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Labour Day.<\/strong> Romanians celebrate
\nInternational Labour Day on May 1st immediately after Orthodox
\nEaster, so many took an extra day off to have an extended holiday. Popular
\ndestinations for this period are the Romanian Black Sea coast, where the summer
\nseason has officially opened and which plays host to a whole range of
\nfestivals, car races and concerts. Mamaia and Vama Veche are the busiest
\nresorts again this year. Other popular destinations for the Easter and Labour
\nDay holidays are the Danube Delta and the rural Maramures area in the
\nnorth-west. Extra interior ministry staff have been deployed in places where
\nlarge gatherings of people are expected. Medical units and firefighters are
\nalso on stand-by to prevent accidents, given the large number of outdoor events. \n<\/p>\n

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Weather.<\/strong> Eight
\ncounties in the southern part of the country and the capital Bucharest were hit
\nby storms and torrential rains on Tuesday. More than 1,000 firefighters were
\ndeployed to assist the population and the local authorities, by pumping off the
\nwater from the basements of public buildings and private homes and removing the
\nelectricity poles and trees felled by the wind. In Calarasi county, in the
\nsouth, a tornado of average intensity overturned a bus, crashing it into a
\nnearby field. 12 people were injured. The roofs of some 20 houses were also ripped
\noff. A code yellow alert for strong wind is in place today in 18 counties in
\nthe south and Bucharest. A warning for storms has also been issued for most of
\nthe country and floods are expected in the north and west. <\/p>\n

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Viorica Dancila<\/strong> The Romanian prime minister
\nViorica Dancila is on a two-day visit to Poland. She is taking part in a conference
\nof the heads government of the central and eastern European states that joined
\nthe European Union after 2004, namely Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia,
\nEstonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary. On Thursday,
\nDancila will attend the International March of the Living, an annual
\neducational event involving a walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau, two Nazi
\nextermination camps. In Birkenau, Viorica Dancila will attend a commemorative
\nevent alongside other international leaders, government officials and
\nrepresentatives of religious denominations, student organisations and children. \n<\/p>\n

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Klaus Iohannis.<\/strong> On Friday, Romania’s
\npresident Klaus Iohannis is invited to attend as a guest of honour the State of
\nthe Union conference organised by the European University Institute in
\nFlorence. His participation is connected to Romania’s holding the presidency of
\nthe Council of the European Union. The theme of the conference this year is 21st
\ncentury democracy in Europe, given the upcoming elections for the European
\nParliament. In Florence, president Iohannis is also expected to meet the
\nItalian prime minister Giuseppe Conte. <\/p>\n

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Japan.<\/strong> The Custodian of the Crown of Romania Margareta has congratulated Emperor Naruhito for his succession to the throne of Japan, wishing him success in his important mission in the service of his people. Her Majesty Margareta has met Emperor Naruhito three times in the last 15 years, during royal events in Madrid, Luxembourg and Stockholm. Romania established diplomatic ties with Japan in 1917, during the reigns of King Ferdinand I and Emperor Yoshihito. The first Romanian royal visit to Japan took place in 1920, when crown prince Carol visited Tokyo. Japan’s new emperor, Naruhito, aged 59, ascended to the throne on May 1st, following the abdication, a day earlier, of his father Akihito, aged 85. Naruhito became the 126th emperor in the history of Japan, marking the start of a new Reiwa era. Japan is the oldest continuing hereditary monarchy in the world, going back 2,600 years.<\/p>\n

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Pope visit. <\/strong>The registration deadline for
\nthose who wish to attend Pope Francis’ visit to St. Joseph’s Cathedral in
\nBucharest has been extended until the 15th of May. Around 40,000
\npeople are expected in the area around this Roman-Catholic cathedral. 15
\nscreens will be put in place, as well as two stages for prayer and a religious
\nand artistic programme. Pope Francis will make an apostolic visit to Romania
\nfrom 31st of May until the 2nd of June. He will travel to
\nthe capital Bucharest, to Iasi, the biggest city in the east and home to a
\nsizeable Roman-Catholic community, to Blaj, in the centre, the spiritual
\ncapital of the Romanian Greek-Catholic community, where he will beatify seven
\nbishops who died as martyrs in communist prisons, as well as to the Franciscan
\nmonastery in \u015eumuleu Ciuc, in the centre, in an area with a majority ethnic
\nHungarian population. Hundreds of thousands of people, including from abroad,
\nhave registered online to attend the services held by Pope Francis during his
\nRomanian trip.<\/p>\n


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