January 21, 2023 UPDATE
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Newsroom, 21.01.2023, 19:20
ASYLUM Romania’s immigration department on Friday registered 40 asylum applications.
Most of these, 24, were filed by citizens from Bangladesh. The General
Inspectorate for Immigration has also issued 394 permits for those who applied
for temporary protection, out of which 388 for Ukrainian nationals. Last year 4,398
Ukrainian citizens applied for asylum in Romania and they benefit from all the
rights stipulated in the national legislation. The total number of Ukrainians
who entered Romania since the beginning of the invasion is around 3.5 million.
Almost 29% of the accommodation facilities for these refugees have been
occupied.
DAY
The Day celebrating the Union of the Romanian Principalities will be marked by
the representations of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Chisinau, Rome,
Warsaw, Venice, Istanbul and Vienna. The Romanian Cultural Institute in Chisinau
stages a scientific event devoted to 164 years since the Union of the Romanian
Principalities – Moldova and Wallachia. The Romanian Institute of Culture and
Humanistic Research in Venice is staging a conference meant to emphasize the
cordial Romanian-Italian relations during the rule of Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1859-1866)
and the symmetric destiny of the two peoples in the process of completing their
national unity. The Academia di Romania in Rome is also celebrating the Union
day with a film screening about the portrait of Romanian ruler Alexandru Ioan
Cuza made by photographer Carol Popp of Szathmari. The Romanian Cultural
Institute in Warsaw will be screening on the Youtube platform a film with
Polish subtitles entitled ‘The 1859 Union of the Romanian Principalities’
directed by Radu Gaina. The Romanian Cultural institutes in Istanbul and Vienna
are also screening films about the aforementioned union and the personality of
ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza.
FAIR Romania boasts a national stand at the
International travel Fair taking place in Madrid until Sunday. The stand has
been developed by the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Tourism jointly with
several field associations and is promoting cultural trips, rural tourism and
city-break packages. Among other things, the Romanian programme also includes
meetings with relevant players from the public and private tourist sector with
the view to introducing Romania’s touristic potential to Spain. At the same
time, the fair is a good opportunity of promoting the city of Timisoara as
European Capital of Culture in 2023.
TENNIS Romanian tennis player Gabriela Ruse and her Ukrainian partner
Marta Kostyuc have qualified for the round of 16 of the women’s doubles in
Australian Open after their 3-6, 7-6, 6-0 win against Nicole Martinez of the
USA and Ellen Perez of Australia in Melbourne on Saturday. Ruse and Kostyuk
will be next taking on the winners of the game pitching the Czechs Miriam
Kolodziejova and Marketa Vondrousova to Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil and Shuai
Zhang of China. Also in the round of 16, the
Romanian-Swiss pair made up of Monica Niculescu and Viktorija Golubic
will be taking either on the fourth-seeded pair made up of Storm Hunter of Australia
and Elise Mertens of Belgium or Timea Babos of Hungary and Kristina Mladenovic
of France.
AID
The European Commission has approved a 44 million euro assistance scheme for
the cattle breeders in Romania. The government in Bucharest has proposed this
support scheme against the backdrop of the war Russia is presently waging on
Ukraine. The aforementioned scheme consists of direct grants aimed at
offsetting the effects of the latest price hikes in energy, fuel and fodder and
helping the farmers to overcome the financial difficulties caused by the
present geo-political crisis. The aid, which doesn’t exceed 250 thousand euro
per farmer, will be granted until December 31st this year.
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