September 25, 2016 UPDATE
Four Romanian troops wounded in patrol mission in Afghanistan
Newsroom, 25.09.2016, 20:00
AFGHANISTAN – Four Romanian military were wounded in Afghanistan on Sunday, but their condition is stable, the Romanian Defence Ministry has announced. The four were members of the White Sharks Force Protection Battalion, deployed in Afghanistan this August. The troops were on a patrol mission in the province of Kandahar, when an improvised explosive device went off. After securing the area, the soldiers were given first aid and were taken to the military hospital at the Kandahar air base.
MIGRATION – Romania is the second-largest contributor, after Germany, to FRONTEX missions, the Interior Minister Ioan-Dragoş Tudorache said at an international summit on “Migration along the Balkan Route held on Saturday in Vienna. In 2016, 365 Romanian border police took part in such missions. Until the end of the year, 14 border police troops will be part of a joint mission to support the Bulgarian authorities, in which EU countries have increased the resources deployed on Bulgarias land borders with Turkey and Serbia. On the sidelines of the meeting in Vienna, Minister Ioan-Dragoş Tudorache discussed with his Serbian counterpart Nebojsa Stefanovici aspects related to the cooperation on the common border with respect to migrant groups and to the need to implement the EU – Serbia readmission agreement. Bucharest reiterated its interest in organising joint Romanian-Serb border patrols as soon as possible. Attending the meeting in Vienna were EU member states and Western Balkan countries affected by the migration crisis over the past year, namely Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and Hungary. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel pleaded for stepping up efforts to curb illegal migration.
PROTESTS – In Romania, penitentiary workers around the country will initiate protests on Monday, the head of a relevant trade union has announced. The demands include the improvement of working conditions, the employment of an adequate number of staff, addressing salary imbalances and the resignation of the Justice Minister, Raluca Pruna, accused of underperformance. The unionists claim the system needs another 8,000 employees.
RadiRo – A classical music hit, Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, will be performed on Monday by the Romanian National Radio Orchestra conducted by Cristian Macelaru, as part of the Festival of Radio Orchestras – RadiRo. The Festival will come to an end on Saturday, October 1, and the concerts are also aired live in the European Broadcasting Union network and the Asia-Pacific platform of public and private broadcasters. The representative of the Asia-Pacific broadcasting union, Jawad Mottaghi, estimates that the event hosted by the Radio Concert Hall in Bucharest will reach hundreds of millions of listeners, given that the potential market in that region is 3.5 billion people. Currently at its third edition, RADIRO is the only large-scale European festival exclusively devoted to radio orchestras. It is organised by Radio Romania.
SPORTS – The Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu (55 WTA), was defeated in three sets by Spains Lara Arruabarrena (90 WTA), in the final of the tournament in Seoul on Sunday. In the semi-finals of the competition, Lara Arruabarrena had beaten another Romanian player, Patricia Ţig.
