the BRD Bucharest Open with 227 thousand dollars in prize money. Also today, Irina Begu will team up with another Romanian, Raluca Olaru, in the final of the women’s doubles, against the Belgian-Dutch team Elise Martens/Demis Schuurs.




    Injured – 12 US soldiers who participated in a night parachute jump in the Swift Response 17 exercise at Campia Turzii Air Base were injured. They received emergency medical treatment and were transported to the Cluj-Napoca Military Hospital for further investigations. Most of the injuries suffered were caused during landing. Eleven of the injured soldiers have already been released from hospital.




    Gold medal – The Romanian team made up of Vasile-Mihaita Tiganescu and Cosmin Pascari won the gold medal in men’s pair final at the 2017 World Rowing Under 23 Championships held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Also, the team made up of Cristina-Georgiana Popescu, Alina Ligia Pop, Beatrice-Madalina Parfenie and Roxana Parascanu won silver at women’s four final of the same competition.


    (Translated by Elena Enache)







  • July 22, 2017 UPDATE

    July 22, 2017 UPDATE

    Summer School — The mountain resort of Sinaia, in southern Romania, is hosting a Summer School on the Romanian exile after the war, which starts on Sunday and ends on July 27th. The course is organised by the Institute for the Investigation of the Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile, the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Culture Ministry and Peles National Museum. The course is aimed at better understanding the post-war communist phenomenon by young people from Romania and abroad and is addressing students who attend masters and PhD graduate programmes in Romania and abroad and who plan to worked on projects about the Romanian post-war exile.




    Warsaw– Polands upper house of parliament has approved a Supreme Court overhaul, seen by the opposition as aimed to undermine democratic checks and balances. The opposition and judges groups in Poland, as well as critics in Brussels, say the legislation is a new step by the Polish government towards authoritarianism. The parliament pushed through the change to the Supreme Court, which gives the government power to select candidates for the court. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the capital Warsaw and other cities to protest against the draft bill. To become law, the bill needs to be signed by President Andrzej Duda. The European Union and the United have recently urged Poland to ensure any changes respect the constitution.




    Hungary – Hungary will continue to promote its national interests to the detriment of Brussels’ policy, where an alliance of the elites and bureaucrats has formed, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said on Saturday at the Summer University in Baile Tusnad, in central Romania. Orban also said that Budapest would fight to protect Poland from possible sanctions from the EU, after the Parliament in Warsaw had passed a bill imposing tighter political controls over the judicial system, which comes against EU principles and which triggered mass protests in Poland.




    Air Show — Thousands of people took part in the 9th edition of the Bucharest International Air Show held on Saturday at Baneasa Airport in Romania’s capital city. Attending were professionals of the civil and military aviation from Romania, Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Britain, Germany, the US, Greece, Austria and Lithuania. Over 100 civil and military aircraft and 200 pilots and parachutists took part in this year’s Bucharest International Air Show. A General Aviation Exhibition was also opened on this occasion at Baneasa Airport.




    White House – Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is the White House new press secretary, replacing Sean Spicer who has resigned. The media sees Spicers resignation as a protest over President Trump’s decision to bring in new people. Sarah Huckabee Sanders gained prominence in recent months as she has taken on more public-facing duties on President Donald Trumps communication team. During her first appearance as press secretary, Sanders said taking the job at the White House is “one of the greatest honours that any person could ever have.”




    International Tennis Federation — The coach of Romania’s Fed Cup team, the former tennis player Ilie Năstase, said Saturday in a Facebook post that he is disappointed but not surprised by the recent decision of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and that he will seek justice by appealing the decision at an independent body. We remind you that on Friday the International Tennis Federation announced that Nastase was suspended from any official position he was holding until 2021 because, according to the ITF, at a match held in Romania against the UK, in April, he used insulting words against Romania’s adversaries, against a referee and a journalist. Also Ilie Năstase received a fine worth 10 thousand dollars. According to the president of the Romanian Tennis Federation, George Cosac, the ITF’s decision is too tough and the accusations leveled against Năstase exaggerated. Năstase and the Romanian Tennis Federation can appeal the decision in an independent court in 3 weeks time.


    (Translated by Elena Enache)