August 8, 2024
A roundup of the main local and world news
Newsroom, 08.08.2024, 13:45
LAW The government in Bucharest is today expected to endorse a series of legislative amendments aimed at stepping up criminal investigations in the case of sexual harassment in public institutions. The move comes after a series of sexual harassment cases have been reported in universities across the country. The new amendments are meant to ease the prosecutors’ access to notifications on this type of aggression, even if anonymous. We recall that criminal investigations have been launched against some university teaching staffers after former female students have denounced this type of behaviour. The government is also expected to amend the law on physical education and sports allowing the central public administration to earmark state funds to private sports clubs in order to support and develop their facilities for the training of the young generation. The government is also focusing on an a bill aimed at boosting the SMEs entitled Start-up Nation Romania 2024, funded through non-reimbursable external funds.
SHIP ‘Romanian training vessel ’Mircea’ has been one of the most effective, smartest and well-trained ambassadors Romania has had in the past century, the country’s Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu’ said upon the ship’s entry into the military port of Constanta, south-eastern Romania on Thursday, at the end of a six-week training voyage around the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. 86 cadets of the ‘Mircea the Old’ Naval Academy and 8 cadets from partner academies in Bulgaria, Latvia, Poland, Spain and Turkey were on board of the ship during the voyage. ‘Mircea’ set sail from Constanta on June 26th and its voyage included stopovers in Piraeus, Greece, Livorno, Italy, Toulon, France, Palermo, Italy and Bodrum, Turkey. ‘Mircea’ is a sailing sip built in Hamburg over 1938-1939, and since its maiden voyage, it has completed 45 training trips through the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean.
OLYMPICS Romanian athletes are today competing in four Olympic disciplines in Paris: athletics, rhythmic gymnastics, kayak-canoe and wrestling. On Wednesday night, weightlifter Mihaela Valentina Cambei won silver in the 49 kg. category. Also on Wednesday, Catalin Chirila, world champion in 2022 and world vice-champion in 2023, directly qualified for the semifinals of the 1000 m. single canoe race after winning the third tier with a fresh Olympic record. Romania has so far won eight Olympic medals, three gold, four silver and one bronze and is currently ranking 14th in the nations standings.
FOOTBALL Two Romanian football sides are today taking on their opponents in the Conference League’s play-offs, the third inter-continental competition. The vice-champions, CFR Cluj, will be up against Israeli side Maccabi Petah Tikva in Sofia, Bulgaria, while Romania’s cup holder Corvinul Hunedoara will be playing FC Astana of Kazakhstan in a home game. In another development, Romania’s champions FCSB ended in a one-all draw their away match against Sparta Prague on Tuesday in the first round of the Champions League’s third preliminary leg. The return match is due in Bucharest on 13 August.
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