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  • Sports Weekend

    Sports Weekend

    Romanian pugilist Lăcrămioara Perijoc will be fighting for the gold medal in the 54 kilogram category of the European Boxing Championships in Belgrade.

    In the semifinals on Thursday she outperformed Fay Niamh of Ireland and in the finals due on Sunday, Perijoc will be fighting the representative of the host country and the odds-on favourite Sara Cirkovici. In the 57 kg category, Claudia Nichita of Romania was left only with the silver medal after the defeat conceded to Bulgarian Svetlana Kamenova Staneva.

    After the races on Thursday, Romania has qualified with six teams at the European Rowing Championship underway in Szeged, Hungary. Among those qualified are the Romanian women’s double scull, the lightweight pair as well as the women’s eight. The Romanian women’s four, men’s four and eight ended on the second position in their races but are also directly qualified for the finals.

    Romanian tennis player Sorana Cîrstea on Thursday qualified for the third round of the WTA 1.000 tournament in Madrid, a competition with more than 7 hundred thousand Euros in prize money. In the second round, she secured a 6-3, 6-7, 6-4 win against Alexandra Eala of the Philippines. In the competition’s third round, the Romanian will be playing the winner of the match pitching this weekend the world’s leader Iga Swiatek of Poland and Xiyu Wang of China.

    This weekend will be seeing the matches counting towards Romania’s Football Super-league. On Friday Dinamo Bucureşti plays FC Voluntari. FCU Craiova will taking on Universitatea Cluj on Saturday. On Sunday, Hermannstadt goes to Galati in eastern Romania to play local side Oţelul, while UTA will be up against Poli Iasi. On Monday, Petrolul, on their own turf, will be playing FC Botoşani. Dinamo and FC U Craiova are on the last positions in the ranking and struggling to avoid demotion.

    On Saturday, FCSB will be playing Farul Constanţa in Bucharest and if they manage to get a draw, FCSB will mathematically become Romania’s champions three legs before the end of the season. On Sunday, CFR will be playing Sepsi in Cluj, western Romania, while on Monday Rapid Bucharest, on their own ground will be up against Universitatea Craiova.

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  • August 8, 2023

    August 8, 2023

    PENSIONS The
    Romanian MPs are expected to interrupt their summer holidays and resume
    activity in order to amend the special pensions law, after some provisions have
    been deemed as unconstitutional, the country’s Prime Minister, Marcel Ciolacu,
    has said. Ciolacu told a private TV channel the requests made by the
    constitutional judges would be subjected to talks in Brussels between the
    Romanian authorities and the European Commission representatives. Ciolacu has pledged
    to fly to Brussels this month to renegotiate several provisions in the
    country’s National Plan of Recovery and Resilience as well as the budget target
    of 4.4%. The government in Bucharest would rather the European Executive accepted
    a target of 5% of the GDP. The Prime Minister has explained that in the absence
    of a plan on curbing budget expenses and raising incomes, the budget would
    exceed 6.2%, which might prompt the EU to cut its funds for Romania.






    PILOTS 100 Romanian pilots, who in the past four months defended the NATO air
    space over Lithuania, are coming back home. There were many situations in which
    Russian Sukhoi warplanes were flying dangerously close to the NATO airspace and
    the Romanian pilots were sent to intercept those planes. The Romanians worked
    together with their colleagues from Portugal and NATO is permanently deploying air-force
    personnel and aircraft to that country as Lithuania doesn’t have its own
    fighter jets. Moreover, the area is notorious for the bold attempts of the
    Russian pilots to violate the NATO airspace. 16 years ago Romanian pilots were
    also involved in air policing missions in Lithuania on their upgraded MIG-21
    Lancers.








    SUPPORT
    Romania is ready to offer specialized assistance and support to the National
    Armed Forces of the Republic of Moldova, an ex-soviet, Romanian-speaking
    country, Romania’s National Defence Minister, Angel Tilvar, said in Chisinau
    during the talks he held on Monday with his Moldovan counterpart, Anatolie
    Nosatîi.
    The Moldovan servicemen have recently received from Romania Kevlar helmets,
    bullet-proof vests and all-terrain vehicles. The donation is part of Romania’s
    ongoing efforts to support the upgrading and streamlining of the defence
    structures in the neighbouring state. According to a press release by the
    Defence Ministry in Bucharest, the two officials have also tackled aspects concerning
    the latest developments in the regional security caused by the aggression war
    Russia is presently waging on Ukraine, with emphasis on the situations caused
    by the latest bombing of Ukraine’s ports on the Danube close to the borders
    with Romania and the Republic of Moldova.






    TENNIS Romanian
    tennis player, Sorana Cirstea, started off on the right foot at the WTA 1000
    tournament in Montreal, Canada with 2.800.000 dollars in prize money. The
    Romanian secured a two-set win 6-4, 7-6, against Varvara Gracheva of France in
    a match, which took place on Monday. In the second round Cirstea will be
    playing the winner of the match pitching Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic
    against Anastasia Potapova. If she won, the Romanian might play in the round of
    16 against top-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland, who plays Karolina Pliskova of the
    Czech Republic in the second round.






    FESTIVAL The
    24th edition of the international festival Enescu and the World’s
    Music kicks off today in the resort of Sinaia, southern Romania. Concerts are
    being held at the local casino, the city museum, the George Enescu Memorial,
    the Dimitrie Ghica park and the Catholic church. According to the organizers,
    this festival has been devoted to the young people and young orchestras and
    mainly to the winners of national and international contests. The event is also
    devoted to the famous Romanian artists who are involved in the process of
    training the young generation of musicians, as part of this Romanian project.
    The festival is due to end on August 31.


















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  • March 15, 2023 UPDATE

    March 15, 2023 UPDATE

    FUNDS The European Union is to earmark another 40 million Euros for the
    Republic of Moldova’s army after the latest scandal caused by Russia’s efforts
    to overthrow the pro-Western government in Chisinau. Most of the money will be
    spent on a mobile long-range radar, which would enable the Republic of Moldova to
    monitor its airspace. The rest of the money will be used to purchase light
    vehicles, buses, trucks, communication equipment as well as anti-hacking
    hardware and software. The money comes from the European Peace Fund, a common
    deposit of 8 billion Euros, created by the EU members. The most part of the
    aforementioned fund has been spent for Ukraine, a country invaded by the
    Russian troops. Moldovan authorities decided to buy the radar, after Russia had
    in the past months fired several missiles through the Moldovan air space to hit
    targets in Ukraine.










    PARTNERS On Wednesday in Sofia, Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis and his
    Bulgarian counterpart, Rumen Radev signed the declaration on the Strategic
    Partnership between the two neighboring countries. The document provides for stepping
    up the political dialogue, fostering economic exchanges and cross-border
    cooperation, improving connectivity and the infrastructures of the two
    countries, promoting the projects on developing the Danube region, ensuring
    energy security and promoting the green energy. The aforementioned partnership also
    refers to cooperation in the field of European affairs, to strengthening cooperation
    in the field of defence and security against the background of the
    Russian-Ukrainian war so that the support for Kyiv may continue, to strengthening
    NATO’s eastern flank and reestablishing a security climate in the Black Sea
    area. President Iohannis said that Romania and Bulgaria would carry on their common
    efforts to join Europe’s border-free area, Schengen, as both countries are completely
    ready. In turn, Rumen Radev said that more efforts would be made for a more
    rapid Schengen accession adding that in the past six months, both Romania and
    Bulgaria had successfully fought the wave of illegal migrants significantly reducing
    it.






    BOOK
    The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York has announced a campaign for launching
    the English version of Mircea Cartarescu’s novel ‘Solenoid’ in the USA over
    April 3 and 14. The book, translated by Sean Cotter, was published by Deep
    Vellum last autumn. The tour will include five cities in North America: San
    Francisco, Seattle, Dallas, Houston and New York. According to the same
    sources, the book will be presented in famous places like City Lights
    Bookstore, Seattle Public Library, UT Dallas, Inprint Publishing and McNally Jackson
    Books Seaport.










    TENNIS
    The Romanian tennis player
    Sorana Cirstea has qualified for the quarter finals of the WTA 1000 tournament
    at Indian Wells, California, with 8.8 million dollars in prize money. She
    defeated the world’s no. 5 Caroline Garcia 6-4, 4-6, 7-5. In the next round,
    Sorana will take on the Polish Iga Swiatek, the world leader, who passed by the
    British player of Romanian descent Emma Raducanu. The two players have met once
    before, at the 2022 Australian Open, when Swiatek won.




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