May 22nd, 2014
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Mihai Pelin, 22.05.2014, 12:00
More than 50 people have been reported dead and around 1.6 million others have been worst-hit by the most serious calamities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the last century. The state of high alert has been declared in Serbia, while more than 30 thousand people were evacuated from the flood-stricken areas. The situation is even worse in the north-eastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where a quarter of the country’s four million people has been deprived of drinkable water resources and more than 100 thousand houses were destroyed. Concurrently with the rescue teams’ efforts, a growing number of states. among which Romania, have offered their support for the hardest-hit people of the two countries.
Steaua Bucharest is Romania’s football champion team this season. It is the second title in a row Steaua Bucharest has won, and the 25th in the history of Romania’s most prized club. Steaua will also be playing Romania’s Cup final, against the season’s runner-up team Astra Giurgiu. For the 2014-2015 football season, Steaua will also be proving their mettle in the Champions League preliminaries, while Astra Giurgiu and Petrolul from Ploiesti will be playing in the preliminaries of the Europa League. Competition-wise, Dinamo Bucharest have legally earned their right to play in Europa League, but the Romanian team might lose this right because of the club’s pending financial problems. If the case, CFR from Clujj could replace Dinamo in the aforementioned competition.
House of Europe is the foundation that in Bucharest on Thursday has staged the fourth edition of the forum dedicated to Europe’s Maritime Day. The event is held under the aegis of the European Commission — with joint support from Romania’s Senate, the Foreign Affairs Ministry the Romanian Academy and the Romanian Banking Institute. The theme of the from this year is “Promoting an Intelligent Entrepreneurship, against the backdrop of innovative action taken for the Danube – Black Sea region. “ Europe’s Maritime Day was set up in 2008, and its eventual aim is to provide an enhanced visibility for maritime Europe.
At least 31 people Thursday have been killed and several dozen others have been wounded in coup in Urumqi, the capital of the Chinese Muslim region Xinjiang. Two terrain vehicles drove into a market place bumping into the crowd, while from the inside makeshift bombe were thrown, causing a series of powerful blasts. Xinjiang is the theatre for an upsurge of violence that broke between the predominantly Uighur Turkish-speaking Muslim population and the ethnic Chinese, millions of whom have been relocated to the region in the past decades.
A censure motion tabled by the opposition National Liberal Party has been read today in the joint Senate and Deputy Chambers plenary, while the vote is scheduled this coming Monday. The main accusations the motion has been targeting at the government have to do with the government’s failing to enforce tax exemption measures for reinvested profit and to bring social insurance contributions down by 5 per cent. The government’s budget Minister delegate Liviu Voinea promised the measure targeting the social insurance contribution would be implemented as of July the 1st.
Euro-parliamentarian elections today have started in the Netherlands and Great Britain. This year, the ballot faces the threat of Euro-phobic parties gaining ground in some of the Union’s most important countries, according to the AFP. Almost 13 million Dutch people are to elect 26 Euro deputies, while in the UK around 46 million people are summoned to the polls to make their decision on the distribution of the country’s 73 seats for the European Parliament. In the days to come, around 400 million people are to go to the polls in the European Unions 28 countries, to vote for 751 Euro deputies, for a five-year term in office. Romanian has 32 Euro-parliamentarian seats, while the ballot is to be held on Sunday, May 25.
The European Union will earmark 120 Million Euro for Agriculture and Rural Development to the Republic of Moldova over 2014-2020, the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, the Romanian Dacian Ciolos has stated in Chisinau today. The first 64-million Euro payment will be approved by the Commission by July this year, Ciolos also stated. Ciolos went on to say the financial aid would support the Republic of Moldova’s competitiveness, after the signing of the free trade Agreement, scheduled for May 27. Dacian Ciolos and the European Union’s Commissioners for Internal Affairs Cecilia Malmstrom are on a joint two-day visit to Chisinau. High on the two EU officials agenda are talks with the Republic of Moldova’s president Nicolae Timofti, the country’s Prime Minister Iurie Leanca and the president of the Parliament Igor Corman.
