May 29, 2025
A roundup of local and world news
Newsroom, 29.05.2025, 13:45
TALKS Bucharest is today hosting expert-level talks involving the pro-European parties who are trying to come up with a reliable plan of curbing the country’s budget deficit. The decision of setting up such a group was made during the marathon-talks the country’s new president, Nicusor Dan, held yesterday with Parliament parties in an attempt to forge a new government. According to a communiqué released by the presidential administration, the PSD, PNL, USR, UDMR and the national minorities group understand the gravity of the present financial situation and have voiced their commitment to contributing to a responsible solution.
HUB On Wednesday the European Union advanced the setting up of a maritime security hub at the Black Sea in order to better monitor this region, which it considers strategically important. According to the head of the European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, the new hub will be Europe’s early warning system in the Black Sea. It will enhance situational awareness and help protect critical infrastructure, like offshore installations and subsea cables. Against the background of the Russian military aggression in Ukraine, the EU also wants to increase military mobility by streamlining ports in the region as well as railways, roads and airports to be able to handle heavy military gear. Romania and the United States strengthened their defence strategic partnership yesterday after the country’s minister of economy, Bogdan Ivan, had signed the documents allowing the two countries to produce NATO standard ammunition for artillery and Abrams tanks. Washington’s initiative is part of a foreign 920-million-dollar military support package the US government granted Romania last autumn.
FLOOD Roughly 70 towns and villages in 14 Romanian counties have been affected by heavy rainfalls in the last 24 hours. According to the authorities, special teams have been deployed to several regions in the south, east and center to pump water out of households and remove the fallen trees from the roads. Local authorities have ordered the preventive evacuation of 375 people in four Romanian counties. Road traffic has been restricted on two national roads and blocked on four county roads. Rail traffic has been disrupted on a mountain route in the south of the country. No emergency situations involving the intervention of paramedics or special teams in the affected regions have been reported of late.
DAY The Ministry of National Defence has today been staging in Bucharest and all over the country a series of military ceremonies and religious services on the occasion of Heroes’ Day, a national holiday in Romania. The diplomatic representations and consular offices of Romania abroad are also hosting similar events to the memory of the Romanian soldiers killed in the line of duty in other countries. Bells were tolled in churches all over Romania at noon. The Romanian authorities in 1920 ruled that the Heroes’ Day be celebrated concurrently with the Ascension of Christ, 40 days after his resurrection.
FOOTBALL Romania’s Under-21 footballers have today left for Bad Loipersdorf, in Austria, where they will be training until June 9th. On June 4, the U21 side will be taking on the similar side of Georgia in a friendly, an eleven, which has also qualified for the European Championship in Slovakia. Selector Daniel Pancu has announced a preliminary lineup of 26 players, 9 from abroad and 17 playing for various football sides in Romania. The lineup for the final tournament will be announced on June 4. This has been the fourth participation in a row of Romania’s U21 side in a final tournament. Our footballers are part of group A and they will be up against Italy on June 11, Spain, three days later and Slovakia on June 17. The UEFA European Under-21 Championship will be taking place over June 11 and 28.
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