MEDAL Romanian swimmer David Popovici won gold in the 200
\nmeter freestyle race of the European Aquatics Championships in Rome. Popvici,
\n17, the world’s en titre champion, ended the race in one minute, 42 seconds and
\n97 hundredths, a new world and European record. We recall that Popovici also
\nwalked away with gold from the 100 and 200 meter freestyle races of the World
\nChampionships in Budapest. The Romanian swimmer also got the title on Saturday
\nnight in the 100 meter freestyle race with a new world record of 46 seconds and
\n86 hundredths. The Romanian swimmer is also expected to run in the 400 meter
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BUDGET The government in Bucharest is this week preparing the first budget adjustment
\nin 2022, which has been described by the country’s Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca
\nas positive. The Ministries of Finance, Labour and European Projects are to get
\nmore money and so are the Ministries of Healthcare, Energy, Transport, Justice
\nand Agriculture. The Ministries of the Interior, the Environment and Culture have
\nseen their funds trimmed as Finance Minister Adrian Caciu has announced that a
\nkey priority are the measures the Executive has taken in order to boost the economy
\nand support the citizens against the backdrop of a soaring inflation rate. Among
\nthe aforementioned measures there are a support scheme aimed at offsetting
\ngrowing prices in gas and electricity, state subsidies for fuel consumption in
\nagriculture as well as credits for farmers. Under the new measures consolidated
\nbudget deficit is estimated to exceed 16 billion euros, which account for 5.8%
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EXAM Roughly 35 thousand students are presently taking the national
\nbaccalaureate exam in the autumn session, which kicks off today. 22 thousand of
\nthem have graduated this year and the exam’s final results are to be made
\npublic on September 3rd. The success rate in the first session of this exam
\nheld in July stood at 75% being the highest in the past 10 years. <\/p>\n
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BORDER Over 1, 500, 000 people, Romanian and foreign
\nnationals, have crossed Romania’s borders over August 12th and 15th the General
\nBorder Police Inspectorate has announced today. The most intense traffic has
\nbeen reported at Romania’s border with Hungary. 13 thousand Ukrainian nationals
\nentered Romania on Monday 0.2% more than in the previous day, which brings up to
\n2 million the number of refugees that have crossed into Romania since the
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\nseparatist court in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, has charged five foreign
\nnationals, including a Swede, a Croat and a Brit, captured fighting alongside
\nthe Ukrainian forces with being mercenaries. According to Russian media the
\nthree could face a possible death sentence. We recall that authorities in
\nDontesk in June sentenced to death two British citizens and a Moroccan but
\ndidn’t apply the sentence yet. According to some reports, Ukrainian artillery
\nhas struck the headquarters of Russia’s shadowy Wagner paramilitary group of
\nmercenaries in eastern Ukraine. The Wagner group was deployed to Crimea and
\nUkraine’s Donbas region in 2014, when Russia-backed forces ousted Ukrainian
\nsoldiers from areas they later declared to be part of Russia. Wagner units have
\nalso been deployed to Syria, Libya, Mali and the Central African Republic.
\nWestern intelligence links the group to Russian oligarch Yevgheny Prigozhin,
\nwho was dubbed Putin’s chef as his catering business has long helped President
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