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May 28, 2017
May 28, 2017

, 28.05.2017, 13:42

DAY The Day of the Romanians the world over is celebrated today as every year on the last Sunday in May through a series of cultural events taking place both in Romania and abroad. The government has completed a fresh law package to come to the support of the Romanians living outside Romanias borders. The law currently in force is ten years old and it needed a series of amendments, field minister Andreea Pastarnac told Radio Romania. According to statistics, over 2 million Romanians are working legally outside the country, most of them in countries members of the EU. The largest Romanian communities are in Italy and Spain. The two countries will today be seeing a series of cultural events to mark this special day. Bucharest is today hosting a seminar entitled ‘The Romanian Language Closer to Home. In an address on this occasion, Romanian president Klaus Iohannis said that he wished these Romanians may support each other and participate in decisions that might affect their life.



MARATHON Romanian-born athlete Raphael Igrisianu, who has been living in Germany for the past 20 years and who holds the world record of running with a basketball, on Saturday won the International Marathon in Sibiu, central Romania. He covered the distance in two hours and 52 minutes in support for a cultural project aimed at educating children through music. Igrisianu has so far run in 60 international marathons being one of the best-known Romanian marathoners. 32 hundred people from Romania and abroad ran in the Sibiu marathon race.



G7 US president Donald Trump might withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, sources quoted by Reuters have announced. Trump has announced on a social network that he will make a decision in this respect next week after G7 leaders have failed to convince him on the importance of this agreement. The summit of the worlds richest countries ended in Sicily on Saturday without an agreement on the fight against the global warming. The G7 leaders have signed a common stance against protectionism and bad trade practices as well as a common accord on fighting terrorism.



VISIT During the visit he paid to the Vatican, Romanian state secretary Victor Micula has had a meeting with the secretary general of SantEgidio community, Alberto Quattrucci, and other members from the community leadership. According to Foreign Ministry communiqué, the Romanian official has on this occasion voiced appreciation for the activity of more than 20 years of the SantEgidio community in Romania and for the special attention paid to developing relations with Bucharest and its readiness to cooperate in various ecumenical and international humanitarian programmes. Talks focused on the activity the SantEgidio community – a lay movement of Catholic inspiration set up in 1968 in Rome and now present in over 70 countries – is carrying out at international level in the humanitarian, social, educational and sanitary fields, in fighting poverty and helping the needy and migrants.




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