Politics.<\/strong> The National Council of
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Tennis.<\/strong> The Romanian tennis player Mihaela Buzarnescu, world no. 24,
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\nthe Liberal Party in opposition met on Saturday in Bucharest, with the
\npresident of the country Klaus Iohannis in attendance. The latter held a speech
\nin which he attacked the ruling Social Democratic Party. He said the general
\nsituation in Romania is very bad and that normality must be reinstated. All
\nopinion polls published in recent months show that 80% of Romanians believe the
\ncountry is heading in the wrong direction, president Iohannis also said. He
\naccused the Social Democrats’ leader Liviu Dragnea and his entourage of using
\nthe public office to advance their own agenda and escape justice. He also
\ncalled on the Liberal Party to stay united and strong, saying a rational
\nalternative is needed. The president’s attending the Liberals’ meeting comes
\namid conflicts within the party which the president tried to reconcile this
\nweek, when the invited the party leadership for talks. The Liberals’ meeting
\nalso features a presentation of the activity report of the party’s executive
\nbureau and the criteria, the procedure and the calendar for the nomination of
\nthe party’s candidates to the European Parliament elections. A document called
\nThe Principles of Liberal Good Governance is also to be debated and adopted. <\/p>\n
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\npeople have died in Spain because of a heatwave that continues to affect
\nwestern Europe, from north to south. The Romanian foreign ministry says the
\nauthorities from Spain, Portugal and Croatia have issued red and yellow code
\nalerts for heat. In some regions in Greece and Portugal there is a high risk of
\nfire. A reading of 45 degrees Celsius was recorded in Alvega, a Portuguese city
\nlocated 150 km from the capital Lisbon. Scorching heat is also reported in
\nSpain, with 40 degrees Celsius in Madrid and 42 in Seville. Greece says there
\nis a high risk of fire on the islands in the north of the Aegean Sea, Central
\nGreece and the Attica peninsula. The most devastating fires in recent decades
\ncaused the death of 88 people near Athens. A red code alert is in place in
\nCroatia in several regions in the south and a yellow code in the Zagreb region,
\nin the north-west. Very high temperatures have also been recorded in Austria,
\nItaly, France, Britain, Holland and Belgium. In Sweden, which had the hottest
\nJuly in the last 250 years, a glacier has melted. Meteorologists say new record
\nhigh temperatures may be recorded over the news few days in Europe. The current
\nrecord is 48 degrees Celsius in Greece in 1977. <\/p>\n
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\nStates George Maior had talks with the US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry about
\ngas exploitation in the Black Sea and exports to other countries via the BRUA
\npipeline. Previously, Hungary unilaterally decided to shut down its section of
\nthe pipeline and no longer to invest in interconnection with Austria as initially
\nplanned. Maior and Perry also discussed other strategic projects in the Black
\nSea. George Maior said Romania has the historical, geographic, economic and
\nstrategic potential to become a regional energy hub. BRUA is considered to be a
\nproject that could be used to transport gas from the Black Sea to Austria and
\nthat could bring significant sums to Romania from both gas exploitation and
\ntransport and transit fees. The national company Transgaz began building the Romanian
\nsection of the pipeline two months ago. <\/p>\n
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\nUntold, the biggest electronic music festival in Romania is under way in the
\nTransylvanian city of Cluj Napoca. The festival’s ten different stages feature
\n250 acts over the course of four days, until Sunday. The main stage is twice as
\nbig as last year, measuring 80 metres in length and 31 metres in height. The
\nline-up includes acts such as The Chainsmokers, Armin van Buuren, Tiesto,
\nTujamo and Afrojack. For the first time, the concerts are broadcast live on
\nYouTube. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected in Cluj for the festival,
\nincluding from abroad. More than 1,100 gendarme and police forces,
\nfire-fighters and medical staff are ensuring public order and safety. Dozens of
\nvideo surveillance cameras are in place. <\/p>\n
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\ntoday faces Belgium’s Elise Mertens, world no. 15, in the semifinals of the
\nWTA tournament in San Jose, California, worth almost 800,000 dollars in prize
\nmoney. Last time they met, in January, Mertens defeated Buzarnescu in the final
\nof the Hobart tournament. The Romanian player has won 36 matches this year.
\nThis is her fifth singles semifinal after Hobart, Strasbourg, Prague and
\nBucharest. Buzarnescu also plays the doubles semifinals in San Jose, where she
\npairs up with Britain’s Heather Watson. The two will face the Ukrainian sisters
\nLyudmila<\/em>and Nadiya<\/em> Kichenok. <\/p>\n