Romania’s prime minister Victor Ponta and his Serb counterpart
\nAleksandar Vucic had talks on Friday in Belgrade about the progress of the
\ncooperation projects agreed at the three-party talks held earlier this year in
\nCraiova, southern Romania, and the inflow of refugees, said the government in
\nBucharest. Special emphasis was placed on projects in the field of energy,
\ntransport and regional development. The two prime ministers also agreed to
\ncontinue joint efforts to prevent and combat human trafficking in the region
\nand pay special attention to the European initiatives aimed at an efficient
\nmanagement of the refugee crisis. <\/p>\n
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After
\ndays of protests and chaos, the Hungarian government on Friday night deployed
\ntens of buses to move the migrants from Hungary’s capital Budapest to the
\nAustrian border. Several thousand people have already reached Austria. The
\nAustrian interior ministry expects 10,000 people to reach Austria on Saturday.
\nGerman chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany can cope with a record number of
\nrefugees and migrants this year without raising taxes and without jeopardising
\nits budget balance, writes Reuters news agency. More than 100,000 asylum seekers entered Germany in August
\nand around 800,000 more people are expected to enter this year, four times more
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Romania drew nil all against Hungary on Friday in the preliminary games
\nahead of the 2016 European Football Championship. As a result, Romania no
\nlonger top Group F. The leaders are now Northern Ireland, who defeated the
\nFaeroe Islands 3:1 and have one point more than Romania. On Monday at home,
\nRomania will face Greece, who are at the bottom of the group, while Northern
\nIreland meet Hungary, also at home. Romania last time qualified for the
\nEuropean Championship in 2008, when it failed to get past the group stage. In
\nanother development in football, Romania’s Under-21 lost at home nil-2 against
\nBulgaria in a qualifying game for the European Under-21 Championship in 2017.
\nOn Tuesday, Romania’s Under-21 will face Armenia in Yerevan. <\/p>\n
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Second-seed
\nSimona Halep of Romania today faces Shelby Rogers of the US in the third round
\nof the US Open, the last Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year. On Friday in
\nthe men’s doubles, the third seeded Romanian-Dutch pair Horia Tecau and
\nJean-Julien Roger defeated the German-Austrian pair Andre Begemann and Oliver
\nMarach. In the women’s doubles, the all-Romanian pair Irina Begu and Raluca
\nOlaru qualified for the first time in the fourth round at the US Open after
\ndefeating the all-Spanish pair Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro. <\/p>\n
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Romania’s rugby team today face
\nTonga in the last test match ahead of the World Cup beginning on the 18th
\nof September in England. Romania are in Pool D, along with France, Ireland,
\nCanada and Italy. Romania’s rugby team has taken part in all Rugby World Cups
\nheld so far, but never got past the pool stage. <\/p>\n
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American pianist Murray Perahia and the famous <\/span>Staatskapelle
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\nDresden conducted by Christian Thielemann are the highlights of day 7 of the
\nGeorge Enescu Festival under way in Bucharest until the 20th of
\nSeptember. One of the biggest in Europe, the festival brings together more than
\n3,000 Romanian and international musicians, including important orchestras such
\nas the Royal Concertgebouw
\nAmsterdam, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and
\nthe London Symphony Orchestra. Tens of indoor, as well as open air concerts are
\nheld throughout the festival. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n