August 3, 2015
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România Internațional, 03.08.2015, 12:00
At least a quarter of crops in Romania have already been damaged by the draught – farmers representatives estimates show. They have called for financial aid from the authorities to be able to continue their activity. They say they cannot protect their crops from draught or frost and that aid is provided too late to be able to save their crops.
The main Athens stock index has fallen by 22.87% as trading resumed Monday after a 5-week closure. On June 29th the Greek government closed down banks and imposed capital flow restrictions in the context of massive money withdrawals from banks by the Greek citizens amid their fears triggered by the suspension of talks between Greece and its international creditors, the EU and the IMF. Subsequently, on July 20th, the Greek banks reopened. At present, the international creditors representatives are negotiating with the Greek authorities the conditions for granting a 3rd financial aid package worth up to 86 billion euros. The technical negotiations are expected to end by August 12th and a final agreement to be reached by August 18th.
As many as 1,700 intrusion attempts by clandestine migrants have been reported Sunday night near Calais, in northern France, in the Channel Tunnel area. A policeman was wounded by the stone thrown by a Sudanese migrant who was eventually apprehended. The tunnel linking France to Great Britain has been for several weeks the place through which more migrants have been trying to reach the UK, which they see as their “eldorado in terms of social protection. Last week the French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, announced the number of policemen deployed in the area was increased. Also Paris ald London have shown willingness to put an end together to this issue.
Romania has obtained alongside Ukraine and Turkey 4 seats in the board of the World Tartar Forum Council whose congress unfolded last weekend in Ankara. The president of the Democratic Union of Turkic-Muslim Tatars in Romania, Gelil Ezerghep, said the participants in the congress were impressed by the level and quality of the rights enjoyed by this ethnic minority in Romania at national level. Most of the almost 25 thousand Tatar Romanians are located in Dobrogea, a province in south eastern Romania, that for hundreds of years has been under Ottoman rule.
The Romanian tennis player Simona Halep is still 3rd ranked in the WTA classification that was published on Monday. First ranked is American Serena Williams while second-placed is Russian Maria Sharapova. Other Romanian women tennis players are also included in the top 100. Irina Begu went up one place and is now on the best position of her entire career, 29th, Monica Niculescu went down one place to 39th position, Alexandra Dulgheru dropped 2 places to 49th position like Andreea Mitu who reach the 74th position. Another up-and-coming Romanian woman tennis player Irina Ţig has made a spectacular leap of 39 places climbing on 115th position in the WTA ranking although she lost the final of the WTA tournament hosted by Baku Azerbaijan, Sunday, to Russian Margarita Gasparian.
The famous French DJ David Guetta performed Sunday night in Cluj Napoca on the last day of the greatest 4-day festival of the summer devoted to electro-dance music, namely the Untold Festival. 180 Romanian and foreign artists have given concerts on the 8 stages mounted in various areas of Cluj Napoca. Among them were Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike, Avicii, ATB and Armin Van Buuren. The Untold festival was the main event of the Cluj-Napoca 2015- a European Capital of Youth project. Cluj is the 7th city of Europe to hold this title.
