ASYLUM Romania’s immigration department on Friday registered 40 asylum applications.
\nMost of these, 24, were filed by citizens from Bangladesh. The General
\nInspectorate for Immigration has also issued 394 permits for those who applied
\nfor temporary protection, out of which 388 for Ukrainian nationals. Last year 4,398
\nUkrainian citizens applied for asylum in Romania and they benefit from all the
\nrights stipulated in the national legislation. The total number of Ukrainians
\nwho entered Romania since the beginning of the invasion is around 3.5 million.
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\nThe Day celebrating the Union of the Romanian Principalities will be marked by
\nthe representations of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Chisinau, Rome,
\nWarsaw, Venice, Istanbul and Vienna. The Romanian Cultural Institute in Chisinau
\nstages a scientific event devoted to 164 years since the Union of the Romanian
\nPrincipalities – Moldova and Wallachia. The Romanian Institute of Culture and
\nHumanistic Research in Venice is staging a conference meant to emphasize the
\ncordial Romanian-Italian relations during the rule of Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1859-1866)
\nand the symmetric destiny of the two peoples in the process of completing their
\nnational unity. The Academia di Romania in Rome is also celebrating the Union
\nday with a film screening about the portrait of Romanian ruler Alexandru Ioan
\nCuza made by photographer Carol Popp of Szathmari. The Romanian Cultural
\nInstitute in Warsaw will be screening on the Youtube platform a film with
\nPolish subtitles entitled ‘The 1859 Union of the Romanian Principalities’
\ndirected by Radu Gaina. The Romanian Cultural institutes in Istanbul and Vienna
\nare also screening films about the aforementioned union and the personality of
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FAIR Romania boasts a national stand at the
\nInternational travel Fair taking place in Madrid until Sunday. The stand has
\nbeen developed by the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Tourism jointly with
\nseveral field associations and is promoting cultural trips, rural tourism and
\ncity-break packages. Among other things, the Romanian programme also includes
\nmeetings with relevant players from the public and private tourist sector with
\nthe view to introducing Romania’s touristic potential to Spain. At the same
\ntime, the fair is a good opportunity of promoting the city of Timisoara as
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TENNIS Romanian tennis player Gabriela Ruse and her Ukrainian partner
\nMarta Kostyuc have qualified for the round of 16 of the women’s doubles in
\nAustralian Open after their 3-6, 7-6, 6-0 win against Nicole Martinez of the
\nUSA and Ellen Perez of Australia in Melbourne on Saturday. Ruse and Kostyuk
\nwill be next taking on the winners of the game pitching the Czechs Miriam
\nKolodziejova and Marketa Vondrousova to Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil and Shuai
\nZhang of China. Also in the round of 16, the
\nRomanian-Swiss pair made up of Monica Niculescu and Viktorija Golubic
\nwill be taking either on the fourth-seeded pair made up of Storm Hunter of Australia
\nand Elise Mertens of Belgium or Timea Babos of Hungary and Kristina Mladenovic
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AID
\nThe European Commission has approved a 44 million euro assistance scheme for
\nthe cattle breeders in Romania. The government in Bucharest has proposed this
\nsupport scheme against the backdrop of the war Russia is presently waging on
\nUkraine. The aforementioned scheme consists of direct grants aimed at
\noffsetting the effects of the latest price hikes in energy, fuel and fodder and
\nhelping the farmers to overcome the financial difficulties caused by the
\npresent geo-political crisis. The aid, which doesn’t exceed 250 thousand euro
\nper farmer, will be granted until December 31st this year. <\/p>\n
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