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VISIT Currently on a visit to Romania, the EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, Corina Cretu, on Saturday met local authorities in the Alba county, a region in Central Romania with a higher level of EU-funds absorption. The EU official referred to the way in which the Romanian authorities are presently taking action with a view to developing the country's transport infrastructure. According to Commissioner Cretu, since 2014, when she took over her mandate in Brussels, the Romanian authorities have applied for EU funding only in the case of 4 big infrastructure projects. Corina Cretu also criticized the bureaucracy, which is hindering the implementation of some viable projects and gave as an example the Sibiu-Pitesti highway, which cannot be funded with EU money because works are underway on two of its sections without the required environmental permits. During a public debate in Cluj, north-western Romania on Friday, commissioner Cretu said that Bucharest managed an absorption rate of 20% between 2007-2013 and lost 2 billion euros destined to transport infrastructure. The EU commissioner also criticized the delayed works at the three regional hospitals in Romania.
ROWING Romanians Ionela-Livia Cozmiuc and Gianina-Elena Beleaga reaped gold in the lightweight double scull race of the World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on Saturday. Also on Saturday Marius-Vasile Cozmiuc and Ciprian Tudosa reaped silver in the men's pair while Romania's men four ended the race on the fifth position. On Sunday our men's double, women's and men's eight will also be vying for a medal in Plovdiv.
CLEANUP Saturday saw the National Cleanup Day, an event staged by 'Let's Do it, Romania!' foundation, which has reached its sixth edition this year. 'Let's Do it, Romania!' is the largest social movement in this country, which has so far involved the participation of 1.4 million volunteers who have gathered over 18 thousand tons of waste. The event is part of the international action plan World Cleanup Day, unfolding under the aegis of 'Let's Do it, World' and the United Nations Environment Programme UNEP. The objective of the World Cleanup Day is to mobilize 5% of the world population in order to change people's attitude towards the proper waste management and disposal and could be considered the most ambitious civic initiative at world level ever. The Romanian organizers want to mobilize one million volunteers who could get actively involved in cleanup operations. The Let's Do it, World movement was born in 2008, when Estonia staged its first national cleanup day.
COMMEMORATION The mountain resort of Busteni in southern Romania on Saturday saw a series of events aimed at commemorating WWI heroes, celebrating the Great Union and 90 years since the inauguration of the Heroes Cross on the Caraiman Peak. Situated at an altitude of 2291 meters, the Cross was erected upon the initiative of Queen Marie of Romania in memory of Romania's WWI heroes. The monument has been recognized by the GuinNess World Records as the largest summit cross.
TENNIS Romania and Poland are running neck and neck after the first day of the third round of the Davis Cup's Group 2, the Europe/Africa zone. It's one-all now after Adrian Ungur conceded a 7-6, 7-5 defeat to Hubert Hurkacz. Romania's Marius Copil defeated Kamil Majchrzak 6-2, 6-4 in the first game on Saturday. Sunday will see the double match Florin Mergea/Horia Tecau versus Lukasz Kubot/Marcin Matkowski. The last singles on Sunday will be opposing Copil to Hurkacz and Ungur to Majchrzak. The victor side will advance to the Davis Cup's Group l, Europe/Africa zone from which Romania was demoted late last year.
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