{"id":103709,"date":"2019-08-16T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-16-2019-update-103709.html"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:35:08","slug":"august-16-2019-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/august-16-2019-update-id103709.html","title":{"rendered":"August 16, 2019 UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tiganesti transmitter <\/strong>&#8211;  The short wave transmitter located in Tiganesti, near Bucharest, which broadcasts RRI\u2019s programs, has been provisionally mended by RADIOCOM, the broadcasting service provider. Therefore, you can tune in again to RRI\u2019s broadcasts on the short wave frequencies announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nominations<\/strong> &#8212; The Romanian PM Viorica Dancila announced that she would forward next week to President Klaus Iohannis her proposals for the ministries whose interim leadership expired on August 15. The PM said the nominations for the vacant positions of deputy prime minister and minister will be discussed in a meeting of the Social Democratic Party\u2019s executive committee before being forwarded to the president of the state. At present, Romania has interim ministers at the helm of the education and interior ministries and an interim deputy prime minister for economic issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vote<\/strong> &#8212; As many as 9 thousand Romanians from aboard have registered for the postal vote through the portal <a href=http:\/\/www.votstrainatate.ro\/>www.votstrainatate.ro<\/a>, 20 days after the website was launched &#8212; the Permanent Electoral Authority has announced. According to a communiqu\u00e9 the Authority made public on Friday, the figure exceeds the total number of registrations for the postal vote reported at the 2016 parliamentary elections. The website was created by the Permanent Electoral Authority to have a better record of the Romanians who left the country and to helpe them be better informed in relation to the voting process in the run up to the November presidential election. The Ministry for the Romanians abroad has announced that over 5 million and a half Romanians have left the country. Together with the Romanians in the historical communities, the total number of Romanians living outside the country\u2019s borders nears 10 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BRUA<\/strong> &#8212; The BRUA gas pipeline that will convey gas from the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea to Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria will be finalized in December 2020, with a one-year delay. The information is carried by the Transgaz company\u2019s financial report for the first 6 months of the year. Last month the economy ministry announced that Transgaz already finalized half of the pipeline and that the three compressor stations are 80%-90% completed. Phase I of the BRUA project needs a total investment of almost 500 million Euros. The EU provided a grant of 179 million Euros for building this gas pipeline. The Romanian state, through the economy ministry, holds almost 60% of the shares in Transgaz. The rest are traded on the stock exchange.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greece weather<\/strong> &#8212; All the Romanians who have asked for the support of Romania\u2019s diplomatic corps officials from Greece were brought back on the continent safe and sound from Samothrace &#8212; Samothraki island, shows a communiqu\u00e9 of the Romanian Foreign Ministry issued on Friday. No other requests for help have been reported at the Romanian embassy in Athens or at Romania\u2019s General Consulate in Thessaloniki. Greek authorities have announced the situation on the island is back to normal. As many as 1,500 tourists of whom lots of Romanians remained stranded for a week on the island of Samothrace in northern Greece after several means of transport linking the island to the continent ran out of order because of the bad weather. (translation by L. 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