15 June, 2016
President Klaus Iohannis travels to neighbouring Bulgaria; Romania play Switzerland tonight at EURO 2016.
Newsroom, 15.06.2016, 12:00
Romania’s president
Klaus Iohannis pays an official visit to Bulgaria today and tomorrow for talks
with his Bulgarian counterpart Rosen Plevneliev and prime minister Boyko
Borissov. They will discuss ways to develop economic and trade cooperation,
Romania’s partnership with Bulgaria within NATO and the European Union,
collaboration in south-eastern Europe and the security situation in the region.
Romania’s president and his Bulgarian counterpart will also attend the opening
of the Romanian-Bulgarian Business Forum. Romania is Bulgaria’s third largest
trade partner in Europe. President Iohannis will visit the building site of the
Giurgiu-Ruse gas pipeline, an important project for the energy security of the
two states and the region. He will also meet representatives of the Romanian
ethnic community in Bulgaria and visit the Mihai Eminescu High School in Sofia,
which provides teaching in Romanian.
The issue
of visas for Romanian citizens travelling to Canada is the main subject of a
trip to this country by Romania’s prime minister Dacian Ciolos on the 14th
and 15th of June. He is due to meet his counterpart Justin Trudeau
in Ottawa and the General Governor of Canada David Johnston, as well as
members of the Romanian community. This is the first Romanian-Canadian meeting
at prime minister level in the last 10 years. The nationals of Romania and
Bulgaria are the only ones in the European Union still needing visas to travel
to Canada.
The International Monetary Fund warns that Romania may
see its economy grow by even 4% a year, but only if it stimulates investments,
steps up the absorption of European funds and solves the problems facing state
companies. A former head of the IMF mission to Romania, Jeffrey Franks said,
however, that he would prefer to see Romania grow by 3.5% every year for ten
years rather than see it grow by 4.5% for five years and then witness an
economic crisis.
The Constitutional Court of Romania today resumes debates
on a Criminal Code article about abuse of office, following a complaint that
its text is ambiguous and unconstitutional. The complaint was signed by former
ministers and a former head of the anti-mafia body who have been indicted for
abuse of office. The chief prosecutor of the National Anticorruption
Directorate Laura Codruta Kovesi warned that a possible decriminalisation in
this case would make it impossible to recover the losses caused as a result of
abuse of office, which last year amounted to 620 million euros. 40% of the
cases under investigation at the moment refer to abuse of office. In response,
the National Union of Judges sent Kovesi a public letter urging her to put an
end to what it described as pressures on the Constitutional Court before this
is due to make public its ruling.
Romania meet
Switzerland today in Paris in their second Group A match at EURO 2016. In the
same group, France play Albania in Marseille. In their opening match last
Friday, Romania lost to host country France 1-2, while Switzerland defeated
Albania 1-nil on Saturday. On Tuesday in the first Group F matches, Hungary
defeated Austria 2-nil, while Portugal drew against Iceland 1-all.
Romania’s rugby side defeated Uruguay 40-nil in Bucharest
on Tuesday in a World Rugby Nations Cup game. The game, which started on Monday
night, was stopped after 28 minutes because of a thunderstorm, while Romania
was leading 18-nil. In their first game last week, Romania defeated Namibia
20-8. On Saturday, they will play Argentina for the trophy. This is the tenth
time Romania plays host to the World Rugby Nations Cup, an important event in
the rugby calendar. (Translated by: C. Mateescu)
5
renowned European radio orchestras to attend RadiRo Festival 2016!
8
concerts in 8 days of festival, 5 European radio orchestras, 16 conductors and
soloists who hold the headline of the international musical scene: this is how
the name card of the RadiRo Festival looks like in 2016, featuring a
spectacular mix of the classical, modern and contemporary repertoire. The
honorary director of the festival will be Kristjan Järvi, principal conductor
of the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Organized
by Radio Romania, the RadiRo Festival, which is the only international musical
event exclusively dedicated to radio ensembles in Europe, will take place in
Bucharest from September 24th to October 1st, 2016.
The
festival will showcase European radio ensembles who have made the history of
the special dialogue between radio and classical music in the last half of a
century: the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the MDR Radio Symphony
Orchestra, the ORF Radio – Symphonie Orchester Wien, the BBC Concert
Orchestra and, the host of the event, the Romanian Radio National Orchestra.
By means of their
unique magical way of performing, which has won the wide acclaim from both
critics and the audience, famous scores will take new life in the hands of
violinists Gidon Kremer and Alexandru Tomescu, pianists Stefano Bollani, Vadym
Kholodenko and Denis Kozhukhin, cellist Răzvan Suma, together with Tine Thing
Helseth – trumpet and other soloists instrumentalists of the guest orchestras.
Innovative approaches will come one after another under the baton of renowned
conductors like Miguel Harth – Bedoya, Cristian Măcelaru, Cornelius Meister,
Leo Hussain, Barry Wordsworth and Kristjan Järvi.
Subscriptions to RadiRo
2016 will go on sale starting from June 15th 2016 and will be
available on www.eventim.ro.
