{"id":103875,"date":"2019-10-25T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/25-october-2019-103875.html"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:37:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:37:02","slug":"25-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/25-october-2019-id103875.html","title":{"rendered":"25 October, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong class=cms-bold>Army Day.&#13;<br \/>\n<\/strong>Army Day is celebrated today in Romania, with various events being held in&#13;<br \/>\ngarrisons across the country and at memorial sites. Special activities are also&#13;<br \/>\nheld in the theatres of operations abroad where Romanian military are deployed.&#13;<br \/>\nFlowers will be laid at memorial sites celebrating Romanian soldiers in&#13;<br \/>\nAustria, Bosnia and Hertegovina, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Republic of&#13;<br \/>\nMoldova and Hungary. On the 25th of October 1944, the Romanian Army&#13;<br \/>\nfreed northern Transylvania from under Horthyst occupation and continued to&#13;<br \/>\nfight on the territories of Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Austria alongside the&#13;<br \/>\nallied troops, contributing to the great victory of May 9th 1945&#13;<br \/>\nthat marked the end of WWII. Romania&#8217;s strategic priority is and will remain a&#13;<br \/>\nstrong transatlantic relationship and today the army is a professional&#13;<br \/>\ninstitution worthy of its past and its heroes, president Klaus Iohannis said on&#13;<br \/>\nFriday. Acting prime minister Viorica Dancila also said that the high&#13;<br \/>\nprofessional level and human quality of the Romanian soldiers have an essential&#13;<br \/>\ncontribution to consolidating the country&#8217;s defence capacity and its&#13;<br \/>\ninternational reputation as a provider of security. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Exercise.<\/strong> Around 1,400 Romanian and&#13;<br \/>\nforeign military are taking part in the Scorpions Legacy 2019 multinational exercise&#13;<br \/>\nheld between the 25th of October and the 8th of November&#13;<br \/>\nin Cincu, in Brasov county, in the centre, the press office of the&#13;<br \/>\nMultinational Brigade South-East in Craiova said in a statement. The exercise&#13;<br \/>\nis meant to train the staff of this brigade and of the affiliated units in&#13;<br \/>\nBulgaria, Italy and Portugal using computer-assisted command exercises, on the&#13;<br \/>\nground training and tactical exercises. The Multinational Brigade South-East in&#13;<br \/>\nCraiova, southern Romania ensures command of forces deployed in the&#13;<br \/>\nsouth-eastern region of the NATO borders, playing an important role in the&#13;<br \/>\nAlliance&#8217;s collective defence.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Culture statistics. <\/strong>The prices of&#13;<br \/>\ncultural services in Romania have seen the biggest drop in the European Union&#13;<br \/>\nin the last decade, according to figures published by Eurostat. The prices of cultural&#13;<br \/>\nservices such as cinema, museums, theatres and libraries went up in the EU by&#13;<br \/>\n1.7% a year on average between 2010 and 2018, but there are three states where&#13;<br \/>\nthese prices went down: Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania, which has seen a 1.5%&#13;<br \/>\ndrop per year. The Eurostat report also shows that the price of newspapers and&#13;<br \/>\nperiodicals has gone up by 34% in Europe, and that the price of books has grown&#13;<br \/>\nby 9%. Looking at how much people spend on cultural goods and services, Sweden&#13;<br \/>\nis in the first position in the European Union in terms of household expenditure,&#13;<br \/>\nwith 5%, while Romania is the last place with 1.8%. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Laser.<\/strong> A&#13;<br \/>\nconference dedicated to the most powerful laser in the world, which is located&#13;<br \/>\nin Magurele, near Bucharest, known as the Extreme&#13;<br \/>\nLight Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics project (ELI-NP) was held at the Hudson&#13;<br \/>\nInstitute in Washington, DC. The participants included members of the American&#13;<br \/>\nscientific community, the US Department of Energy and the Department of State,&#13;<br \/>\nas well as guests from Romania who are involved in the project in Magurele.&#13;<br \/>\nRomanian ambassador to the US George Cristian Maior said the laser project in&#13;<br \/>\nMagurele expands and consolidates the Romanian-American strategic partnership&#13;<br \/>\nin an area in which both countries have the necessary expertise and potential&#13;<br \/>\nto collaborate. The project was initiated in 2015 and its aim was to build the&#13;<br \/>\nbiggest laser in the world. According to experts, the project paves the way for&#13;<br \/>\ncountless opportunities in the field of scientific research. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong class=cms-bold>Football. <\/strong>The Romanian football&#13;<br \/>\nchampions CFR Cluj won an important victory on Thursday, when they defeated the&#13;<br \/>\nFrench side Rennes 1-nil in the Europa League Group E. In the other group&#13;<br \/>\nmatch, Celtic Glasgow defeated Lazio Rome 2-1 at home. CFR now rank second in&#13;<br \/>\nthe group with 6 points. Celtic are in the first place with 7 points, Lazio are&#13;<br \/>\nin third with 3 points, while Rennes are in the last place with 1 point. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army Day is celebrated today in Romania, with various events held across the country and abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":75903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[31842,29594,29134,31051],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-103875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsflash","tag-army","tag-eurostat","tag-football","tag-magurele"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>25 October, 2019 - Radio Romania International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/25-october-2019-id103875.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"25 October, 2019 - 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