{"id":104106,"date":"2020-01-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/24-january-2020-104106.html"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:39:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:39:35","slug":"24-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/24-january-2020-id104106.html","title":{"rendered":"24 January, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Celebration.<\/strong>
\nThe 161st anniversary of the Union of the Romanian Principalities of
\nMoldavia and Wallachia is celebrated today across the country. On the 24th of January
\n1859, Alexander Ioan Cuza, who, a week earlier, had been elected ruler of
\nMoldavia, was also voted unanimously by the Electoral Assembly in Bucharest as
\nthe sovereign of Wallachia and thus proclaimed ruler of the United
\nPrincipalities. Cuza’s reign laid the institutional foundations of modern
\nRomania through a number of radical reforms. The civil and criminal codes were
\nadopted, both inspired by the French model, a national army was created,
\nprimary education became obligatory and the first universities were
\nestablished: in Iasi in 1860, and in Bucharest four years later. Cuza was forced
\nto abdicate and go into exile in 1866. He was followed by the future King Carol
\nI from the German princely family of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Carol’s long
\nreign would see Romania obtain its state independence from the Ottoman Empire
\nand regain the south-eastern, Black Sea province of Dobrudja following the Russian-Romanian-Turkish
\nwar of 1877. In 1918, under King Ferdinand, aka The Unifier, the creation of
\nthe Romanian nation state became complete as Transylvania, Banat, Crisana,
\nMaramures, Bukovina and Bessarabia, historical provinces with a majority ethnic
\nRomanian population and which had until then been under the occupation of
\nneighbouring multinational empires, became united with Romania.<\/p>\n

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EU.<\/strong> The Romanian justice minister Catalin Predoiu is attending an informal
\nmeeting of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council held in Zagreb, Croatia.
\nThis is the first ministerial meeting of the Council held during Croatia’s
\npresidency of the Council of the European Union. EU justice ministers are
\ndiscussing the progress made with regard to the strategic guidelines in the
\nfield of freedom, security and justice, judicial education and the importance
\nof judicial networks in the civilian and commercial areas. Talks are also
\nfocusing on cooperation in the civilian and criminal areas, border protection,
\nthe modernisation and digitisation of judicial systems and adjustment to the
\nimpact of artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n

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Romanian
\ndiaspora.<\/strong> <\/strong>The Romanians living abroad are a precious
\nresource and an important component of society, and the Romanian state and
\nauthorities have many responsibilities towards them, said prime minister
\nLudovic Orban on Friday in a statement conveyed to the Convention of Romanians
\nAbroad. The meeting is held at the Parliament in Bucharest and brings together
\nover 300 representatives of the Romanian associative environment abroad, the
\nacademic community, church circles, as well as journalists, writers, diplomats
\nand experts in international relations. Discussions focus, among others, on the
\nway in which the Romanian communities abroad are represented in the Parliament
\nin Bucharest, the status of Romanians on the EU employment market and solutions
\nto encourage them to return to their home country. <\/p>\n

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Brexit.<\/strong> The president
\nof the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the president of the
\nEuropean Council Charles Michel signed the Brexit withdrawal agreement approved
\nby the UK. On Thursday, the agreement became law in the UK after being ratified
\nby the queen, a week before the separation and after more than three years
\nsince the referendum. Prime minister Boris Johnson will officially sign the
\nwithdrawal agreement over the coming days. After being adopted in the UK, the
\nagreement must also be ratified by the European Parliament, on the 29th
\nof January. <\/p>\n

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Coronavirus. <\/strong>The
\nChinese authorities have announced a significant rise in the number of those
\ninfected with the new coronavirus that has already killed 25 people. More than
\n830 people have been infected and ten Chinese cities are in quarantine. The
\nauthorities have cancelled the celebrations of the Chinese New Year in Beijing.
\nThe virus has caused chaos at the most eagerly awaited time of the year in
\nChina. The World Health Organisation has decided not to declare an
\ninternational state of alert. The virus, which appeared in the city of Wuhan,
\nis from the same strain as SARS, which caused the death of 800 people around
\nthe world in 2002 and 2003, and which also appeared in China. Cases of
\ncoronavirus have also been reported in Japan, South Korea, the Philippines,
\nVietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the United States and the
\nChinese territories of Hong Kong and Macao. <\/p>\n

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Tennis. <\/strong>Romania’s Simona Halep, world no. 3
\nin the world, on Saturday faces Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva, world no. 38, in
\nthe third round of the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tennis tournament
\nof the year. It’s for the first time the two face each other on the WTA
\ncircuit. A finalist in Melbourne in 2018, Halep is the only Romanian player
\nstill in competition in the singles. On Friday, the Romanian-Dutch pair Horia Tecau
\nand Jean-Julien Rojer lost to the all-Australian pair Max
\nPurcell and Luke Saville in the second round of the men’s doubles. In the
\nwomen’s doubles, the Romanian-Slovenian pair Raluca Olaru and Dalila Jakupovic
\nlost in the first round to the Hungarian-French pair Timea Babos and Kristina
\nMladenovic. Monica Niculescu is the only Romanian player still playing in
\ncompetition in the doubles. Niculescu, who pairs up with Japan’s Misaki Doi,
\nwill next be facing the all-Japanese pair Nao Hibino and Makoto Ninom in the
\nsecond round. <\/p>\n

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