September 15, 2019

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Newsroom, 15.09.2019, 14:16

FESTIVAL The George Enescu International Festival, which has
Radio Romania as co-producer, has reached its 16th day. This Sunday will be
seeing concerts given by the radio choir and the National Orchestra of the
Romanian Radio Brodcasting Corporation under the baton of British conductor
Paul Daniel. The Romanian artists will be performing fragments from Benjamin
Britten’s opera, Peter Grimes. This year’s edition of the festival, which is
due to come to an end on September 22nd, is expected to bring together 25 hundred of the world’s best
musicians who will be performing in no less than 84 concerts and recitals. Events
part of this festival are to be hosted by the Romanian capital and other cities
across the country as well as by countries like Germany, France, Italy, Canada
and the Republic of Moldova. Radio Romania has been co-producer of this
festival since its very first edition back in 1958.

USR A congress of the opposition Save Romania Union (USR)
has today validated Dan Barna to run for the presidential seat and has elected
the new members of the National Office. We recall that USR has forged an
alliance with PLUS, the party of Romania’s technocratic Prime Minister Dacian
Ciolos. Barna is the candidate of this USR-PLUS alliance for the presidential
election in Romania in November.

IRAN An
Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander on Sunday said that U.S. bases and
aircraft carriers in the region were within range of Iranian missiles. The
statement comes after the United States has accused Iran of leading attacks on
Saudi oil plants, raising tensions in the Middle East. US president Donald Trump
has condemned the drone attack, carried out by Iranian-backed rebels, which knocked
out more than half of the Kingdom’s output. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
has accused Iran of being behind the attack underlining that the USA is ready
to work with its partners and allies to
ensure that energy markets remain well supplied and Iran is held accountable
for its aggression.

VOTING Deadline
for the Romanians abroad to register as voters for the upcoming presidential
election is tonight at midnight. Voters can either apply to cast their ballot
at a certain polling station or may opt for postal voting. 39 thousand applications
have so far been registered for postal voting, whereas 37 thousand people prefer
polling stations. Diplomatic missions can present proposals for polling
stations abroad to the Foreign Ministry until October 19th. We
recall that the election’s first round is on November 10th and the
second round two weeks later.

VOLLEYBALL Romania’s national volleyball side today playes Italy in
group A of the European Championships in Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovenia and
France. Romania conceded defeat to France in their first game. In the same
group Portugal will be up against France also today. Bulgaria ranks first in
group A, while Romania occupies the last but one position with no points. The
first four sides in the group qualify for the round of 16.

(translated by bill)