TENNIS Romanian tennis player Simona Halep who is currently ranking 7th
\nin the world’s standings, on Monday clinched a 6-3, 6-3 win against the
\n15-year-old US challenger Cori Gauff in the round of 16 of the Wimbledon
\ntournament, the third Grand Slam tournament this year. Gauff was the revelation
\nof the present edition of the prestigious competition and before meeting Halep
\nshe had defeated experienced players, including her famous compatriot Venus
\nWilliams. Simona will next take on Shuai Zhang of China on Tuesday. Halep’s
\nbest performance at Wimbledon was the 2014 qualification for the semifinals.
\nAlso on Monday the pair made up of Romanian Horia Tecau and Dutch Jean-Julien
\nRojer qualified for the quarter-finals after Argentinians Horacio Zeballos and
\nMaximo Gonzales had abandoned the game. We recall that Tecau and Rojer won the
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EXAM The baccalaureate pass rate in Romania has this
\nyear been around 73.7%, one percent higher than last year, the country’s Education
\nMinistry has announced. 177 students have got the highest mark, 73 more than
\nlast year, whereas 84 students have been eliminated for fraud or attempted
\nfraud. The highest pass rate has been registered in capital Bucharest and in
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AGREEMENT The Romanian government on Monday signed an agreement with the
\nEuropean Investment Bank through which the latter offers technical assistance
\nfor building three regional hospitals in Iasi, north-eastern Romania, Cluj
\nNapoca in the north-west and Craiova in the south-west. The aforementioned
\nprojects benefit from European funding. According to Romania’s Health Minister
\nSorina Pintea, the agreement has a total value of roughly 12.9 million Euros.
\nIn turn, the bank’s vice-president Andrew McDowell said the expertise of the
\nEIB experts would be transferred to the Romanian personnel with the Project Implementation
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GDP Romania’s GDP went up by 1.3% in real terms in the first
\nquarter of the year as against the last quarter of 2018 and is by 5% bigger as
\ncompared with the same period of last year, according to provisional data made
\npublic on Monday by the National Institute of Statistics. Romanian authorities
\nestimate a 5.5% increase in Romania’s economy this year, while international
\nfinancial institutions have put it at under 4% – the European Commission at
\n3.3%, the IMF at 3.1%, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development at
\n3.2% and the World Bank at 3.6%. On the other hand, the net medium salary stood
\naround 660 in May, down against the month before. The IT and cloth
\nmanufacturing sectors reported the biggest salaries. <\/p>\n
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